zOS Jobs in the UK excluding London

IBM z/OS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 764 706 823
Rank change year-on-year -58 +117 -126
Permanent jobs citing zOS 16 22 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.040% 0.067%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.15% 0.24% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10 19 35
10th Percentile £42,046 - £36,645
25th Percentile £42,139 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,072 £54,882 £57,931
Median % change year-on-year -21.52% -5.26% +15.86%
75th Percentile £44,005 £71,652 £65,313
90th Percentile - £73,831 £68,275
UK median annual salary £87,610 £64,029 £57,931
% change year-on-year +36.83% +10.53% -3.45%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 11,018 9,360 15,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.75% 16.94% 19.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,240 5,927 9,227
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,052 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +5.00%

zOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing zOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing zOS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for zOS in the UK excluding London

zOS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing zOS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +1 8 £43,072 +1.35%
Yorkshire +54 6 - -
South West - 4 £43,072 -
Midlands - 3 £43,072 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £43,072 -
Wales - 1 £43,072 -
North East - 1 £43,072 -
North West - 1 £43,072 -
East Midlands - 1 £43,072 - 4
zOS
UK

zOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (18.75%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DB2
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Programmer
2 3 (18.75%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (18.75%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) DB2 Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) DB2 DBA
3 1 (6.25%) DBA
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Support
3 1 (6.25%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Storage Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) ISPF
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 11 (68.75%) Data Centre
3 9 (56.25%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (6.25%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 10 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) Information Security
4 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Risk Management
6 1 (6.25%) Agile
6 1 (6.25%) Cost Management
6 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
6 1 (6.25%) Project Management
6 1 (6.25%) Service Design
6 1 (6.25%) Service Management
6 1 (6.25%) Software Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) JCL
1 6 (37.50%) REXX
2 3 (18.75%) Assembly Language
3 1 (6.25%) CLIST
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (18.75%) ACF2
2 3 (18.75%) RACF
3 1 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (6.25%) Microcode
3 1 (6.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) IBM
2 5 (31.25%) Broadcom
3 4 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Brocade
4 1 (6.25%) CA
4 1 (6.25%) Dell
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft