zOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM z/OS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 431 499
Rank change year-on-year +128 +68 -108
Contract jobs citing zOS 87 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.051% 0.026%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.69% 0.27% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 3 5
10th Percentile £375 - £331
25th Percentile £412 £463 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £406
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +17.00% -19.80%
75th Percentile £588 £506 £525
90th Percentile £683 £518 £548
UK median daily rate £459 £578 £505
% change year-on-year -20.52% +14.36% -1.46%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,235 4,485 5,862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.80% 19.20% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,159 3,106 3,820
10th Percentile £175 £163 £150
25th Percentile £259 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £538
90th Percentile £672 £676 £638
UK median daily rate £468 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -7.43% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 335 455
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.27 £17.36 £15.02
Median hourly rate £22.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +46.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £62.38 £60.66 £49.51
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.74 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £38.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -42.86% +67.39% +29.50%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +89 64 £430 -9.47% 2
Yorkshire +68 59 £430 -9.47%
Midlands - 10 £358 -
West Midlands - 10 £358 -
Scotland +48 7 £500 -
South East +23 6 £358 -
North West - 5 £763 - 2
East of England +13 1 £600 -
South West - 1 - -
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (37.93%) SAS
2 12 (13.79%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) GitHub
2 4 (4.60%) GCP
3 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.30%) AWS
3 2 (2.30%) Azure
3 2 (2.30%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) DWDM
2 2 (2.30%) LAN
2 2 (2.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) DB2
2 11 (12.64%) IDMS
3 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.30%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 11 (12.64%) Git
General
1 48 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.34%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Banking
4 3 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.15%) Automotive
5 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Programmer
2 23 (26.44%) Systems Programmer
3 20 (22.99%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 17 (19.54%) Storage Manager
5 11 (12.64%) Developer
5 11 (12.64%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Mainframe Developer
6 9 (10.34%) z/OS Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Architect
10 2 (2.30%) Consultant
10 2 (2.30%) Lead
10 2 (2.30%) Technical Leader
10 2 (2.30%) z/OS Specialist
11 1 (1.15%) DBA
11 1 (1.15%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (48.28%) ISPF
2 15 (17.24%) YAML
3 5 (5.75%) Kafka
4 2 (2.30%) Middleware
4 2 (2.30%) XML
4 2 (2.30%) XSLT
5 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (63.22%) Mainframe
2 18 (20.69%) IBM Mainframe
3 14 (16.09%) Data Centre
4 13 (14.94%) LPAR
5 4 (4.60%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (2.30%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.18%) Linux
2 9 (10.34%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (35.63%) Risk Management
2 29 (33.33%) Agile
3 24 (27.59%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (24.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 20 (22.99%) Storage Management
6 18 (20.69%) Problem Management
7 16 (18.39%) Project Management
8 14 (16.09%) Cost Management
8 14 (16.09%) Software Testing
9 11 (12.64%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (12.64%) Scrum
10 8 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (8.05%) ETL
12 5 (5.75%) Incident Response
12 5 (5.75%) Key Management
13 4 (4.60%) Workflow
14 3 (3.45%) Data Security
14 3 (3.45%) Ethical Hacking
14 3 (3.45%) Network Design
14 3 (3.45%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (71.26%) REXX
2 61 (70.11%) JCL
3 21 (24.14%) CLIST
4 18 (20.69%) Assembly Language
5 15 (17.24%) Python
6 11 (12.64%) COBOL
7 10 (11.49%) SELCOPY
8 2 (2.30%) Java
8 2 (2.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (3.45%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (68.97%) Time Sharing Option
2 18 (20.69%) ACF2
2 18 (20.69%) NFS
2 18 (20.69%) RACF
3 13 (14.94%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (14.94%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 21 (24.14%) OMEGAMON
2 19 (21.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (17.24%) Ansible
Vendors
1 76 (87.36%) IBM
2 45 (51.72%) Broadcom
3 22 (25.29%) Splunk
4 21 (24.14%) CA
5 19 (21.84%) Dell
6 18 (20.69%) Brocade
7 11 (12.64%) Syncsort
8 7 (8.05%) F5
9 6 (6.90%) BMC
10 3 (3.45%) Qualys
11 2 (2.30%) Databricks
11 2 (2.30%) Oracle
12 1 (1.15%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.15%) SAP