zOS Contracts in Scotland

IBM z/OS
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 165 173
Rank change year-on-year +45 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing zOS 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 0.071% 0.057%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.98% 0.38% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile - - £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £335
75th Percentile - - £339
90th Percentile £673 - £339
UK median daily rate £459 £585 £488
% change year-on-year -21.54% +20.00% -3.70%

All Operating Systems
Scotland

zOS is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 354 526 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.30% 18.69% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 369 347
10th Percentile £185 £160 £139
25th Percentile £324 £260 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £538
90th Percentile £750 £726 £600
UK median daily rate £470 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -6.93% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 24
10th Percentile £17.23 £17.72 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.27 £18.49 £17.03
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +162.50% +53.85%
75th Percentile £60.75 £58.96 £49.85
90th Percentile £62.50 £64.76 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £39.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.40% +73.33% +25.80%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in Scotland

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for zOS in Scotland

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in Scotland

zOS
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 zOS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 +50 7 £500 -
zOS
UK

zOS
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 (28.57%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) ISPF
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) IBM Mainframe
1 6 (85.71%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Workflow
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Management
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Data Security
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Key Management
3 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) JCL
1 6 (85.71%) REXX
2 2 (28.57%) Assembly Language
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (28.57%) ACF2
2 2 (28.57%) RACF
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) BMC
1 6 (85.71%) Broadcom
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Qualys
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk