zOS Contracts in West Yorkshire

IBM z/OS
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 74 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Contract jobs citing zOS 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.36% 0.30% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.67% 2.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £506 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% - -
75th Percentile £519 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £531 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +23.55% -9.47% -9.52%

All Operating Systems
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 120 143 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 21.90% 14.31% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 110 126
10th Percentile £185 £178 £190
25th Percentile £313 £300 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £470
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.89% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £522 £575
90th Percentile £750 £619 £660
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £415 £440
% change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £13.87 £13.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.52 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +182.37% -5.96% -12.12%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.95 £33.29
90th Percentile - £17.34 £61.32
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £19.39
% change year-on-year -17.25% +13.49% +10.77%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in West Yorkshire

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in West Yorkshire

zOS
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds +2 1 - -
Halifax - 1 £513 -
zOS
Yorkshire

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SNA
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM