Time Sharing Option Contracts in Scotland

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 160 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 6 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.14% -
As % of the System Software category 1.99% 0.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
UK median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% +6.38%

All System Software Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 302 424 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 13.60% 14.86% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 316 274
10th Percentile £188 £203 £158
25th Percentile £324 £380 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 17
10th Percentile - £24.34 £17.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £40.68 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.72% -8.58% -32.58%
75th Percentile £60.75 £50.80 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.57 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £52.13 £20.00
% change year-on-year -56.84% +160.65% -

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 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
Edinburgh +34 6 £500 -5.88%
Time Sharing Option
UK

Time Sharing Option
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
1 6 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (33.33%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) ACF2
1 2 (33.33%) RACF
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) BMC
1 6 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 6 (100.00%) IBM