MVS Contract Job Trends in London

IBM MVS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London citing MVS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	466	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing MVS	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in London	0.015%	-	-
As % of the Operating Systems category	0.16%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£563	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	-	-
75^th Percentile	£588	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
England median daily rate	£575	£551	-
% change year-on-year	+4.45%	-	-

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 citing operating system skills in London.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing operating system skills	1,820	1,584	1,940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London	9.01%	11.36%	12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted	1,220	1,021	1,265
10^th Percentile	£218	£204	£225
25^th Percentile	£360	£360	£350
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£500	£500
Median % change year-on-year	-5.00%	-	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£600	£619	£625
90^th Percentile	£706	£738	£713
England median daily rate	£475	£450	£475
% change year-on-year	+5.56%	-5.26%	-2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	40	65	19
10^th Percentile	-	£18.99	£21.07
25^th Percentile	£19.50	£21.46	£25.40
Median hourly rate	£26.25	£25.15	£57.50
Median % change year-on-year	+4.37%	-56.26%	+76.92%
75^th Percentile	£51.38	-	£69.88
90^th Percentile	£62.50	£55.05	£102.40
England median hourly rate	£35.00	£23.00	£58.00
% change year-on-year	+52.17%	-60.34%	+48.41%

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 Daily Rate Trend in London

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.

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 15 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Central London	-	1	-	-
MVS England

MVS Top 20 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing MVS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region citing MVS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	IBM	100.0%	3
1	REXX	100.0%	3
3	Batch Processing	66.7%	2
3	Broadcom	66.7%	2
3	Change Management	66.7%	2
3	JCL	66.7%	2
3	zOS	66.7%	2
8	Batch Scheduling	33.3%	1
8	Data Protection	33.3%	1
8	High Availability	33.3%	1
8	Incident Management	33.3%	1
8	ISPF	33.3%	1
8	Migration	33.3%	1
8	Root Cause Analysis	33.3%	1
8	Security Cleared	33.3%	1
8	Task Automation	33.3%	1
8	Time Sharing Option	33.3%	1
8	Tivoli	33.3%	1
8	Tivoli NetView	33.3%	1
8	Workload Management	33.3%	1

MVS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Operating Systems

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	zOS	66.7%	2