The first table below looks at the demand for zOS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited zOS over the 3 months to 20 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM z/OS
Rank - 211 188
Permanent jobs citing zOS 0 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire - 0.057% 0.162%
As % of the Operating Systems category - 0.235% 0.580%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 5
Average salary - £24,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -36.84%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +11.84%
All Operating Systems
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
1403 1274 1380
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.58% 24.38% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1089 1030 1145
Average salary £32,000 £34,750 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.91% +12.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £20,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
zOS
England

zOS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire zOS Salary Trend

zOS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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%) Java EE
2 1 (33.33%) Grails
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) WSDL
2 1 (33.33%) XML Schema
2 1 (33.33%) JAXB
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) GlassFish
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
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%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Environment Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Java Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) W3C
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%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) V-Model
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
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%) Unisys
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat