Time Sharing Option Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Time Sharing Option skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 303 473 604
Rank change year-on-year +170 +131 -138
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 42 4 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.015% 0.063%
As % of the System Software category 2.89% 0.12% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 4 13
10th Percentile - £374 £320
25th Percentile £430 £439 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.44% +2.50% +23.46%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £525
90th Percentile £588 £546 £568
UK median daily rate £433 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -17.62% +5.00% -4.76%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Time Sharing Option is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,452 3,207 5,522
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.46% 12.40% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 2,296 4,078
10th Percentile £263 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.84% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £618 £633 £625
90th Percentile £677 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 101 104
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.28
25th Percentile £15.88 £47.50 £17.69
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £52.81
90th Percentile £84.57 £78.00 £65.86
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

Time Sharing Option
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Time Sharing Option trend for jobs with a WFH option

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Time Sharing Option.

Time Sharing Option daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Time Sharing Option daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Time Sharing Option
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 12 (28.57%) SAS
2 2 (4.76%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (16.67%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.76%) Banking
3 2 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Programmer
1 11 (26.19%) Systems Programmer
1 11 (26.19%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 9 (21.43%) Storage Manager
3 8 (19.05%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) IBM Storage Specialist
4 4 (9.52%) Storage Specialist
4 4 (9.52%) z/OS Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) COBOL Developer
6 2 (4.76%) DB2 Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Developer
7 1 (2.38%) Hardware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (61.90%) ISPF
2 12 (28.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (61.90%) Mainframe
2 12 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 7 (16.67%) LPAR
4 5 (11.90%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 40 (95.24%) zOS
2 14 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Risk Management
2 16 (38.10%) Agile
3 14 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 14 (33.33%) Storage Management
4 12 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 10 (23.81%) Project Management
6 6 (14.29%) Cost Management
6 6 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (11.90%) Workflow
8 2 (4.76%) Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.76%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (4.76%) Data Analytics
8 2 (4.76%) Data Extraction
8 2 (4.76%) ETL
8 2 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (4.76%) Scrum
8 2 (4.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (95.24%) JCL
2 38 (90.48%) REXX
3 12 (28.57%) Assembly Language
3 12 (28.57%) Python
4 10 (23.81%) CLIST
5 2 (4.76%) COBOL
5 2 (4.76%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (33.33%) NFS
2 9 (21.43%) ACF2
2 9 (21.43%) RACF
3 7 (16.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 7 (16.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 12 (28.57%) Ansible
2 12 (28.57%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 42 (100.00%) IBM
2 28 (66.67%) Broadcom
3 19 (45.24%) CA
4 14 (33.33%) Brocade
4 14 (33.33%) Dell
5 9 (21.43%) Splunk
6 5 (11.90%) BMC
7 2 (4.76%) ICL
7 2 (4.76%) Syncsort