zOS Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM z/OS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 431 581
Rank change year-on-year +176 +150 -111
Contract jobs citing zOS 87 26 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.59% 0.11% 0.096%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.53% 0.80% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 8 17
10th Percentile £360 £563 £300
25th Percentile £430 £592 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £645 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% +35.74% +6.74%
75th Percentile £578 £653 £569
90th Percentile £588 £690 £577
UK median daily rate £470 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -19.66% +11.43% +31.25%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,572 3,239 5,309
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.65% 13.57% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 2,268 3,789
10th Percentile £229 £245 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +1.94% +9.57%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £620
90th Percentile £685 £731 £694
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 113 125
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £20.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +16.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £46.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -50.80% +110.11% +27.14%

zOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

zOS trend for jobs with a WFH option

zOS
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 zOS.

zOS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing zOS over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

zOS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

zOS
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (24.14%) SAS
2 13 (14.94%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.20%) GitHub
2 2 (2.30%) AWS
3 1 (1.15%) Azure
3 1 (1.15%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) Adabas
2 18 (20.69%) DB2
3 9 (10.34%) IDMS
4 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.30%) OLTP
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Git
2 9 (10.34%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.45%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.20%) Finance
4 6 (6.90%) Banking
5 3 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (27.59%) Consultant
2 22 (25.29%) Technical Consultant
3 15 (17.24%) Programmer
3 15 (17.24%) Systems Programmer
4 11 (12.64%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 9 (10.34%) Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Mainframe Developer
5 9 (10.34%) z/OS Specialist
6 8 (9.20%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 7 (8.05%) z/OS Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) DB2 Specialist
8 5 (5.75%) Storage Manager
9 4 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) IBM Storage Specialist
9 4 (4.60%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Storage Specialist
9 4 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Administrator
10 3 (3.45%) DB2 Administrator
11 2 (2.30%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.18%) ISPF
2 8 (9.20%) YAML
3 3 (3.45%) Middleware
4 2 (2.30%) Kafka
4 2 (2.30%) REST
5 1 (1.15%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 42 (48.28%) Mainframe
2 14 (16.09%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (9.20%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.90%) LPAR
5 3 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.09%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Agile
2 14 (16.09%) Risk Management
3 10 (11.49%) Performance Monitoring
4 9 (10.34%) Problem Management
4 9 (10.34%) Scrum
4 9 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (10.34%) Storage Management
5 8 (9.20%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (6.90%) Project Management
7 5 (5.75%) ITIL
7 5 (5.75%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (5.75%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.75%) Workflow
8 4 (4.60%) Batch Processing
8 4 (4.60%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.60%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (3.45%) ETL
10 2 (2.30%) Data Security
10 2 (2.30%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) REXX
2 36 (41.38%) JCL
3 24 (27.59%) Natural
4 16 (18.39%) CLIST
5 15 (17.24%) COBOL
6 10 (11.49%) Assembly Language
7 8 (9.20%) Python
7 8 (9.20%) SELCOPY
8 1 (1.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (35.63%) Security Cleared
2 30 (34.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.75%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (34.48%) Time Sharing Option
2 9 (10.34%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 9 (10.34%) NFS
3 8 (9.20%) ACF2
3 8 (9.20%) RACF
4 4 (4.60%) Microcode
5 1 (1.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) OMEGAMON
2 9 (10.34%) Ansible
3 8 (9.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 5 (5.75%) Control-M
5 1 (1.15%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.15%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (48.28%) IBM
2 24 (27.59%) Software AG
3 21 (24.14%) Broadcom
4 20 (22.99%) CA
5 13 (14.94%) Splunk
6 9 (10.34%) Brocade
6 9 (10.34%) Dell
6 9 (10.34%) Syncsort
7 7 (8.05%) BMC
8 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
9 4 (4.60%) CyberArk
10 2 (2.30%) F5
11 1 (1.15%) Oracle