zOS Contracts in South Yorkshire

IBM z/OS
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring zOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited zOS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 13 49
Rank change year-on-year -35 +36 +8
Contract jobs citing zOS 6 57 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.47% 12.26% 1.33%
As % of the Operating Systems category 6.59% 41.30% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 37 2
10th Percentile £420 £403 -
25th Percentile £450 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -9.47% +21.79%
75th Percentile £586 £488 £488
90th Percentile £595 £588 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +23.55% -9.47% +21.79%

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 91 138 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.25% 29.68% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 91 55
10th Percentile £150 £200 £163
25th Percentile £374 £403 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -14.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £521 £575
90th Percentile £704 £588 £683
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £423 £450
% change year-on-year +6.51% -6.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 2
10th Percentile - £16.60 £11.65
25th Percentile £18.10 £21.25 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +41.94% -15.07%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £19.63
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.50 £19.64
% change year-on-year +4.03% -10.87% +7.59%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in South Yorkshire

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in South Yorkshire

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in South Yorkshire

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 30 May 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 -28 4 £400 -6.98% 5
Barnsley 0 1 £565 +36.14%
zOS
Yorkshire

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) Easytrieve
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Programmer
1 3 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (33.33%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (16.67%) LPAR
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (16.67%) Batch Scheduling
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
1 6 (100.00%) REXX
2 4 (66.67%) CLIST
3 2 (33.33%) Assembly Language
4 1 (16.67%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (16.67%) ACF2
2 1 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (16.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft