The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank 79 91 100
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +9
Permanent jobs citing zOS 7 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.658% 0.073% 0.315%
As % of the Operating Systems category 2.929% 0.322% 1.563%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
Average salary £35,000 - £27,500
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 - £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,898 - £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.84%
All Operating Systems
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
239 311 320
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 22.46% 22.75% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 159 234 218
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £22,500 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
zOS
Scotland

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
1 7 (100.00%) HTTP
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
1 7 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) AIX
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) JBoss
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
3 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
4 3 (42.86%) Jython
4 3 (42.86%) Content Management
4 3 (42.86%) Adobe CQ
4 3 (42.86%) Perl
4 3 (42.86%) Advertising
4 3 (42.86%) Adobe
4 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
4 3 (42.86%) Apache
4 3 (42.86%) Python
5 2 (28.57%) Solaris
5 2 (28.57%) Banking
6 1 (14.29%) Incident Management

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (100.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 7 (100.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 7 (100.00%) WebSphere Portal
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe CQ
2 3 (42.86%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Advertising
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) WebSphere Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Web Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) WebSphere Technical Specialist
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) UNIX
2 5 (71.43%) AIX
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Content Management
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Jython
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
1 3 (42.86%) Shell Script
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) JBoss
3 3 (42.86%) Adobe