Time Sharing Option Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 91 90
Rank change year-on-year -45 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 9 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.35% 1.10%
As % of the System Software category 2.42% 1.88% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile £507 £416 £415
25th Percentile £508 £439 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £483 £474
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% +1.90% -0.32%
75th Percentile £518 £529 £588
90th Percentile £518 £555 -
England median daily rate £375 £388 £475
% change year-on-year -3.23% -18.42% -

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 372 213 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.76% 18.46% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 131 172
10th Percentile £204 £235 £163
25th Percentile £358 £359 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +2.27% +3.53%
75th Percentile £540 £574 £579
90th Percentile £600 £625 £644
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 24
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £23.00 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 - £14.63
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.26%
75th Percentile £28.00 - £15.19
90th Percentile - - £19.78
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +87.50% +25.00% -55.20%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Time Sharing Option relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Time Sharing Option job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Time Sharing Option.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Time Sharing Option

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Time Sharing Option.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Time Sharing Option

Time Sharing Option
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 Time Sharing Option within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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 -39 9 £513 +6.37% 1
Time Sharing Option
England

Time Sharing Option
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Storage Manager
2 4 (44.44%) Programmer
2 4 (44.44%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (22.22%) Mainframe Programmer
4 2 (22.22%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) IBM Storage Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ISPF
2 2 (22.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) zOS
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
1 5 (55.56%) Storage Management
2 4 (44.44%) Data Protection
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 2 (22.22%) Cost Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) JCL
2 5 (55.56%) REXX
3 3 (33.33%) Assembly Language
3 3 (33.33%) CLIST
4 2 (22.22%) Python
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (22.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (55.56%) Broadcom
2 5 (55.56%) Brocade
2 5 (55.56%) Dell