zOS Contracts in Yorkshire

IBM z/OS
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire requiring zOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited zOS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 47 119
Rank change year-on-year -34 +72 +20
Contract jobs citing zOS 8 59 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.79% 3.50% 0.35%
As % of the Operating Systems category 3.65% 17.82% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 37 3
10th Percentile £430 £403 -
25th Percentile £475 £415 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.55% -9.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £579 £488 £506
90th Percentile £592 £588 £518
England median daily rate £454 £459 £585
% change year-on-year -1.14% -21.54% +15.84%

All Operating Systems
Yorkshire

zOS 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 219 331 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 21.58% 19.62% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 241 224
10th Percentile £178 £163 £153
25th Percentile £243 £275 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £415 £440
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.68% +17.33%
75th Percentile £581 £506 £550
90th Percentile £725 £588 £650
England median daily rate £475 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 9
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.61 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.35 £19.39
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +10.15% +10.77%
75th Percentile £19.75 £23.75 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.12 - £34.00
England median hourly rate £24.66 £22.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +12.09% -42.11% +76.74%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in Yorkshire

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in Yorkshire

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in Yorkshire

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in Yorkshire

zOS
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 zOS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -35 6 £550 +27.91% 2
West Yorkshire +12 2 £513 -18.00%
zOS
England

zOS
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 3 (37.50%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DWDM
1 1 (12.50%) SNA
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Banking
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) ISPF
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (37.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (12.50%) LPAR
3 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) High Availability
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) JCL
1 7 (87.50%) REXX
2 4 (50.00%) CLIST
3 2 (25.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (12.50%) ACF2
2 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (12.50%) Microcode
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Control-M
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft