MVS Contracts in the North West

IBM MVS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MVS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.093% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.65% - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 307 351 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.28% 13.22% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 224 310
10th Percentile £179 £181 £175
25th Percentile £263 £285 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -1.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £520 £588 £570
90th Percentile £625 £843 £651
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 68 46
10th Percentile - - £13.98
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £16.55
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -39.62% +32.50%
75th Percentile - £19.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £18.87 £37.15 £48.76
England median hourly rate £23.00 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% -41.18% +93.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for MVS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for MVS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Lancashire - 2 £551 - 4
MVS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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