OS/2 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM OS/2 (OS2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OS/2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OS/2 over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OS/2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.090% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - £425

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

OS/2 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 1,112 1,577 3,217
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.37% 10.68% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 1,078 2,254
10th Percentile £277 £231 £243
25th Percentile £375 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £499 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -4.95% +0.96%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £638
90th Percentile £675 £681 £738
UK median daily rate £465 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 43 118
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.70
25th Percentile £52.50 £14.14 £25.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.64 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +268.59% -66.41% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £69.31
90th Percentile £71.60 £71.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.95 £24.18 £46.00
% change year-on-year -9.22% -47.43% +104.44%

OS/2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OS/2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OS/2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OS/2
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GCC
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Sharing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Assembly Language
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) PL/1
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM