z/OS Engineer Contracts in Halifax

IBM z/OS Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median IBM z/OS Engineer daily rate in Halifax is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a z/OS Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Halifax 5.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Halifax. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Halifax with a recognized job title 18 9 25
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £406 - £449
25th Percentile £500 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £330 £550
Median % change year-on-year +55.30% -40.00% +15.79%
75th Percentile £550 £434 £588
90th Percentile £575 £496 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £15.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

z/OS Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, z/OS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Halifax region featuring z/OS Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery

z/OS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Halifax 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM