zOS Contracts in London

IBM z/OS
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 357 458 575
Rank change year-on-year +101 +117 -101
Contract jobs citing zOS 29 29 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.17% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.40% 0.77% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 12
10th Percentile £420 £509 £503
25th Percentile £455 £541 £529
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +54.88%
75th Percentile £569 £653 £622
90th Percentile £590 £690 £731
England median daily rate £459 £566 £525
% change year-on-year -18.94% +7.86% +7.14%

All Operating Systems
London

zOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,073 3,748 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.86% 14.41% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,734 3,792
10th Percentile £205 £213 £228
25th Percentile £350 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £627 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £470 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 62 92
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.93 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.94 £21.88
Median hourly rate £22.00 £36.17 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.18% +49.15% -43.60%
75th Percentile £27.00 £64.50 £48.62
90th Percentile £60.00 £82.30 £62.95
England median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -42.11% +76.74% +22.86%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in London

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in London

zOS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Central London +42 5 £550 -8.33%
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (27.59%) CICS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) DB2
2 2 (6.90%) OLTP
2 2 (6.90%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
1 8 (27.59%) Programmer
1 8 (27.59%) Systems Programmer
2 5 (17.24%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) z/OS Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Mainframe Developer
3 4 (13.79%) z/OS Developer
3 4 (13.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.34%) DB2 Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.34%) z/OS Specialist
5 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Mainframe Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) ISPF
2 1 (3.45%) Middleware
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.90%) LPAR
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Linux
2 2 (6.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (13.79%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (13.79%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (6.90%) Agile
3 2 (6.90%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (6.90%) Cost Management
3 2 (6.90%) Data Security
3 2 (6.90%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (6.90%) Incident Management
3 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (6.90%) Network Design
3 2 (6.90%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (6.90%) Project Management
3 2 (6.90%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (6.90%) Storage Management
4 1 (3.45%) Decision-Making
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) Project Delivery
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) COBOL
2 3 (10.34%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) JCL
3 2 (6.90%) Assembly Language
3 2 (6.90%) REXX
4 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Time Sharing Option
1 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.45%) ACF2
2 1 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) NFS
2 1 (3.45%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) CA Endevor
2 2 (6.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.45%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) CA
2 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Broadcom
3 1 (3.45%) Brocade
3 1 (3.45%) Dell
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle