The first table below looks at the demand for ISPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 19 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 10 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.543% - -
As % of the Application Development category 1.209% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Average salary £44,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £44,500 £25,000
% change year-on-year
-10.11% +78.00%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
827 1085 909
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 44.95% 50.19% 52.18%
Number of salaries quoted 698 988 828
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
ISPF
North West

ISPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ISPF Jobs Demand Trend

ISPF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ISPF across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire ISPF Salary Trend

ISPF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Chester - 8 - -
ISPF
North West

ISPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ISPF.

1 10 (100.00%) JCL
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 8 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Financial Institution
3 8 (80.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (80.00%) Retail Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Private Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Online Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Asset Management
3 8 (80.00%) Wealth Management
3 8 (80.00%) Investment Management
3 8 (80.00%) DB2
4 6 (60.00%) UNIX
4 6 (60.00%) AIX
4 6 (60.00%) Mainframe
5 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
5 5 (50.00%) Windows
5 5 (50.00%) ITIL
6 4 (40.00%) MS Office
6 4 (40.00%) MQSeries
6 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
6 4 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (40.00%) CICS
6 4 (40.00%) zOS
6 4 (40.00%) MVS
6 4 (40.00%) LPAR

ISPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ISPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) MQSeries
1 4 (40.00%) CICS
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (40.00%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Maximo
2 1 (10.00%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DMZ
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Retail
3 8 (80.00%) Investment Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Financial Institution
3 8 (80.00%) Retail Banking
3 8 (80.00%) Private Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Management Consultant
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Incident Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Online Banking
2 6 (60.00%) Mainframe
3 4 (40.00%) LPAR
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) UNIX
1 6 (60.00%) AIX
2 5 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) zOS
3 4 (40.00%) MVS
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 8 (80.00%) Asset Management
1 8 (80.00%) Wealth Management
1 8 (80.00%) Investment Management
2 5 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Management
4 1 (10.00%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) VBA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (40.00%) CA Endevor
1 4 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (10.00%) Sun
3 1 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Axway
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