z/OS Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

IBM z/OS Specialist
England > London

As of 9 September 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median IBM z/OS Specialist daily rate in London.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 452 - 386
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a z/OS Specialist 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile - - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £470
75th Percentile - - £484
90th Percentile - - £486
England median daily rate - - £465

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 18,969 12,439 15,125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 92.80% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,240 8,323 10,236
10th Percentile £363 £325 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 207 180
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.97 £23.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.49 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% -8.06% -8.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.38 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.05% +5.56%

z/OS Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'z/OS Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

z/OS Specialist job vacancy trend in London

z/OS Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for z/OS Specialist job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for z/OS Specialist job vacancies in London

z/OS Specialist Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 9 September 2026, z/OS Specialist contract job roles required 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 featuring z/OS Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Db2
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (50.00%) REXX
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics

z/OS Specialist Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Db2
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow