ISPF Contracts in Scotland

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for ISPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ISPF over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £460 £475 £535
% change year-on-year -3.16% -11.21% +13.83%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

ISPF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 473 689 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.20% 24.11% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 525 485
10th Percentile £340 £406 £360
25th Percentile £411 £438 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +2.11% +11.76%
75th Percentile £569 £545 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 10
10th Percentile £33.58 £49.99 £37.73
25th Percentile £44.94 £53.38 £41.89
Median hourly rate £53.75 £59.03 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +24.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.52 £49.34
90th Percentile - £67.81 £56.75
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ISPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in Scotland

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISPF in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ISPF in Scotland

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 6 £500 -
ISPF
UK

ISPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 6 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JCL
1 6 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (33.33%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (33.33%) ACF2
2 2 (33.33%) RACF
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) BMC
1 6 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 6 (100.00%) IBM