OS/400 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM OS/400 (OS400)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring OS/400 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OS/400 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 300 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OS/400 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £368 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £374 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £385 - -
UK median daily rate £374 - -

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

OS/400 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 1,177 1,597 3,543
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.88% 10.41% 13.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 1,113 2,503
10th Percentile £288 £218 £250
25th Percentile £388 £350 £408
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 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £469 £505
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.13% +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%

OS/400
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing OS/400 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

OS/400 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

OS/400
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing OS/400.

OS/400 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

OS/400
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:

Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) LPAR
1 4 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) RPG
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible