Time Sharing Option Jobs

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Time Sharing Option skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 724 868 883
Rank change year-on-year +144 +15 +402
Permanent jobs citing Time Sharing Option 11 18 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.017% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.17% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 13
10th Percentile £65,750 - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +30.65%
75th Percentile £88,750 - £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 6,664 11,298 13,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.09% 10.95% 15.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,911 8,639 9,380
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £27,977
25th Percentile £34,625 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%

Time Sharing Option
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK

Time Sharing Option
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Time Sharing Option.

Salary trend for Time Sharing Option in the UK

Time Sharing Option
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Time Sharing Option in the UK

Time Sharing Option
Top 8 Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 July 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
England +154 11 £75,000 +7.14% 14
London +114 6 £87,500 +25.00% 5
UK excluding London +147 5 £72,500 - 10
North of England +55 4 £70,000 - 9
Yorkshire +46 4 £70,000 - 4
Work from Home +102 2 £52,500 - 8
Midlands - 1 £75,000 -
West Midlands - 1 £75,000 -

Time Sharing Option
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Financial Institution
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) DB2 Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Programmer
3 1 (9.09%) Storage Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) YAML
2 3 (27.27%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Data Centre
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (27.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) zOS
2 2 (18.18%) Linux
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Storage Management
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
3 2 (18.18%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Presales
4 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
4 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) JCL
2 9 (81.82%) REXX
3 8 (72.73%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (9.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) IBM
2 8 (72.73%) Broadcom
2 8 (72.73%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Brocade
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Syncsort