IBM z/OS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for zOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited zOS over the 6 months to 30 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 702 1064 1039
Rank change year-on-year +362 -25 -304
Permanent jobs citing zOS 25 26 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.021% 0.050%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.27% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 38
10th Percentile - - £53,375
25th Percentile £63,353 £45,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,669 £59,526 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% -3.99% -8.15%
75th Percentile £96,539 £63,292 £85,000
90th Percentile - £77,054 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,669 £59,526 £60,000
% change year-on-year +27.12% -0.79% -

All Operating Systems
UK

zOS is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 9,327 21,034 22,389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.32% 16.64% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,265 13,951 16,124
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the UK

zOS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for zOS in the UK

zOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing zOS over the 6 months to 30 November 2023.

Salary histogram for zOS in the UK

zOS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 November 2023. 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 +246 21 £75,669 +27.12% 13
Work from Home +259 18 £65,066 +16.68% 5
England +321 17 £71,000 +19.28% 15
North of England +154 12 £71,000 +19.28% 11
Yorkshire +86 9 £65,066 +9.31% 7
Scotland +58 7 £75,669 +52.10%
London +282 3 £65,066 +4.10% 4
North West - 3 £71,000 - 4
South East - 1 £95,000 - 2
South West - 1 £92,778 -

zOS
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 5 (20.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) DB2
2 2 (8.00%) Easytrieve
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.00%) Git
3 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (88.00%) Banking
1 22 (88.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (28.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Programmer
1 11 (44.00%) Systems Programmer
1 11 (44.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DB2 DBA
4 2 (8.00%) DBA
4 2 (8.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Middleware
2 4 (16.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) ISPF
3 2 (8.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 2 (8.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (92.00%) Mainframe
2 10 (40.00%) Robotics
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (8.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (8.00%) VSAM
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 7 (28.00%) CoreOS
3 7 (28.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (40.00%) Coaching
3 10 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
3 10 (40.00%) Data Science
3 10 (40.00%) DevOps
3 10 (40.00%) Incident Management
3 10 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 10 (40.00%) Organisational Awareness
4 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (28.00%) Thought Leadership
5 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) SDLC
6 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (8.00%) Business Strategy
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Experience
7 2 (8.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) COBOL
1 7 (28.00%) JCL
2 5 (20.00%) REXX
3 3 (12.00%) Assembly Language
3 3 (12.00%) PL/1
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (28.00%) Docker
3 2 (8.00%) RACF
3 2 (8.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) CA Endevor
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) IBM
2 10 (40.00%) TOWER Software
3 7 (28.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) BMC