zOS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

IBM z/OS
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 85 44 17
Rank change year-on-year -41 -27 +44
Contract jobs citing zOS 7 1 41
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.91% 0.30% 9.23%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.11% 1.33% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 29
10th Percentile - - £402
25th Percentile - £356 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £413 £430
Median % change year-on-year - -4.07% -14.00%
75th Percentile - £469 £449
90th Percentile - - £588
Yorkshire median daily rate - £413 £430
% change year-on-year - -4.07% -16.10%

All Operating Systems
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 137 75 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 17.89% 22.39% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 47 52
10th Percentile £325 £209 £193
25th Percentile £397 £422 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +20.93% -16.50%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £625 £643 £623
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £475 £430
% change year-on-year -10.53% +10.47% +7.50%
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 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.23 £17.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +32.71% -17.88% -2.02%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

zOS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

zOS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing zOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing zOS

zOS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Sheffield -41 7 - -
zOS
Yorkshire

zOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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