zOS Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

IBM z/OS
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring zOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 39 27
Rank change year-on-year -41 -12 +31
Contract jobs citing zOS 7 1 28
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.98% 0.32% 7.18%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.22% 1.35% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 20
10th Percentile - - £399
25th Percentile - £356 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 £430
Median % change year-on-year - -4.07% -14.00%
75th Percentile - £469 £474
90th Percentile - - £588
South Yorkshire median daily rate - £413 £430
% change year-on-year - -4.07% -14.00%

All Operating Systems
Sheffield

zOS 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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 134 74 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.74% 24.03% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 46 39
10th Percentile £325 £209 £189
25th Percentile £397 £430 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £527 £430
Median % change year-on-year -9.78% +22.44% -18.87%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £644 £658
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £520 £430
% change year-on-year -8.65% +20.93% -16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £15.75 £18.95
25th Percentile - £16.54 £19.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.60 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.25% -12.49% +51.79%
75th Percentile - £20.42 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.07 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £18.60 £21.25
% change year-on-year +35.25% -12.49% +51.79%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing zOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

zOS job vacancy trend in Sheffield

zOS
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing zOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing zOS

zOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CICS
1 2 (28.57%) Tomcat
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SAS
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (14.29%) FCoE
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) Multicast
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Programmer
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (28.57%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (71.43%) Mainframe
2 3 (42.86%) Replication
3 2 (28.57%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Storage Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Model Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JCL
2 1 (14.29%) Assembly Language
2 1 (14.29%) CLIST
2 1 (14.29%) REXX
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
1 2 (28.57%) KVM
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) NFS
2 1 (14.29%) SRDF
2 1 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (14.29%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Pure Storage