IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Time Sharing Option skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 976 1209
Rank change year-on-year +104 +233 -328
Permanent jobs citing Time Sharing Option 22 17 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.016% 0.002%
As % of the System Software category 0.18% 0.11% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile - - £55,500
25th Percentile £68,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 - £70,000

All System Software Skills
UK

Time Sharing Option is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12,311 16,003 28,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.54% 15.27% 18.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9,774 10,604 15,754
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

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
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 26 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +12 20 £71,000 -
England +118 11 £71,000 +9.23% 3
Scotland -53 11 - -
North of England - 9 £71,000 -
Work from Home +90 7 £71,000 +36.54%
Yorkshire - 6 - -
North West - 3 £71,000 -
London +133 2 £70,000 +7.69% 3

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 14 (63.64%) CICS
2 3 (13.64%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) DB2
2 3 (13.64%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) ChangeMan
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
1 11 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 11 (50.00%) Law
1 11 (50.00%) Marketing
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
3 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 11 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) DB2 DBA
2 3 (13.64%) DBA
2 3 (13.64%) Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (13.64%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Storage Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (4.55%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Storage Manager
3 1 (4.55%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) ISPF
2 3 (13.64%) XML
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (72.73%) Mainframe
2 14 (63.64%) VSAM
3 11 (50.00%) Reference Data
4 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.55%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) zOS
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Agile
2 11 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 11 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 11 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 11 (50.00%) SDLC
2 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Performance Monitoring
4 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
5 3 (13.64%) Business Strategy
5 3 (13.64%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (13.64%) Change Management
5 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.64%) Project Management
5 3 (13.64%) Storage Management
5 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.09%) Cost Management
6 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) JCL
2 14 (63.64%) COBOL
3 11 (50.00%) Java
4 9 (40.91%) REXX
5 3 (13.64%) Assembly Language
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) CLIST
6 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) RACF
2 3 (13.64%) ACF2
2 3 (13.64%) NFS
3 1 (4.55%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (4.55%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (13.64%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) IBM
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Broadcom
3 4 (18.18%) Splunk
4 3 (13.64%) BMC
4 3 (13.64%) Brocade
4 3 (13.64%) CA
4 3 (13.64%) Dell