Time Sharing Option Job Trends in England

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 682 671
Rank change year-on-year +97 -11 +280
Permanent jobs citing Time Sharing Option 8 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.015% 0.002% 0.017%
As % of the System Software category 0.21% 0.016% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 - £59,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.94%
75th Percentile £88,750 - £74,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £87,500 - £59,250
% change year-on-year - - +13.94%

All System Software Skills
England

Time Sharing Option falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,792 6,257 7,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 7.30% 12.80% 16.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,789 3,765 6,408
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,013 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.52% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -1.35%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Time Sharing Option relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Time Sharing Option job vacancy trend in England

Time Sharing Option
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Time Sharing Option.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Time Sharing Option

Time Sharing Option
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Time Sharing Option within the England region over the 6 months to 4 January 2026. 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
London - 8 £87,500 -
Time Sharing Option
UK

Time Sharing Option
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) DB2
1 1 (12.50%) IMS/DB
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IBM Storage Engineer
1 7 (87.50%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Data Centre
1 7 (87.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Cost Optimisation
1 7 (87.50%) Storage Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mapping
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JCL
2 7 (87.50%) Python
2 7 (87.50%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) PL/1
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 7 (87.50%) Broadcom
2 7 (87.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) Syncsort