zOS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

IBM z/OS
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring zOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing zOS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Operating Systems
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 104 112 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 17.90% 24.56% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 128
10th Percentile £165 £280 £250
25th Percentile £263 £399 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.37% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £547 £575 £675
90th Percentile £575 - £741
East of England median daily rate £275 £415 £450
% change year-on-year -33.73% -7.78% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 12
10th Percentile £41.25 £60.13 £24.75
25th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £73.75
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £65.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -34.62% +160.00% -3.38%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing zOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

zOS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

zOS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing zOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing zOS

zOS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
zOS
East of England

zOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) zSecure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM