IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 706 824
Rank change year-on-year +165 +118 -166
Contract jobs citing ISPF 53 10 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.017% 0.035%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.072% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 3 12
10th Percentile £402 - £428
25th Percentile £430 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -11.21% +1.90%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £569
90th Percentile - £618 £642
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,875 13,886 24,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 23.26% 27.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,163 10,138 17,667
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 153 241
10th Percentile £21.01 £31.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.84 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.81% +30.61% +8.89%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISPF over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +151 43 £430 -9.47% 2
UK excluding London +104 42 £450 -5.26%
North of England +66 36 £430 -9.47%
Yorkshire +57 36 £430 -9.47%
Work from Home +148 27 £500 -
Scotland - 6 £500 -
London +106 5 £670 - 2

ISPF
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 26 (49.06%) SAS
2 4 (7.55%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.55%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) DB2
General
1 38 (71.70%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.89%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Programmer
2 21 (39.62%) Systems Programmer
2 21 (39.62%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 10 (18.87%) z/OS Engineer
4 7 (13.21%) z/OS Specialist
5 5 (9.43%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Hardware Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Mainframe Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Backend Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Administrator
8 2 (3.77%) Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Hardware Specialist
8 2 (3.77%) Senior
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Mainframe Developer
9 1 (1.89%) AWS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 52 (98.11%) Mainframe
2 13 (24.53%) LPAR
3 7 (13.21%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 53 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Risk Management
2 25 (47.17%) Performance Monitoring
3 5 (9.43%) Workflow
4 4 (7.55%) Change Data Capture
4 4 (7.55%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (3.77%) Capacity Management
5 2 (3.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (3.77%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (1.89%) Data Protection
6 1 (1.89%) Problem Management
6 1 (1.89%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (94.34%) JCL
2 42 (79.25%) REXX
3 22 (41.51%) Assembly Language
4 14 (26.42%) CLIST
5 4 (7.55%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 49 (92.45%) Time Sharing Option
2 17 (32.08%) ACF2
2 17 (32.08%) RACF
3 13 (24.53%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 13 (24.53%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 24 (45.28%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (7.55%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) IBM
2 28 (52.83%) Broadcom
3 19 (35.85%) Splunk
4 8 (15.09%) CA
5 7 (13.21%) BMC
6 1 (1.89%) Dell
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft