zOS Job Trends in Bicester

IBM z/OS
Oxfordshire > Bicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bicester requiring zOS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing zOS 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bicester 2.50% - -
As % of the Operating Systems category 25.00% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £60,000 - -

All Operating Systems
Bicester

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in Bicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 4 1 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bicester 10.00% 7.69% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 16
10th Percentile £37,200 - £29,750
25th Percentile £50,250 - £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £42,500
90th Percentile £66,000 - -
Oxfordshire median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.76% +10.39%

zOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bicester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ChangeMan
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor