The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 23 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 for the West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank - 165 150
Permanent jobs citing zOS 0 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.031% 0.066%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.128% 0.236%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
Average salary - £28,000 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -23.80%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.84%
All Operating Systems
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
890 779 846
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 24.50% 24.27% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 738 641 712
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
zOS
Yorkshire

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire zOS Jobs Demand Trend

zOS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing zOS across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) CICS
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) W3C
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Solaris
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Unisys
3 1 (33.33%) WSDL
3 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) JAXB
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) DB2
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) Grails
3 1 (33.33%) GlassFish

zOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) WSDL
2 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
2 1 (33.33%) JAXB
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Grails
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Environment Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) V-Model
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) Unisys
1 1 (33.33%) IBM