MVS Contract Job Trends in London

IBM MVS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring MVS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MVS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £514 £551 -
% change year-on-year -6.63% - -

All Operating Systems
London

MVS 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,693 1,540 2,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.39% 11.47% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 1,013 1,374
10th Percentile £206 £225 £226
25th Percentile £350 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £713 £738 £725
England median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 45 32
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -14.51% -5.54% -33.44%
75th Percentile £26.25 £25.25 £52.44
90th Percentile £56.88 £58.90 £64.19
England median hourly rate £38.00 £25.15 £57.25
% change year-on-year +51.09% -56.07% +22.62%

MVS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

MVS job vacancy trend in London

MVS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MVS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MVS

MVS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MVS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing MVS

MVS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Central London - 1 - -
MVS
England

MVS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (50.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 2 (100.00%) IBM