zOS Contracts in England

IBM z/OS
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 434 599 728
Rank change year-on-year +165 +129 -115
Contract jobs citing zOS 116 37 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.079% 0.084%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.25% 0.49% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 9 19
10th Percentile £369 - £403
25th Percentile £420 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +63.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £613
90th Percentile £638 £681 £688
UK median daily rate £470 £585 £525
% change year-on-year -19.66% +11.43% +31.25%

All Operating Systems
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,164 7,622 10,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 16.20% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,456 5,352 7,467
10th Percentile £188 £194 £175
25th Percentile £310 £329 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 378 360 497
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.53 £18.22 £15.80
Median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £51.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in England

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in England

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for zOS in England

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in England

zOS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the England 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%
London +91 34 £475 -19.15% 5
Midlands - 16 £378 - 4
West Midlands - 12 £358 -
North West - 10 £763 -
South East +22 8 £358 -
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
South West - 3 - -
East of England +5 1 £600 -
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (25.86%) SAS
2 23 (19.83%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.90%) GitHub
2 7 (6.03%) AWS
3 6 (5.17%) GCP
4 4 (3.45%) Azure
5 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) DWDM
2 2 (1.72%) LAN
2 2 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) DB2
2 15 (12.93%) Adabas
3 11 (9.48%) IDMS
4 8 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.59%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.59%) Data Hub
6 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.59%) OLTP
6 3 (2.59%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.45%) ChangeMan
4 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.86%) JIRA
General
1 42 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.79%) Banking
3 15 (12.93%) Finance
4 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.86%) Automotive
6 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (23.28%) Programmer
2 26 (22.41%) Systems Programmer
3 19 (16.38%) Developer
3 19 (16.38%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 16 (13.79%) Consultant
5 15 (12.93%) Mainframe Developer
6 14 (12.07%) Technical Consultant
7 11 (9.48%) IBM Mainframe Developer
7 11 (9.48%) Systems Engineer
8 9 (7.76%) Storage Manager
8 9 (7.76%) z/OS Specialist
9 8 (6.90%) z/OS Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.45%) Administrator
11 4 (3.45%) CICS Specialist
11 4 (3.45%) z/OS Developer
12 3 (2.59%) Architect
12 3 (2.59%) DB2 Administrator
12 3 (2.59%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (32.76%) ISPF
2 8 (6.90%) YAML
3 4 (3.45%) Kafka
4 3 (2.59%) Middleware
4 3 (2.59%) REST
5 2 (1.72%) Web Services
5 2 (1.72%) XML
5 2 (1.72%) XSLT
6 1 (0.86%) Node.js
6 1 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 61 (52.59%) Mainframe
2 13 (11.21%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (7.76%) Data Centre
3 9 (7.76%) LPAR
4 5 (4.31%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.59%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.86%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.55%) Linux
2 13 (11.21%) Windows
3 5 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.00%) Agile
2 21 (18.10%) Risk Management
3 16 (13.79%) Performance Monitoring
4 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (11.21%) Storage Management
6 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.34%) Scrum
7 11 (9.48%) Problem Management
7 11 (9.48%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (8.62%) Project Management
9 8 (6.90%) ETL
10 7 (6.03%) ITIL
11 6 (5.17%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (5.17%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (5.17%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (4.31%) Cost Management
12 5 (4.31%) Data Security
12 5 (4.31%) Incident Response
12 5 (4.31%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 48 (41.38%) REXX
2 46 (39.66%) JCL
3 20 (17.24%) COBOL
4 18 (15.52%) CLIST
5 15 (12.93%) Assembly Language
5 15 (12.93%) Natural
6 10 (8.62%) SELCOPY
7 8 (6.90%) Python
8 5 (4.31%) Java
9 4 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.90%) Degree
4 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.59%) GDPR
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (31.03%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (12.93%) ACF2
2 15 (12.93%) RACF
3 13 (11.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 10 (8.62%) NFS
5 6 (5.17%) Microcode
6 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (16.38%) OMEGAMON
2 10 (8.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 9 (7.76%) Ansible
4 7 (6.03%) Control-M
5 4 (3.45%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 59 (50.86%) IBM
2 25 (21.55%) Broadcom
3 23 (19.83%) CA
4 22 (18.97%) Splunk
5 15 (12.93%) Software AG
6 11 (9.48%) Dell
6 11 (9.48%) Syncsort
7 10 (8.62%) Brocade
8 7 (6.03%) F5
8 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
9 6 (5.17%) CyberArk
10 4 (3.45%) Oracle
11 3 (2.59%) BMC
11 3 (2.59%) Databricks
11 3 (2.59%) Microsoft
11 3 (2.59%) SAP
12 2 (1.72%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.72%) Qualys
12 2 (1.72%) VMware