zOS Jobs in the North of England

IBM z/OS
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 405 457
Rank change year-on-year +1 +52 -90
Permanent jobs citing zOS 8 18 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.040% 0.11% 0.063%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.35% 0.77% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 15 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,139 £41,250 £35,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £44,005 £71,652 £62,833
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £87,610 £64,029 £55,263
% change year-on-year +36.83% +15.86% -7.90%

All Operating Systems
North of England

zOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 2,302 2,324 3,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.47% 14.79% 19.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 1,437 2,428
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £23,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,345 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +4.34% -5.56%
75th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for zOS in the North of England

zOS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +54 6 - -
North East - 1 £43,072 -
North West - 1 £43,072 -
zOS
England

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (37.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DWDM
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (37.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (12.50%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) ISPF
2 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (12.50%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Cost Management
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) JCL
1 6 (75.00%) REXX
2 3 (37.50%) Assembly Language
3 1 (12.50%) CLIST
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (37.50%) ACF2
2 3 (37.50%) RACF
3 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (12.50%) Microcode
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 5 (62.50%) Broadcom
3 4 (50.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (12.50%) CA
4 1 (12.50%) Dell