zOS Contracts in London

IBM z/OS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 366 457 562
Rank change year-on-year +91 +105 -74
Contract jobs citing zOS 34 25 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.61% 0.68% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 6 13
10th Percentile £420 £506 £503
25th Percentile £432 £523 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +2.17% +54.88%
75th Percentile £569 £656 £650
90th Percentile £575 £707 £727
England median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +63.70%

All Operating Systems
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,110 3,682 5,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.93% 14.64% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,680 3,729
10th Percentile £209 £213 £225
25th Percentile £350 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £670
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 62 82
10th Percentile £15.19 £16.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £22.75 £21.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £48.75 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -54.87% +103.89% -40.23%
75th Percentile £27.59 £64.50 £45.16
90th Percentile £60.43 £83.68 £62.38
England median hourly rate £22.51 £45.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.04% +109.56% +21.13%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for zOS in London

zOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for zOS in London

zOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for zOS in London

zOS
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +44 5 £550 -21.43%
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (23.53%) CICS
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
2 1 (2.94%) Azure
2 1 (2.94%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) DB2
2 2 (5.88%) OLTP
2 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.94%) Adabas
3 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) ChangeMan
2 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Banking
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Developer
1 8 (23.53%) Programmer
1 8 (23.53%) Systems Programmer
2 6 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) z/OS Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Mainframe Developer
4 4 (11.76%) z/OS Developer
4 4 (11.76%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 3 (8.82%) Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Backend Developer
5 3 (8.82%) DB2 Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.82%) z/OS Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Mainframe Programmer
6 2 (5.88%) SAP Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Mainframe Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) ISPF
2 1 (2.94%) Middleware
2 1 (2.94%) Node.js
2 1 (2.94%) REST
2 1 (2.94%) RESTful
2 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (47.06%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.82%) LPAR
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.71%) Agile
1 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (11.76%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (11.76%) Reverse Engineering
3 3 (8.82%) ITIL
3 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (5.88%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (5.88%) Cost Management
4 2 (5.88%) Data Security
4 2 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.88%) Incident Management
4 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (5.88%) Network Design
4 2 (5.88%) Performance Metrics
4 2 (5.88%) Project Management
4 2 (5.88%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (5.88%) Storage Management
5 1 (2.94%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) COBOL
1 7 (20.59%) JCL
2 4 (11.76%) REXX
3 3 (8.82%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.94%) Natural
5 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (5.88%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) ACF2
3 1 (2.94%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) NFS
3 1 (2.94%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) CA Endevor
2 3 (8.82%) Control-M
3 2 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Ansible
4 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.94%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) IBM
2 6 (17.65%) CA
3 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
3 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow
3 3 (8.82%) Splunk
4 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) BMC
5 1 (2.94%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.94%) Brocade
5 1 (2.94%) Dell
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle
5 1 (2.94%) Software AG