The first 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 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM MVS
Rank 240 249 229
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -20
Permanent jobs citing MVS 6 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.082% 0.027% 0.014%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.314% 0.101% 0.060%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
Average salary £32,000 £80,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-60.00% +158.06%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £28,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +42.85%
All Operating Systems
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1909 1981 1654
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 26.10% 27.06% 23.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1637 1726 1495
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
MVS
England

MVS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 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 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Cheshire +18 5 £32,000 -
Manchester - 1 £32,000 -
MVS
England

MVS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

1 6 (100.00%) DB2
1 6 (100.00%) CICS
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
2 5 (83.33%) zOS
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
3 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
3 4 (66.67%) Retail
3 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Maximo
3 4 (66.67%) Wealth Management
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Management
3 4 (66.67%) LPAR
3 4 (66.67%) ISPF
3 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Private Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Online Banking
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (33.33%) REXX
5 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
5 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler

MVS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 4 (66.67%) ISPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) CICS
2 4 (66.67%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
3 4 (66.67%) Retail
3 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
3 4 (66.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe Operator
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (66.67%) LPAR
2 4 (66.67%) Online Banking
3 1 (16.67%) AS400
3 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) zOS
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 4 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 4 (66.67%) Wealth Management
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (33.33%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
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