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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 354 400
Rank change year-on-year -15 +46 +138
Contract jobs citing zOS 20 15 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.099% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.30% 0.82% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 2
10th Percentile - £420 £518
25th Percentile £350 £456 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% -11.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £544 £572 £575
90th Percentile £620 £596 £583
England median daily rate £475 £513 £430
% change year-on-year -7.32% +19.19% -18.10%

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 1,540 1,837 2,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.81% 12.12% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,216 2,031
10th Percentile £204 £225 £203
25th Percentile £359 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 17 45
10th Percentile £19.09 £16.15 £18.37
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +7.69% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.83 £104.80 £70.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -56.26% +76.92% +30.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 £615 -
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 8 (40.00%) CICS
2 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 3 (15.00%) SAS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) APPN
1 2 (10.00%) SNA
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) ChangeMan
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Programmer
1 5 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) CICS Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) CICS Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) Mainframe Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Capacity Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) ISPF
1 3 (15.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) JWT
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) OAuth
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) XSLT
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 18 (90.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.00%) DataPower
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.00%) VSAM
4 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) High Availability
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (15.00%) Data Sharing
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (15.00%) Runbook
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
5 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (10.00%) Network Management
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Validation
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.00%) OOP
6 1 (5.00%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) REXX
2 4 (20.00%) Assembly Language
2 4 (20.00%) COBOL
2 4 (20.00%) JCL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) PL/1
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) RACF
2 3 (15.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) CA Endevor
2 3 (15.00%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (10.00%) Control-M
3 2 (10.00%) Tivoli NetView
4 1 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) IBM
2 3 (15.00%) BMC
2 3 (15.00%) Broadcom
2 3 (15.00%) Splunk
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow