The first table below looks at the demand for ISPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Manchester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Rank 68 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.103% 0.324% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.339% 1.081% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £443 £265
% change year-on-year
- +66.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.50 -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
295 370 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.26% 30.01% 27.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 202 163
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 16 17
Average hourly rate £29.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+48.71% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £16.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
ISPF
North West

ISPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester ISPF Daily Rate Trend

ISPF
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (100.00%) zOS
2 3 (75.00%) JCL
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (75.00%) REXX
3 2 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) DB2
3 2 (50.00%) IBM
3 2 (50.00%) CA
4 1 (25.00%) COBOL
4 1 (25.00%) CICS
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (25.00%) SAS
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) RACF
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (25.00%) VSAM

ISPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (25.00%) SAS
1 1 (25.00%) CICS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DBA
1 2 (50.00%) DB2 DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) REXX
1 3 (75.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) COBOL
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
1 2 (50.00%) CA
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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