The first table below looks at the demand for MVS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MVS over the 3 months to 22 May 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MVS
Rank 116 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MVS 4 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.222% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.721% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £32,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £36,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-10.34% -14.70%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
555 610 452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.82% 30.38% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 446 549 377
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
MVS
North West

MVS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire MVS Jobs Demand Trend

MVS
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire MVS Salary Trend

MVS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 3 - -
Knutsford - 1 £32,000 -
MVS
North West

MVS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MVS 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 MVS.

1 4 (100.00%) DB2
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
1 4 (100.00%) JCL
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (100.00%) CICS
1 4 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (75.00%) Wealth Management
2 3 (75.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (75.00%) LPAR
2 3 (75.00%) Maximo
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (75.00%) ISPF
2 3 (75.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Private Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Online Banking
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management

MVS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MVS 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 MVS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) CICS
2 3 (75.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) Financial Institution
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Operator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) LPAR
2 3 (75.00%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Wealth Management
1 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Management
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JCL
2 1 (25.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli NetView