MVS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM MVS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring MVS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MVS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 337 469
Rank change year-on-year +38 +132 +157
Contract jobs citing MVS 3 15 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.098% 0.004%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.25% 0.94% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £401 £413 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -43.33% +163.16%
75th Percentile £464 £438 £775
90th Percentile £482 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £650
% change year-on-year -5.88% -34.62% +85.71%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

MVS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,179 1,598 3,545
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.89% 10.39% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 1,114 2,506
10th Percentile £280 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -8.65% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £680 £721
UK median daily rate £475 £468 £505
% change year-on-year +1.50% -7.33% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 49 101
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.15 £19.00
25th Percentile £32.19 £14.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £18.30 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +241.53% -68.17% +35.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £73.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £22.00 £39.30
% change year-on-year +9.91% -44.02% +74.67%

MVS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MVS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MVS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MVS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MVS.

MVS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MVS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) ACF2
1 1 (33.33%) RACF
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Broadcom
2 1 (33.33%) IBM