Time Sharing Option Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Time Sharing Option 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 364 423 500
Rank change year-on-year +59 +77 -57
Contract jobs citing Time Sharing Option 37 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.031% 0.013%
As % of the System Software category 1.46% 0.20% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 7 2
10th Percentile £413 - £392
25th Percentile £430 £463 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £398
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.79% +17.78%
75th Percentile £588 £541 £401
90th Percentile - £546 £404
UK median daily rate £471 £513 £484
% change year-on-year -8.10% +5.94% +43.33%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,540 3,419 4,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.91% 15.07% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 2,407 3,261
10th Percentile £185 £181 £158
25th Percentile £313 £305 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £688 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 165 226
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +144.72% -1.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.69
90th Percentile £78.80 £75.00 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK excluding London

Time Sharing Option
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 Time Sharing Option 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 +45 31 £471 -0.84%
Yorkshire +42 31 £471 -0.84%
Scotland +51 6 £500 -5.88%
Time Sharing Option
UK

Time Sharing Option
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 17 (45.95%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) GitHub
2 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 1 (2.70%) Banking
2 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (43.24%) Programmer
2 15 (40.54%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (40.54%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 7 (18.92%) Storage Manager
3 7 (18.92%) z/OS Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) IBM Storage Specialist
6 1 (2.70%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (78.38%) ISPF
2 7 (18.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (78.38%) Mainframe
2 7 (18.92%) Data Centre
3 6 (16.22%) IBM Mainframe
3 6 (16.22%) LPAR
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 37 (100.00%) zOS
2 8 (21.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (51.35%) Risk Management
2 15 (40.54%) Performance Monitoring
3 8 (21.62%) Agile
3 8 (21.62%) Problem Management
3 8 (21.62%) Storage Management
4 4 (10.81%) Project Management
4 4 (10.81%) Workflow
5 3 (8.11%) Cost Management
5 3 (8.11%) Software Testing
5 3 (8.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (5.41%) Capacity Management
6 2 (5.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.41%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (2.70%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.70%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) JCL
2 33 (89.19%) REXX
3 14 (37.84%) Assembly Language
4 7 (18.92%) Python
5 6 (16.22%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) ACF2
1 13 (35.14%) RACF
2 8 (21.62%) NFS
3 6 (16.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 6 (16.22%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) OMEGAMON
2 8 (21.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (18.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (100.00%) IBM
2 28 (75.68%) Broadcom
3 13 (35.14%) Splunk
4 11 (29.73%) CA
5 8 (21.62%) Brocade
5 8 (21.62%) Dell
6 6 (16.22%) BMC