The first table below looks at the demand for OS/2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited OS/2 over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM OS/2 (OS2)
Rank - 861 848
Permanent jobs citing OS/2 0 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England - 0.004% 0.002%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.016% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 2
Average salary - £46,250 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +23.33%
UK excluding London average salary - £32,500 -
All Operating Systems
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27643 30493 29557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.33% 26.90% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 23579 26367 25063
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
OS/2
UK

OS/2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing OS/2 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

England OS/2 Jobs Demand Trend

OS/2
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing OS/2 across the England region.

England OS/2 Salary Trend

OS/2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OS/2 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 OS/2.

1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) F5

OS/2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing OS/2 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 OS/2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) EMC
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) F5
1 1 (50.00%) Eloqua