Time Sharing Option Contracts in the City of London

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £385 - -
Central London median daily rate £350 - -

All System Software Skills
City of London

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 186 236 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.59% 10.74% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 174 294
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £405 £388 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile £701 £743 £788
Central London median daily rate £531 £475 £561
% change year-on-year +11.68% -15.37% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in the City of London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the City of London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the City of London

Time Sharing Option
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) CLIST
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM