Time Sharing Option Contracts in the North of England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Time Sharing Option skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 216 236
Rank change year-on-year +90 +20 -54
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 54 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.14% 0.034% 0.028%
As % of the System Software category 9.47% 0.23% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 2 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £415 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +17.28% +15.71%
75th Percentile £484 £488 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% +42.86%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Time Sharing Option is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 570 877 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.01% 14.99% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 665 748
10th Percentile £170 £183 £150
25th Percentile £266 £305 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £650 £653 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 41 54
10th Percentile - £13.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +48.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £17.83 £65.00 £19.47
90th Percentile £42.88 £65.75 £23.00
England median hourly rate £21.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -47.50% +110.53% +2.43%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +72 54 £430 -9.47% 1
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 20 (37.04%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.78%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (74.07%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (38.89%) Programmer
2 20 (37.04%) Systems Programmer
2 20 (37.04%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 16 (29.63%) Storage Manager
4 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) z/OS Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Hardware Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Consultant
8 1 (1.85%) Hardware Specialist
8 1 (1.85%) IBM Storage Specialist
8 1 (1.85%) Storage Specialist
8 1 (1.85%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (66.67%) ISPF
2 15 (27.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 14 (25.93%) Data Centre
3 13 (24.07%) LPAR
4 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 54 (100.00%) zOS
2 18 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Risk Management
2 21 (38.89%) Performance Monitoring
3 18 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 17 (31.48%) Agile
4 17 (31.48%) Problem Management
5 14 (25.93%) Project Management
6 13 (24.07%) Cost Management
6 13 (24.07%) Software Testing
6 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (1.85%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) JCL
2 45 (83.33%) REXX
3 16 (29.63%) Assembly Language
4 15 (27.78%) Python
5 10 (18.52%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 18 (33.33%) NFS
2 15 (27.78%) ACF2
2 15 (27.78%) RACF
3 13 (24.07%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (24.07%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 20 (37.04%) OMEGAMON
2 18 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (27.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) IBM
2 38 (70.37%) Broadcom
3 21 (38.89%) CA
4 19 (35.19%) Splunk
5 18 (33.33%) Brocade
5 18 (33.33%) Dell