Time Sharing Option Contracts in the North of England

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 161 131 218
Rank change year-on-year -30 +87 +14
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 5 54 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.15% 1.13% 0.034%
As % of the System Software category 0.99% 9.66% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 34 2
10th Percentile £336 £403 -
25th Percentile £360 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -9.47% +17.28%
75th Percentile £486 £484 £488
90th Percentile £538 £588 -
England median daily rate £388 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -9.88% -9.47% -5.00%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in the North of England

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the North of England

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Time Sharing Option in the North of England

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the North of England

Time Sharing Option
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 Time Sharing Option within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire -42 4 £483 +12.21% 3
North West - 1 £320 -
Time Sharing Option
England

Time Sharing Option
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Programmer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (60.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JCL
2 4 (80.00%) REXX
3 3 (60.00%) CLIST
4 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) ACF2
1 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (20.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft