zOS Jobs in the North of England

IBM z/OS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 380 411
Rank change year-on-year +64 +31 +26
Permanent jobs citing zOS 13 11 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.063% 0.11%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.81% 0.49% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile £65,750 - -
25th Percentile £90,801 £42,139 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £71,000 £48,250
Median % change year-on-year +72.92% +47.15% +28.50%
75th Percentile £140,677 £74,000 £71,652
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £87,610 £64,029
% change year-on-year -42.93% +36.83% +26.79%

All Operating Systems
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 1,603 2,252 2,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.87% 12.87% 13.67%
Number of salaries quoted 739 1,761 1,501
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,000 £24,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,931
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £71,652
England median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing zOS in the North of England.

Salary trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing zOS in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +75 11 £122,773 - 1
North West 0 2 £94,637 +33.29%
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (15.38%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) DB2
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (7.69%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (84.62%) Banking
2 9 (69.23%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Senior
2 6 (46.15%) Engineering Manager
2 6 (46.15%) Senior Manager
2 6 (46.15%) Software Engineering Manager
2 6 (46.15%) Software Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) DB2 Administrator
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Programmer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Storage Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ISPF
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (46.15%) Virtual Team
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.69%) iSeries
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) Risk Management
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
3 6 (46.15%) Batch Scheduling
3 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 6 (46.15%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.69%) API Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Coaching
6 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 1 (7.69%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Scrum
6 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) JCL
2 1 (7.69%) COBOL
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) CA Endevor
2 1 (7.69%) CA Service Virtualization
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) MAINVIEW
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) BMC
2 1 (7.69%) Broadcom
2 1 (7.69%) Brocade
2 1 (7.69%) Dell