zOS Contracts in Edinburgh

IBM z/OS
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring zOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited zOS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 66 110
Rank change year-on-year +4 +44 +18
Contract jobs citing zOS 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.74% 0.15%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.10% 6.98% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £513 £500 -
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -

All Operating Systems
Edinburgh

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 82 86 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.12% 10.55% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 54 152
10th Percentile £170 £202 £160
25th Percentile £197 £340 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £454
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% +10.19% +4.61%
75th Percentile £557 £625 £538
90th Percentile £675 £731 £622
Scotland median daily rate £465 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -7.10% +4.38% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.88 £26.00 £35.11
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% -25.95% +75.55%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £26.59 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.10% - +162.50%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in Edinburgh

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for zOS in Edinburgh

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (60.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SNA
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Network Management
1 3 (60.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) REXX
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace