zOS Contracts in the City of London

IBM z/OS
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 169 192
Rank change year-on-year +50 +23 -41
Contract jobs citing zOS 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.085% 0.024%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.76% 0.61% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £575 £700 -
90th Percentile - £730 -
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

All Operating Systems
City of London

zOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 284 490 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.99% 13.83% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 353 422
10th Percentile £192 £160 £196
25th Percentile £315 £270 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +2.58% +5.86%
75th Percentile £674 £675 £622
90th Percentile £741 £738 £700
Central London median daily rate £450 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +42.86% +76.58%
75th Percentile £25.38 £59.38 £31.38
90th Percentile £26.35 £74.00 £67.25
Central London median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -35.00% +42.86% +76.58%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the City of London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in the City of London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in the City of London

zOS
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 1 (20.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
1 2 (40.00%) Programmer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) DB2 Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (20.00%) COBOL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) NFS
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (20.00%) Brocade
2 1 (20.00%) CA
2 1 (20.00%) Dell