The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the North West region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank 111 106 112
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing zOS 6 28 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.251% 0.922% 0.430%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.022% 4.416% 1.949%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
Average daily rate £425 £290 £356
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+46.55% -18.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £388 £350
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.50
All Operating Systems
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
587 634 667
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 24.59% 20.87% 22.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 231 347
Average daily rate £315 £318 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% +4.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 74 80
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +38.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
zOS
England

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing zOS across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West zOS Jobs Demand Trend

zOS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing zOS across the North West region.

North West zOS Daily Rate Trend

zOS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
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Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Cheshire -1 5 £425 -
Manchester -13 1 - -
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zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing zOS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited zOS.

1 13 (59.09%) IBM
2 12 (54.55%) CA
2 12 (54.55%) Mainframe
3 10 (45.45%) REXX
4 7 (31.82%) MVS
4 7 (31.82%) Windows
5 6 (27.27%) AIX
5 6 (27.27%) UNIX
5 6 (27.27%) CICS
5 6 (27.27%) Middleware
5 6 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (27.27%) VSAM
6 5 (22.73%) Banking
6 5 (22.73%) Clustering
6 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
6 5 (22.73%) JCL
6 5 (22.73%) SSL
6 5 (22.73%) Linux
6 5 (22.73%) DB2
6 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
6 5 (22.73%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 4 (18.18%) ISPF
7 4 (18.18%) Oracle
7 4 (18.18%) Finance
8 3 (13.64%) RACF
8 3 (13.64%) Tivoli
8 3 (13.64%) Retail
8 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
8 3 (13.64%) SQL
9 2 (9.091%) COBOL

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing zOS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited zOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (27.27%) Middleware
1 6 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (18.18%) ISPF
3 3 (13.64%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.545%) Mason
4 1 (4.545%) SOAP
4 1 (4.545%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) CICS
2 5 (22.73%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (9.091%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Portal
4 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
4 1 (4.545%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) SSL
2 2 (9.091%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.545%) Firewall
3 1 (4.545%) SAN
3 1 (4.545%) SNA
3 1 (4.545%) Internet
3 1 (4.545%) FTP
3 1 (4.545%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) DB2
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.545%) TOAD
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) DBA
3 2 (9.091%) CICS Systems Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) Systems Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) DB2 DBA
3 2 (9.091%) Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) Consultant
3 2 (9.091%) CICS Programmer
3 2 (9.091%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Middleware Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Designer
4 1 (4.545%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Design Leader
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Security Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Mainframe
2 6 (27.27%) VSAM
3 5 (22.73%) Clustering
4 1 (4.545%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (4.545%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (4.545%) Online Banking
4 1 (4.545%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) MVS
1 7 (31.82%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) AIX
2 6 (27.27%) UNIX
3 5 (22.73%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
2 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management
2 2 (9.091%) Validation
2 2 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (9.091%) Stress Testing
3 1 (4.545%) Performance Testing
3 1 (4.545%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) REXX
2 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
2 5 (22.73%) JCL
3 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 2 (9.091%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) RACF
2 1 (4.545%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Tivoli
2 2 (9.091%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (59.09%) IBM
2 12 (54.55%) CA
3 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (9.091%) HP
4 2 (9.091%) Citrix
4 2 (9.091%) VMware
5 1 (4.545%) Brocade
5 1 (4.545%) Cisco
5 1 (4.545%) CheckPoint
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