The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank 110 - 115
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing zOS 8 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.444% - 0.122%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.457% - 0.424%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
Average salary £42,500 - £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.84%
All Operating Systems
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
549 596 472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 30.45% 30.42% 28.85%
Number of salaries quoted 442 536 393
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 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
zOS
North West

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Knutsford - 5 £42,500 -
Chester - 3 - -
zOS
North West

zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
4 4 (44.44%) OMEGAMON
4 4 (44.44%) DB2
4 4 (44.44%) ITIL
4 4 (44.44%) UNIX
4 4 (44.44%) VMS
4 4 (44.44%) HP
4 4 (44.44%) CICS
4 4 (44.44%) MVS
4 4 (44.44%) Change Management
4 4 (44.44%) AS400
4 4 (44.44%) JCL
4 4 (44.44%) Workflow
4 4 (44.44%) NonStop SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
5 3 (33.33%) ISPF
5 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Private Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Online Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
5 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
5 3 (33.33%) Wealth Management
5 3 (33.33%) Maximo
5 3 (33.33%) Banking
5 3 (33.33%) Retail

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 3 (33.33%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) CICS
2 3 (33.33%) MQSeries
3 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) DB2
1 4 (44.44%) NonStop SQL
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Retail Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Private Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Operations Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 3 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Operator
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe Operator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) AS400
3 3 (33.33%) Online Banking
3 3 (33.33%) LPAR
4 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) UNIX
2 4 (44.44%) VMS
2 4 (44.44%) MVS
3 1 (11.11%) VME
3 1 (11.11%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem Management
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
2 4 (44.44%) Incident Management
3 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 3 (33.33%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JCL
2 1 (11.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
2 1 (11.11%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Fujitsu