zOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM z/OS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 420 497
Rank change year-on-year +108 +77 -77
Contract jobs citing zOS 89 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.044% 0.023%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.62% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 3 4
10th Percentile £365 - £329
25th Percentile £415 £463 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £365
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +30.23% +4.51%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £394
90th Percentile £750 - £401
UK median daily rate £470 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -19.66% +11.43% +31.25%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 3,391 4,276 5,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.90% 18.84% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,208 2,930 3,824
10th Percentile £176 £165 £150
25th Percentile £275 £250 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £540
90th Percentile £672 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 307 426
10th Percentile £12.25 £13.29 £12.57
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.70 £15.05
Median hourly rate £24.18 £40.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +102.95% +17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £49.43
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North of England +58 49 £500 +5.26%
Yorkshire +45 39 £471 -0.84%
Midlands - 16 £378 - 4
West Midlands - 12 £358 -
Scotland - 10 £500 -
North West - 10 £763 -
South East +22 8 £358 -
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
South West - 3 - -
Wales - 2 - -
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
East of England +5 1 £600 -
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 30 (33.71%) SAS
2 12 (13.48%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (7.87%) GitHub
2 5 (5.62%) GCP
3 2 (2.25%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.25%) AWS
3 2 (2.25%) Azure
3 2 (2.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.62%) DWDM
2 2 (2.25%) LAN
2 2 (2.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (22.47%) Adabas
2 15 (16.85%) DB2
3 11 (12.36%) IDMS
4 9 (10.11%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.37%) Data Hub
5 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.12%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (12.36%) Git
2 7 (7.87%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) ChangeMan
General
1 30 (33.71%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Finance
3 10 (11.24%) Banking
4 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.12%) Automotive
5 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Consultant
2 20 (22.47%) Technical Consultant
3 19 (21.35%) Programmer
4 18 (20.22%) Systems Programmer
5 15 (16.85%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 11 (12.36%) Developer
6 11 (12.36%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 11 (12.36%) Mainframe Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Storage Manager
7 7 (7.87%) z/OS Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Administrator
10 3 (3.37%) Lead
10 3 (3.37%) Technical Leader
11 2 (2.25%) Architect
11 2 (2.25%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.25%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (37.08%) ISPF
2 7 (7.87%) YAML
3 6 (6.74%) Kafka
4 2 (2.25%) Middleware
4 2 (2.25%) REST
4 2 (2.25%) XML
4 2 (2.25%) XSLT
5 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (51.69%) Mainframe
2 18 (20.22%) IBM Mainframe
3 7 (7.87%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.74%) LPAR
5 5 (5.62%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.49%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (3.37%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (1.12%) Cyberattack
9 1 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.47%) Linux
2 13 (14.61%) Windows
3 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.25%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (24.72%) Agile
2 19 (21.35%) Risk Management
3 15 (16.85%) Performance Monitoring
4 13 (14.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (12.36%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (12.36%) Scrum
6 9 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (10.11%) Storage Management
7 8 (8.99%) ETL
7 8 (8.99%) Problem Management
8 7 (7.87%) Incident Response
9 6 (6.74%) Key Management
10 5 (5.62%) Project Management
11 4 (4.49%) Data Security
11 4 (4.49%) Ethical Hacking
11 4 (4.49%) ITIL
11 4 (4.49%) Security Architecture
11 4 (4.49%) SIEM
11 4 (4.49%) Vulnerability Management
11 4 (4.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 46 (51.69%) REXX
2 42 (47.19%) JCL
3 20 (22.47%) Natural
4 17 (19.10%) CLIST
5 14 (15.73%) Assembly Language
6 11 (12.36%) COBOL
7 10 (11.24%) SELCOPY
8 7 (7.87%) Python
9 3 (3.37%) SQL
10 2 (2.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 30 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.49%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (4.49%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (41.57%) Time Sharing Option
2 14 (15.73%) ACF2
2 14 (15.73%) RACF
3 10 (11.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 8 (8.99%) NFS
5 6 (6.74%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) OMEGAMON
2 8 (8.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (7.87%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Control-M
Vendors
1 52 (58.43%) IBM
2 28 (31.46%) Broadcom
3 21 (23.60%) Splunk
4 20 (22.47%) Software AG
5 15 (16.85%) CA
6 11 (12.36%) Syncsort
7 9 (10.11%) F5
8 8 (8.99%) BMC
8 8 (8.99%) Brocade
8 8 (8.99%) Dell
9 4 (4.49%) Qualys
9 4 (4.49%) ServiceNow
10 3 (3.37%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.37%) Databricks
10 3 (3.37%) Oracle
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.12%) SAP