zOS Jobs in London

IBM z/OS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring zOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited zOS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 475 595
Rank change year-on-year +97 +120 +304
Permanent jobs citing zOS 18 26 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.11% 0.053%
As % of the Operating Systems category 1.05% 0.87% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 8 24 15
10th Percentile - £61,250 £56,100
25th Percentile - £83,230 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £87,610 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.93% +34.78% -3.70%
75th Percentile - £122,500 £67,500
90th Percentile - £122,861 -
England median annual salary £51,250 £87,610 £64,029
% change year-on-year -41.50% +36.83% +26.79%

All Operating Systems
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,722 2,988 5,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 13.47% 12.44% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,145 2,253 3,942
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £89,852
90th Percentile £110,000 £103,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in London

zOS
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing zOS in London.

Salary trend for zOS in London

zOS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
West London +24 8 £50,000 -
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) CICS
2 2 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (5.56%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) ATM
2 1 (5.56%) FTP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
1 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (11.11%) IntelliJ
2 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Banking
1 10 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Architect
1 11 (61.11%) Mainframe Architect
2 8 (44.44%) Payments Architect
2 8 (44.44%) Payments Solutions Architect
2 8 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
1 2 (11.11%) SOAP
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) WSDL
2 1 (5.56%) ISPF
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Mainframe
2 9 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.56%) Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (5.56%) iSeries
5 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) API Integration
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 2 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Refactoring
5 2 (11.11%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 2 (11.11%) SOA
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) COBOL
2 5 (27.78%) JCL
3 2 (11.11%) Assembly Language
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) REXX
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Natural
4 1 (5.56%) PL/1
4 1 (5.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (5.56%) ACF2
2 1 (5.56%) RACF
2 1 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) CA Endevor
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (77.78%) IBM
2 1 (5.56%) Cincom
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.56%) Syncsort