MVS Contracts in the North of England

IBM MVS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring MVS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MVS over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 168 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing MVS 2 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.052% 0.24% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.34% 1.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £444 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +57.14%

All Operating Systems
North of England

MVS 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 596 666 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.51% 14.65% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 433 556
10th Percentile £181 £178 £166
25th Percentile £263 £283 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +4.65%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £576
90th Percentile £612 £698 £675
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 83 67
10th Percentile £13.00 - £13.16
25th Percentile £13.90 £10.95 £16.38
Median hourly rate £17.47 £16.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% -25.58% +16.22%
75th Percentile £18.87 £19.59 £32.50
90th Percentile £19.75 £31.75 £47.33
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.13 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.46% -40.88% +91.01%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing MVS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for MVS in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MVS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for MVS in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MVS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for MVS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
North West - 2 £551 - 4
MVS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) IMS/DB
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) PL/1
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Syncsort