zOS Contract Job Trends in London

IBM z/OS
England > London

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 347 353
Rank change year-on-year -69 +6 +101
Contract jobs citing zOS 31 14 27
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.83% 0.92% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 16
10th Percentile £320 £319 £400
25th Percentile £350 £356 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £506 £478
Median % change year-on-year -24.74% +6.02% -12.18%
75th Percentile £491 £616 £521
90th Percentile £537 £706 £569
England median daily rate £513 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +13.89% -5.26% -15.56%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,698 1,518 2,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.38% 11.46% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 998 1,380
10th Percentile £206 £225 £231
25th Percentile £350 £361 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -3.25% -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 25 45 32
10th Percentile £18.26 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -12.52% -5.54% -33.44%
75th Percentile £27.00 £25.25 £52.44
90th Percentile £57.65 £58.90 £64.19
England median hourly rate £35.79 £25.15 £57.25
% change year-on-year +42.30% -56.07% +20.11%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

zOS job vacancy trend in London

zOS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing zOS

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in London over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in London

zOS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing zOS

zOS
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 zOS within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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 -19 4 - -
zOS
England

zOS
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 16 (51.61%) CICS
2 7 (22.58%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (12.90%) Serverless
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) APPN
2 2 (6.45%) SNA
3 1 (3.23%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) SMS
3 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (35.48%) Db2
2 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.45%) OLTP
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) ChangeMan
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 8 (25.81%) Banking
2 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Finance
4 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Middleware Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) CICS Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Network Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 3 (9.68%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Administrator
5 1 (3.23%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.23%) DB2 DBA
5 1 (3.23%) DB2 Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) DBA
5 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) ISPF
2 4 (12.90%) JSON
2 4 (12.90%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) SOAP
2 4 (12.90%) Web Services
2 4 (12.90%) WSDL
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (83.87%) Mainframe
2 4 (12.90%) DataPower
2 4 (12.90%) Online Banking
3 3 (9.68%) VSAM
4 2 (6.45%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.45%) Replication
5 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) MVS
1 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (25.81%) Batch Processing
2 8 (25.81%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (22.58%) Integration Patterns
4 6 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (12.90%) SOA
7 3 (9.68%) Agile
7 3 (9.68%) Change Management
7 3 (9.68%) DevOps
7 3 (9.68%) High Availability
7 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (6.45%) AI
8 2 (6.45%) Capacity Management
8 2 (6.45%) Data Modelling
8 2 (6.45%) Database Security
8 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.45%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) JCL
2 5 (16.13%) Python
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) COBOL
3 4 (12.90%) REXX
3 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) QA
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) RACF
2 2 (6.45%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (3.23%) ACF2
3 1 (3.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) CA Endevor
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Grafana
2 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 20 (64.52%) IBM
2 3 (9.68%) Broadcom
3 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) Splunk
4 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) EMC