The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bromley region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bromley region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing zOS 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 2.920% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 7.547% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Operating Systems
Bromley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
53 45 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 38.69% 36.89% 23.81%
Number of salaries quoted 42 43 25
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,200 £22,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £45,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
zOS
London

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bromley zOS Jobs Demand Trend

zOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing zOS across the Bromley region.

Bromley zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 IT job ads sampled that cited zOS.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
1 10 (100.00%) Middleware
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (60.00%) Intranet
2 6 (60.00%) Internet
2 6 (60.00%) EMC
2 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (60.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) Solaris
2 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) iSeries
2 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
3 4 (40.00%) Wholesale Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Marketing
3 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (40.00%) AIX
3 4 (40.00%) C#
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) VB
3 4 (40.00%) MS Office
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) OpenVMS
3 4 (40.00%) ISEB
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 IT job ads sampled that cited zOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) Middleware
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
1 4 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Intranet
1 6 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (40.00%) Wholesale Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Financial Institution
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (60.00%) iSeries
2 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Solaris
3 4 (40.00%) AIX
3 4 (40.00%) UNIX
3 4 (40.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 6 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Citrix
2 6 (60.00%) EMC
2 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) HP
Bromley, Kent
The successful candidate will have extensive experience designing and building mainframe applications and strong mainframe development skills including COBOL, DB2, SQL and JCL. The candidate will ideally have...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 17 June 2013
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