Time Sharing Option Contracts in the North West

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.32% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.93% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £280 - -
25th Percentile £302 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile £513 - -
England median daily rate £363 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -23.68% - +4.11%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 239 244 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 11.02% 9.63% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 172 348
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £313 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £579 £575
90th Percentile £615 £670 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 31
10th Percentile - £15.50 £14.00
25th Percentile £76.25 £16.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £82.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +365.58% +1.26% -
75th Percentile £88.75 £28.75 £27.38
90th Percentile - £61.13 £47.83
England median hourly rate £35.57 £22.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +61.69% -46.99% +106.16%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option 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 Time Sharing Option in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Time Sharing Option in the North West over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Time Sharing Option in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option 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 Time Sharing Option within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 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
Manchester - 5 £313 -
Lancashire - 2 £551 - 4
Time Sharing Option
England

Time Sharing Option
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) IMS/DB
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (71.43%) IBM Mainframe
2 5 (71.43%) VSAM
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) zOS
2 2 (28.57%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
1 5 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (71.43%) Problem Management
1 5 (71.43%) SDLC
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Release Management
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JCL
2 5 (71.43%) CLIST
2 5 (71.43%) REXX
3 2 (28.57%) PL/1
4 1 (14.29%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) CA Endevor
2 5 (71.43%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Syncsort
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft