The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 22 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank 791 874 804
Rank change year-on-year
+83 -70
Permanent jobs citing zOS 73 26 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.067% 0.021% 0.054%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.247% 0.079% 0.216%
Number of salaries quoted 41 21 46
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £28,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.84%
All Operating Systems
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
29596 32754 30499
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.21% 26.71% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 24978 28107 25735
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing zOS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

zOS Jobs Demand Trend

zOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing zOS within the UK.

zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing zOS over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

zOS Salary Histogram

zOS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +66 59 £47,500 +11.76%
London +73 26 £50,000 -31.03%
North West +5 14 £42,500 -39.28%
South East +16 11 £50,000 +17.64%
Scotland +9 11 £35,000 -
Cheshire - 8 £42,500 -
Edinburgh +6 7 £35,000 -
City of London - 7 £42,500 -
Manchester +1 6 £40,000 -33.33%
Southampton - 5 £62,500 -
Hampshire - 5 £62,500 -
Knutsford - 5 £42,500 -
West Sussex -5 4 £50,000 +17.64%
Bromley - 4 - -
Crawley - 4 £50,000 -
Chester - 3 - -
Nottinghamshire - 3 - -
Nottingham - 3 - -
Croydon - 3 £50,000 -
East Midlands - 3 - -
Surrey +16 2 £50,000 -20.00%
South West -1 2 £47,500 -26.92%
West Midlands -16 2 - -
Dorking - 2 £50,000 -
Inverness - 2 - -
Erskine - 2 - -
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Highlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 1 - -

zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing zOS 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 zOS.

1 96 (69.57%) Mainframe
2 83 (60.14%) IBM
3 82 (59.42%) Windows
4 74 (53.62%) UNIX
5 53 (38.41%) DB2
6 52 (37.68%) Finance
7 44 (31.88%) Linux
8 40 (28.99%) CICS
9 39 (28.26%) WebSphere
10 36 (26.09%) Banking
11 34 (24.64%) ITIL
12 32 (23.19%) JCL
13 31 (22.46%) REXX
14 28 (20.29%) MVS
14 28 (20.29%) ISPF
15 26 (18.84%) BMC
16 24 (17.39%) Apache
17 22 (15.94%) CA
18 21 (15.22%) Citrix
18 21 (15.22%) SAS
19 20 (14.49%) Solaris
19 20 (14.49%) Java
20 19 (13.77%) HP
20 19 (13.77%) Middleware
20 19 (13.77%) Project Management
21 18 (13.04%) IBM Mainframe
21 18 (13.04%) VMware
21 18 (13.04%) AIX
21 18 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
22 17 (12.32%) E-Commerce

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing zOS 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 zOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (28.26%) WebSphere
2 28 (20.29%) ISPF
3 19 (13.77%) Middleware
4 12 (8.696%) Java EE
5 9 (6.522%) Web Services
6 8 (5.797%) XML
7 6 (4.348%) J2EE
8 5 (3.623%) HTML
8 5 (3.623%) .NET
9 4 (2.899%) XSD
9 4 (2.899%) XSL
9 4 (2.899%) CSS
10 3 (2.174%) COM
11 2 (1.449%) SOAP
12 1 (0.725%) Grails
12 1 (0.725%) Spring
12 1 (0.725%) Hibernate
12 1 (0.725%) WSDL
12 1 (0.725%) XML Schema
12 1 (0.725%) JAXB
Application Platforms
1 40 (28.99%) CICS
2 24 (17.39%) Apache
3 21 (15.22%) SAS
4 16 (11.59%) Tomcat
5 12 (8.696%) WebSphere Application Server
6 9 (6.522%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 9 (6.522%) WebSphere Portal
6 9 (6.522%) IBM HTTP Server
6 9 (6.522%) WebSphere Process Server
7 7 (5.072%) WebLogic
8 5 (3.623%) Adobe CQ
9 4 (2.899%) MQSeries
9 4 (2.899%) GlassFish
10 3 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
10 3 (2.174%) Lotus Notes
11 2 (1.449%) ESB
12 1 (0.725%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.246%) MS Office
2 8 (5.797%) MS Excel
3 4 (2.899%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.449%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 3 (2.174%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.14%) Intranet
1 14 (10.14%) Internet
2 12 (8.696%) HTTP
3 6 (4.348%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.174%) SSH
4 3 (2.174%) Firewall
4 3 (2.174%) LAN
4 3 (2.174%) WAN
5 2 (1.449%) SMTP
5 2 (1.449%) SNA
5 2 (1.449%) SAN
6 1 (0.725%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (38.41%) DB2
2 18 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.971%) RDBMS
4 7 (5.072%) NonStop SQL
5 4 (2.899%) IDMS
5 4 (2.899%) Base SAS
6 3 (2.174%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (7.246%) ClearCase
1 10 (7.246%) Eclipse
2 4 (2.899%) Visual Studio
3 3 (2.174%) ClearQuest
4 2 (1.449%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (1.449%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.449%) Subversion
4 2 (1.449%) TortoiseSVN
5 1 (0.725%) JUnit
General
1 52 (37.68%) Finance
2 36 (26.09%) Banking
3 16 (11.59%) Marketing
4 8 (5.797%) Telecoms
4 8 (5.797%) Advertising
4 8 (5.797%) Retail
5 7 (5.072%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.899%) Spanish Language
6 4 (2.899%) Wholesale Banking
7 3 (2.174%) Retail Banking
7 3 (2.174%) Private Banking
7 3 (2.174%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.449%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.725%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (20.29%) Programmer
2 23 (16.67%) Systems Programmer
3 22 (15.94%) Consultant
4 19 (13.77%) Mainframe Programmer
5 17 (12.32%) Developer
6 14 (10.14%) Analyst
7 11 (7.971%) Architect
7 11 (7.971%) Technical Consultant
8 10 (7.246%) Capacity Manager
9 8 (5.797%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.797%) Operations Manager
9 8 (5.797%) Implementation Consultant
10 7 (5.072%) Mainframe Consultant
10 7 (5.072%) Design Engineer
10 7 (5.072%) Technical Architect
11 6 (4.348%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.623%) Mainframe Architect
12 5 (3.623%) Service Manager
12 5 (3.623%) Web Analyst
12 5 (3.623%) WebSphere Developer
Miscellaneous
1 96 (69.57%) Mainframe
2 18 (13.04%) IBM Mainframe
3 14 (10.14%) iSeries
3 14 (10.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 12 (8.696%) Credit Risk
5 11 (7.971%) SWIFT
6 7 (5.072%) Computer Science
6 7 (5.072%) VSAM
6 7 (5.072%) AS400
7 5 (3.623%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.899%) e-Health
8 4 (2.899%) Statistics
8 4 (2.899%) Data Integration
9 3 (2.174%) LPAR
9 3 (2.174%) Online Banking
9 3 (2.174%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.725%) Clustering
10 1 (0.725%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 82 (59.42%) Windows
2 74 (53.62%) UNIX
3 44 (31.88%) Linux
4 28 (20.29%) MVS
5 20 (14.49%) Solaris
6 18 (13.04%) AIX
7 8 (5.797%) VME
8 6 (4.348%) VMS
9 4 (2.899%) OpenVMS
9 4 (2.899%) SUSE
9 4 (2.899%) i5/OS
10 3 (2.174%) HPUX
11 2 (1.449%) Windows NT
11 2 (1.449%) Windows 2000 Server
12 1 (0.725%) OS/390
12 1 (0.725%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (24.64%) ITIL
2 19 (13.77%) Project Management
3 17 (12.32%) E-Commerce
3 17 (12.32%) Enterprise Architecture
4 12 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (7.971%) Change Management
6 10 (7.246%) Capacity Management
6 10 (7.246%) Waterfall
7 9 (6.522%) Configuration Management
7 9 (6.522%) Capacity Planning
8 8 (5.797%) Service Delivery
8 8 (5.797%) Investment Management
8 8 (5.797%) Incident Management
9 7 (5.072%) Problem Management
9 7 (5.072%) Asset Management
9 7 (5.072%) Validation
9 7 (5.072%) SOA
9 7 (5.072%) Workflow
9 7 (5.072%) Risk Management
10 5 (3.623%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (23.19%) JCL
2 31 (22.46%) REXX
3 20 (14.49%) Java
4 10 (7.246%) SQL
5 9 (6.522%) Assembly Language
6 7 (5.072%) Python
6 7 (5.072%) C++
6 7 (5.072%) COBOL
7 6 (4.348%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.348%) Perl
7 6 (4.348%) C
8 5 (3.623%) Jython
8 5 (3.623%) C#
8 5 (3.623%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.899%) VB
9 4 (2.899%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.449%) VBA
11 1 (0.725%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (10.87%) Degree
2 5 (3.623%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (2.899%) ISEB
3 4 (2.899%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.449%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.348%) QA
2 2 (1.449%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.797%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.348%) RACF
3 3 (2.174%) XenApp
3 3 (2.174%) XenServer
3 3 (2.174%) vSphere
4 2 (1.449%) OpenSSH
5 1 (0.725%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.725%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (6.522%) OMEGAMON
2 8 (5.797%) Tivoli
3 6 (4.348%) OpenView
3 6 (4.348%) Unicenter
3 6 (4.348%) BMC PATROL
3 6 (4.348%) SCCM
3 6 (4.348%) SCOM
4 4 (2.899%) HP SIM
5 2 (1.449%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.725%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.725%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.725%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 83 (60.14%) IBM
2 26 (18.84%) BMC
3 22 (15.94%) CA
4 21 (15.22%) Citrix
5 19 (13.77%) HP
6 18 (13.04%) VMware
7 15 (10.87%) EMC
8 14 (10.14%) Microsoft
9 13 (9.420%) Oracle
10 7 (5.072%) ICL
11 5 (3.623%) Adobe
12 4 (2.899%) JBoss
12 4 (2.899%) Red Hat
13 3 (2.174%) Teradata
13 3 (2.174%) NetApp
13 3 (2.174%) Lotus
13 3 (2.174%) Unisys
13 3 (2.174%) Cisco
14 2 (1.449%) SAP
14 2 (1.449%) Hitachi
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