MVS Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM MVS
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 MVS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MVS 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 326 454 609
Rank change year-on-year +128 +155 -128
Contract jobs citing MVS 15 1 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.004% 0.022%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.98% 0.030% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £725 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £285
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% +163.16% -43.00%
75th Percentile £438 £775 £288
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £650 £350
% change year-on-year -34.62% +85.71% -30.00%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

MVS is in the Operating Systems 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 operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,534 3,345 5,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.42% 13.50% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,075 2,356 3,808
10th Percentile £225 £244 £300
25th Percentile £350 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +4.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £633 £613
90th Percentile £683 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £466 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -7.33% +0.57% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 105 141
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.20 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.85 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.91% +16.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £37.85 £67.50 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £39.05 £22.50
% change year-on-year -43.28% +73.56% +28.57%

MVS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MVS trend for jobs with a WFH option

MVS
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 MVS.

MVS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MVS
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:

General
1 15 (100.00%) Banking
1 15 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Change Management
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) CA