Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MVS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MVS over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Operating Systems category for the North West region.

 IBM MVS
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank184195244
Rank change year-on-year
Up+11Up+49
Matching permanent IT job ads4536
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West0.074 %0.088 %0.286 %
As % of the Operating Systems category0.358 %0.415 %1.192 %
Salaries quoted4436
Average salary£59,400£35,000£37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+69.71 %-5.400 %
UK excluding London average salary£59,400£35,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
+69.71 %+16.66 %
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryAll Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
111812063019
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West20.65 %21.12 %23.99 %
Salaries quoted98610902651
Average salary£31,500£30,000£30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.000 %-1.630 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£20,000£21,000£19,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£45,000£42,000
UK excluding London average salary£33,500£32,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.070 %-
MVS EnglandMVS
England

MVS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MVS across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

North West MVS Demand Trend

MVS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MVS across the North West region.

North West MVS Salary Trend

MVS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MVS within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LancashireNew entry-3£59,400-
CheshireNew entry-1£45,000-
MVS EnglandMVS
England

MVS
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

13 (60.00 %)UNIX
13 (60.00 %)CRM
13 (60.00 %)VoIP
13 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
13 (60.00 %)Workflow
13 (60.00 %)Government
13 (60.00 %)Document Management
13 (60.00 %)Resource Management
13 (60.00 %)VME
22 (40.00 %)zOS
22 (40.00 %)Mainframe
31 (20.00 %)JCL
31 (20.00 %)CICS
31 (20.00 %)SAS
31 (20.00 %)C
31 (20.00 %)COBOL
31 (20.00 %)OMEGAMON

MVS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the North West 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.

North West IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (20.00 %)SAS
11 (20.00 %)CICS
North West IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13 (60.00 %)VoIP
13 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
North West IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (60.00 %)Government
North West IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (60.00 %)Architect
13 (60.00 %)Solutions Architect
13 (60.00 %)IT Architect
13 (60.00 %)Principal Architect
21 (20.00 %)Performance Engineer
North West IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (40.00 %)Mainframe
North West IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (60.00 %)UNIX
13 (60.00 %)VME
22 (40.00 %)zOS
North West IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (60.00 %)CRM
13 (60.00 %)Workflow
13 (60.00 %)Document Management
13 (60.00 %)Resource Management
North West IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (20.00 %)C
11 (20.00 %)COBOL
11 (20.00 %)JCL
North West IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (20.00 %)OMEGAMON