zOS Contracts in London

IBM z/OS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring zOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited zOS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 363 463
Rank change year-on-year +21 +100 +104
Contract jobs citing zOS 12 26 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.15% 0.13%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.80% 1.22% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 9
10th Percentile £325 £420 £493
25th Percentile £344 £455 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £474 £569 £650
90th Percentile £561 £595 £681
England median daily rate £454 £459 £585
% change year-on-year -1.14% -21.54% +15.84%

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 1,506 2,123 3,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.00% 11.90% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 1,512 2,829
10th Percentile £250 £200 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £641 £627 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 70 61
10th Percentile £17.72 £15.40 £18.93
25th Percentile £21.89 £18.93 £22.63
Median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -41.08% +52.41%
75th Percentile £32.75 £33.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £53.80 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -42.11% +76.74%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in London.

Daily rate trend for zOS in London

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing zOS in London.

Hourly rate trend for zOS in London

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 30 April 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 +7 3 £350 -36.36% 1
zOS
England

zOS
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 7 (58.33%) CICS
2 4 (33.33%) SAS
3 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Apigee
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Programmer
1 6 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 6 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Assembler Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Integration Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) ISPF
2 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) JWT
3 1 (8.33%) Kafka
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) WSDL
3 1 (8.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) DataPower
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) MVS
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Functional Programming
4 1 (8.33%) Microservices
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) OOP
4 1 (8.33%) Security Management
4 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) SOA
4 1 (8.33%) Software Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Software Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) JCL
2 8 (66.67%) REXX
3 7 (58.33%) Assembly Language
4 4 (33.33%) CLIST
5 3 (25.00%) Java
6 2 (16.67%) COBOL
6 2 (16.67%) SQL
7 1 (8.33%) HLASM
7 1 (8.33%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (8.33%) ACF2
2 1 (8.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (8.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (8.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) IBM
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Syncsort