IBM iSeries
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited iSeries over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 586 644 822
Rank change year-on-year +58 +178 -151
Contract jobs citing iSeries 4 59 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.100% 0.043%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.030% 0.30% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 33 26
10th Percentile £438 £353 £313
25th Percentile £465 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.25% -11.00%
75th Percentile £555 £631 £565
90th Percentile £582 £740 £576
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £553 £465
% change year-on-year +8.60% +18.82% +37.78%

All Generic Skills
UK

iSeries is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,163 19,732 29,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.34% 33.30% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,459 13,566 20,480
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £656
90th Percentile £788 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 907 640 723
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.05%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.05 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £20.07
% change year-on-year +29.55% +9.64% -16.40%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing iSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSeries over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSeries.

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England +85 3 £510 -1.45% 21
London +75 2 £420 -17.65% 10
Work from Home +89 1 - - 8
UK excluding London +34 1 £600 +8.60% 12
North of England +19 1 £600 -1.72% 7
Yorkshire +11 1 £600 -1.72%

iSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Private Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) RPG Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) RPG
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) IBM