zOS Jobs in the North of England

IBM z/OS
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 414 429
Rank change year-on-year +46 +15 -69
Permanent jobs citing zOS 11 19 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.063% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.49% 0.81% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,139 £41,250 £35,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £48,250 £43,775
Median % change year-on-year +47.15% +10.22% -12.45%
75th Percentile £74,000 £71,652 £60,625
90th Percentile - - £75,250
England median annual salary £87,610 £64,029 £54,250
% change year-on-year +36.83% +18.03% -13.20%

All Operating Systems
North of England

zOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,253 2,357 3,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.90% 13.69% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,499 2,423
10th Percentile £25,000 £24,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £71,652 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing zOS in the North of England.

Salary trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing zOS in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +78 6 - -
North West +17 4 £71,000 +31.48% 2
North East - 1 £43,072 -
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) CICS
1 3 (27.27%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) DB2
1 3 (27.27%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) DB2 DBA
1 3 (27.27%) DBA
1 3 (27.27%) Programmer
1 3 (27.27%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (27.27%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (9.09%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) ISPF
2 3 (27.27%) XML
3 1 (9.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Mainframe
2 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (27.27%) VSAM
3 2 (18.18%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
5 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) JCL
1 9 (81.82%) REXX
2 3 (27.27%) Assembly Language
2 3 (27.27%) COBOL
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) CLIST
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (54.55%) RACF
3 3 (27.27%) ACF2
4 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (9.09%) Microcode
4 1 (9.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (27.27%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (45.45%) Broadcom
3 4 (36.36%) Splunk
4 3 (27.27%) BMC
5 1 (9.09%) Brocade
5 1 (9.09%) CA
5 1 (9.09%) Dell