zOS Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM z/OS
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 zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 425 581
Rank change year-on-year +167 +156 -118
Contract jobs citing zOS 84 26 42
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.11% 0.095%
As % of the Operating Systems category 5.38% 0.80% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 8 17
10th Percentile £360 £563 £300
25th Percentile £430 £592 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £645 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.65% +35.74% -3.06%
75th Percentile £569 £653 £569
90th Percentile £588 £690 £577
UK median daily rate £460 £599 £525
% change year-on-year -23.17% +14.05% +31.25%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,560 3,241 5,363
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.64% 13.55% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,083 2,273 3,825
10th Percentile £230 £243 £300
25th Percentile £363 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.44% +10.22%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £618
90th Percentile £682 £731 £690
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 111 128
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.00 £14.85
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.71 £19.66
Median hourly rate £16.00 £52.50 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year -69.52% +28.83% +16.43%
75th Percentile £27.68 £68.50 £64.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £43.75 £22.25
% change year-on-year -48.57% +96.63% +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 8 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 23 (27.38%) SAS
2 13 (15.48%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.90%) GitHub
2 2 (2.38%) AWS
3 1 (1.19%) Azure
3 1 (1.19%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.33%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (21.43%) DB2
2 13 (15.48%) Adabas
3 9 (10.71%) IDMS
4 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.38%) OLTP
6 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.90%) Git
3 3 (3.57%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.19%) JIRA
General
1 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.52%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (19.05%) Programmer
1 16 (19.05%) Systems Programmer
2 13 (15.48%) Consultant
3 12 (14.29%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 11 (13.10%) Technical Consultant
5 10 (11.90%) z/OS Specialist
6 9 (10.71%) Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Mainframe Developer
7 8 (9.52%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 8 (9.52%) z/OS Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Storage Manager
9 5 (5.95%) DB2 Specialist
9 5 (5.95%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Systems Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) IBM Storage Specialist
10 4 (4.76%) Storage Specialist
11 3 (3.57%) Administrator
11 3 (3.57%) DB2 Administrator
11 3 (3.57%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.29%) ISPF
2 10 (11.90%) YAML
3 3 (3.57%) Middleware
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
4 2 (2.38%) REST
5 1 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 47 (55.95%) Mainframe
2 14 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (11.90%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.71%) LPAR
5 3 (3.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.19%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) Agile
2 19 (22.62%) Risk Management
3 12 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 12 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 12 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (14.29%) Storage Management
4 9 (10.71%) Project Management
4 9 (10.71%) Scrum
5 8 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 6 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (5.95%) ITIL
7 5 (5.95%) Knowledge Transfer
7 5 (5.95%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (5.95%) Workflow
8 4 (4.76%) Batch Processing
8 4 (4.76%) Cost Management
8 4 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (4.76%) Software Testing
9 3 (3.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 51 (60.71%) REXX
2 44 (52.38%) JCL
3 19 (22.62%) CLIST
4 15 (17.86%) COBOL
5 13 (15.48%) Natural
6 12 (14.29%) Assembly Language
7 10 (11.90%) Python
8 8 (9.52%) SELCOPY
9 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (45.24%) Time Sharing Option
2 12 (14.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 12 (14.29%) NFS
3 10 (11.90%) ACF2
3 10 (11.90%) RACF
4 7 (8.33%) Microcode
5 1 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (15.48%) OMEGAMON
2 11 (13.10%) Ansible
2 11 (13.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (5.95%) Control-M
4 1 (1.19%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (59.52%) IBM
2 26 (30.95%) Broadcom
3 23 (27.38%) CA
4 15 (17.86%) Splunk
5 13 (15.48%) Software AG
6 12 (14.29%) Brocade
6 12 (14.29%) Dell
7 9 (10.71%) Syncsort
8 7 (8.33%) BMC
9 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (4.76%) CyberArk
11 2 (2.38%) F5
12 1 (1.19%) Oracle