zOS Jobs in England

IBM z/OS
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 798 872 1131
Rank change year-on-year +74 +259 -239
Permanent jobs citing zOS 45 36 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.043% 0.031%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.36% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 37 31 23
10th Percentile - £41,250 £35,075
25th Percentile £42,139 £46,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,610 £64,029 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.83% +25.55% -15.00%
75th Percentile £92,000 £67,500 £69,375
90th Percentile £122,644 £71,652 £72,500
UK median annual salary £87,610 £64,029 £57,931
% change year-on-year +36.83% +10.53% -3.45%

All Operating Systems
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for operating system skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 12,601 13,824 27,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.79% 16.44% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,807 9,532 14,932
10th Percentile £25,760 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £35,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,652 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £88,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in England

zOS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for zOS in England

zOS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing zOS in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for zOS in England

zOS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
London +109 26 £87,610 +34.78% 9
North of England +15 8 £43,072 -10.73% 1
Yorkshire +51 6 - -
South West - 4 £43,072 - 1
Midlands - 3 £43,072 - 6
West Midlands - 2 £43,072 -
North West -12 1 £43,072 -20.24% 1
North East - 1 £43,072 -
East Midlands - 1 £43,072 - 6
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (6.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Postilion
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) GCP
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon S3
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (2.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) ATM
1 1 (2.22%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (53.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (31.11%) DB2
3 12 (26.67%) BigQuery
3 12 (26.67%) Data Hub
3 12 (26.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 12 (26.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (57.78%) Banking
3 25 (55.56%) Finance
4 20 (44.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Lead
1 12 (26.67%) Technical Leader
2 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Database Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Programmer
4 4 (8.89%) Security Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Systems Programmer
4 4 (8.89%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 1 (2.22%) Administrator
5 1 (2.22%) DB2 Administrator
5 1 (2.22%) IBM Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) IBM Storage Specialist
5 1 (2.22%) Mainframe Support
5 1 (2.22%) Payments Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Payments Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Remote Support Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) Storage Manager
5 1 (2.22%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.22%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) Kafka
2 8 (17.78%) Middleware
3 6 (13.33%) ISPF
4 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Cyberattack
1 20 (44.44%) Data Fabric
2 17 (37.78%) Mainframe
3 16 (35.56%) Public Cloud
4 11 (24.44%) Data Centre
5 10 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
6 8 (17.78%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (17.78%) Replication
7 4 (8.89%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (2.22%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Linux
2 24 (53.33%) Windows
3 12 (26.67%) CentOS
3 12 (26.67%) Solaris
3 12 (26.67%) Ubuntu
3 12 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 24 (53.33%) ETL
3 16 (35.56%) Incident Response
4 12 (26.67%) Analytics
4 12 (26.67%) Data Management
4 12 (26.67%) Database Optimisation
4 12 (26.67%) Key Management
4 12 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 11 (24.44%) Agile
6 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (20.00%) Information Security
8 8 (17.78%) Batch Processing
8 8 (17.78%) Data Encryption
9 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.33%) Risk Management
11 4 (8.89%) Data Security
11 4 (8.89%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Ethical Hacking
11 4 (8.89%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 4 (8.89%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) SQL
2 9 (20.00%) JCL
3 8 (17.78%) REXX
4 3 (6.67%) Assembly Language
5 1 (2.22%) CLIST
5 1 (2.22%) COBOL
5 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) CISM
3 4 (8.89%) CISSP
4 1 (2.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (8.89%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (6.67%) ACF2
2 3 (6.67%) NFS
2 3 (6.67%) RACF
3 1 (2.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.22%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (60.00%) IBM
2 12 (26.67%) Databricks
2 12 (26.67%) F5
2 12 (26.67%) Oracle
3 9 (20.00%) Splunk
4 8 (17.78%) Broadcom
5 4 (8.89%) Qualys
6 3 (6.67%) Brocade
6 3 (6.67%) CA
6 3 (6.67%) Dell
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft