zOS Jobs in the UK excluding London

IBM z/OS
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 738 740 799
Rank change year-on-year +2 +59 -124
Permanent jobs citing zOS 19 21 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.035% 0.071%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.18% 0.21% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 29
10th Percentile - - £38,215
25th Percentile £42,139 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £54,441 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.88% -9.27% +20.00%
75th Percentile £44,005 £68,221 £67,000
90th Percentile £74,000 £71,652 £72,500
UK median annual salary £87,610 £63,265 £60,000
% change year-on-year +38.48% +5.44% -3.61%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 10,576 9,878 14,822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.91% 16.42% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,180 6,246 9,321
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £72,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +46 11 £71,000 +47.15% 2
Yorkshire +78 6 - -
North West +17 4 £71,000 +31.48% 2
South West - 4 £43,072 -
Midlands - 3 £43,072 -
West Midlands - 2 £43,072 -
Wales - 1 £43,072 -
North East - 1 £43,072 -
East Midlands - 1 £43,072 -
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.79%) CICS
1 3 (15.79%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) DB2
2 3 (15.79%) Easytrieve
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DB2 DBA
2 4 (21.05%) DBA
3 3 (15.79%) Programmer
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (15.79%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 1 (5.26%) Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) DB2 Administrator
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (5.26%) Remote Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) ISPF
2 3 (15.79%) XML
3 1 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (73.68%) Mainframe
2 11 (57.89%) Data Centre
3 9 (47.37%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (15.79%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (15.79%) VSAM
5 1 (5.26%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Performance Monitoring
2 10 (52.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (47.37%) Information Security
4 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.79%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (15.79%) Change Management
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (5.26%) Agile
7 1 (5.26%) Cost Management
7 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
7 1 (5.26%) Project Management
7 1 (5.26%) Service Design
7 1 (5.26%) Service Management
7 1 (5.26%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.26%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) JCL
1 9 (47.37%) REXX
2 3 (15.79%) Assembly Language
2 3 (15.79%) COBOL
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 1 (5.26%) CLIST
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Time Sharing Option
2 6 (31.58%) RACF
3 3 (15.79%) ACF2
4 1 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (5.26%) Microcode
4 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (15.79%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) IBM
2 5 (26.32%) Broadcom
3 4 (21.05%) Splunk
4 3 (15.79%) BMC
5 1 (5.26%) Brocade
5 1 (5.26%) CA
5 1 (5.26%) Dell
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft