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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MVS
Rank 188 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MVS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.025% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.097% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £32,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,750 £36,250 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-6.89% -13.69%
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1032 994 845
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 25.34% 27.29% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 910 844 784
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +6.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £43,700
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester MVS Salary Trend

MVS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Tandem
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) OMEGAMON

MVS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) AS400
1 1 (100.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
1 1 (100.00%) OMEGAMON