zOS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM z/OS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 553 645
Rank change year-on-year +100 +92 +141
Permanent jobs citing zOS 11 41 18
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.12% 0.044%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.41% 0.88% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 37 13
10th Percentile £61,446 - -
25th Percentile £64,621 £42,139 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £87,610 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% +59.63% -5.26%
75th Percentile £140,677 £92,000 £71,652
90th Percentile - £122,644 -
UK median annual salary £51,250 £87,610 £64,029
% change year-on-year -41.50% +36.83% +10.53%

All Operating Systems
Work from Home

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,678 4,635 6,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 14.39% 13.72% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 3,583 4,596
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,525 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £39,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £82,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

zOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

zOS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

zOS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing zOS.

zOS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

zOS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing zOS over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

zOS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SNA
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Engineering Manager
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Manager
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering Manager
2 6 (54.55%) Software Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Programmer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Self-Motivation
1 6 (54.55%) Virtual Team
2 5 (45.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 7 (63.64%) Risk Management
2 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Batch Scheduling
3 6 (54.55%) ITIL
3 6 (54.55%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Network Management
4 2 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Technology Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Batch Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (9.09%) IT Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Presales
5 1 (9.09%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JCL
2 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
2 1 (9.09%) REXX
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (9.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (9.09%) CA Service Virtualization
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Syncsort