The first table below looks at the demand for ISPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 21 May 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Rank 825 849 848
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -1
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 22 7 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.006% 0.012%
As % of the Application Development category 0.053% 0.015% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 7
Average salary £40,000 £44,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.11% +11.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £35,750 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £45,250 £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £44,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +17.33%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41391 48120 46855
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.73% 42.30% 40.54%
Number of salaries quoted 36371 42977 41535
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ISPF
UK

ISPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England ISPF Salary Trend

ISPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISPF across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England ISPF Salary Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
North West - 9 £40,000 -
East Midlands - 6 £50,000 -
Yorkshire -7 3 £39,500 -4.24%
South East - 3 £62,500 -
Midlands - 1 - -
ISPF
UK

ISPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 36 (87.80%) JCL
2 34 (82.93%) Mainframe
3 33 (80.49%) REXX
4 29 (70.73%) DB2
5 28 (68.29%) zOS
6 26 (63.41%) IBM
7 24 (58.54%) MVS
8 21 (51.22%) CICS
9 20 (48.78%) BMC
9 20 (48.78%) CA
9 20 (48.78%) ITIL
10 18 (43.90%) Linux
11 16 (39.02%) Finance
12 14 (34.15%) UNIX
13 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (29.27%) Marketing
13 12 (29.27%) Credit Risk
14 9 (21.95%) SAS
15 8 (19.51%) Windows
15 8 (19.51%) Tivoli
15 8 (19.51%) Banking
16 7 (17.07%) Financial Institution
16 7 (17.07%) IBM Mainframe
17 6 (14.63%) Investment Management
17 6 (14.63%) Retail
17 6 (14.63%) Asset Management
17 6 (14.63%) Wealth Management
17 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
17 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
17 6 (14.63%) Retail Banking

ISPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 Platforms
1 21 (51.22%) CICS
2 9 (21.95%) SAS
3 3 (7.317%) MQSeries
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Office
1 3 (7.317%) MS Visio
1 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.878%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.317%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) SSH
1 3 (7.317%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (70.73%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) ChangeMan
General
1 16 (39.02%) Finance
2 12 (29.27%) Marketing
3 8 (19.51%) Banking
4 7 (17.07%) Financial Institution
5 6 (14.63%) Retail
5 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
5 6 (14.63%) Retail Banking
5 6 (14.63%) Private Banking
6 3 (7.317%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (56.10%) Programmer
2 20 (48.78%) Systems Programmer
3 16 (39.02%) Mainframe Programmer
4 8 (19.51%) Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) Incident Analyst
6 3 (7.317%) Software Programmer
6 3 (7.317%) Security Analyst
6 3 (7.317%) Management Consultant
6 3 (7.317%) Mainframe Consultant
7 2 (4.878%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.439%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (82.93%) Mainframe
2 12 (29.27%) Credit Risk
3 7 (17.07%) IBM Mainframe
4 6 (14.63%) Online Banking
5 3 (7.317%) VSAM
5 3 (7.317%) LPAR
5 3 (7.317%) Digital Media
6 2 (4.878%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) zOS
2 24 (58.54%) MVS
3 18 (43.90%) Linux
4 14 (34.15%) UNIX
5 8 (19.51%) Windows
6 3 (7.317%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) ITIL
2 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (14.63%) Investment Management
3 6 (14.63%) Asset Management
3 6 (14.63%) Wealth Management
3 6 (14.63%) Risk Management
4 5 (12.20%) Incident Management
5 3 (7.317%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (4.878%) Release Management
6 2 (4.878%) Web Testing
6 2 (4.878%) Time Management
6 2 (4.878%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.878%) SOA
6 2 (4.878%) Change Management
6 2 (4.878%) Problem Management
6 2 (4.878%) Resource Management
7 1 (2.439%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) JCL
2 33 (80.49%) REXX
3 6 (14.63%) Assembly Language
4 3 (7.317%) C++
5 2 (4.878%) COBOL
5 2 (4.878%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (7.317%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Tivoli
2 4 (9.756%) CA Endevor
3 3 (7.317%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (4.878%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (63.41%) IBM
2 20 (48.78%) BMC
2 20 (48.78%) CA
3 3 (7.317%) Teradata
3 3 (7.317%) Microsoft
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