Time Sharing Option Contracts in London

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Time Sharing Option 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 346 388 491
Rank change year-on-year +42 +103 +98
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.017% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.51% 0.17% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -9.52% -9.09%
75th Percentile £415 £488 £538
90th Percentile £439 - -
England median daily rate £388 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -9.88% -9.47% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
London

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in London.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in London.

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in London

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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 Time Sharing Option within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London - 3 £350 - 1
Time Sharing Option
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (57.14%) SAS
2 3 (42.86%) CICS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) DB2
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Programmer
1 6 (85.71%) Systems Programmer
1 6 (85.71%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Presales
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Security Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JCL
1 7 (100.00%) REXX
2 5 (71.43%) Assembly Language
3 4 (57.14%) CLIST
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Syncsort