Time Sharing Option Contracts in Manchester

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
North West median daily rate £320 - -

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 132 287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 14.36% 8.70% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 114 205
10th Percentile £199 £281 £300
25th Percentile £364 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £545 £596 £594
90th Percentile £575 £694 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 15
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.07
25th Percentile £40.81 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.75 £12.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +364.58% -56.36% +51.81%
75th Percentile £73.81 - £65.00
90th Percentile £82.78 - -
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft