MVS Contracts in Yorkshire

IBM MVS
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 91 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing MVS 1 11 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.067% 0.72% -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% 4.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £400 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +57.14%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

MVS 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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 282 240 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.96% 15.75% 15.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 154 220
10th Percentile £180 £178 £155
25th Percentile £325 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £493 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +9.44% +16.13%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £588
90th Percentile £602 £634 £688
England median daily rate £460 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -5.64% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 17
10th Percentile £16.88 £13.87 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.27 £15.21 £16.50
Median hourly rate £18.35 £17.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year +4.87% -11.99% +6.34%
75th Percentile £19.69 £21.50 £21.31
90th Percentile £19.76 £22.00 £22.10
England median hourly rate £23.00 £28.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% -32.35% +88.89%

MVS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for MVS in Yorkshire

MVS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for MVS in Yorkshire

MVS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MVS in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for MVS in Yorkshire

MVS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
South Yorkshire -20 1 - -
MVS
England

MVS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) FCoE
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) SRDF
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) EMC
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Pure Storage
1 1 (100.00%) VMware