ISPF Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for ISPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Rank 198 - 244
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% - 0.010%
As % of the Application Development category 0.055% - 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £315 £265
% change year-on-year
+34.92% +18.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ISPF
London

ISPF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ISPF across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London ISPF Jobs Demand Trend

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ISPF across the City of London region.

City of London ISPF Daily Rate Trend

ISPF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ISPF across the City of London region.

City of London ISPF Hourly Rate Trend

ISPF
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ISPF also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ISPF.

1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) REXX
2 2 (66.67%) JCL
3 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CA
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) MS Access
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (33.33%) SAS
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
3 1 (33.33%) DMAIC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management

ISPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ISPF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ISPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) MS Access
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Six Sigma
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) DMAIC
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) System Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) REXX
1 2 (66.67%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
2 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
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