IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ISPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ISPF over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 966 1217
Rank change year-on-year +94 +251 -300
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 5 12 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.024% 0.038% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 6
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile - £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile - £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - - £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,058 31,283 63,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.13% 40.47%
Number of salaries quoted 15,741 19,277 30,292
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ISPF.

Salary trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 5 - - 3
UK excluding London - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
Yorkshire - 5 - -
Work from Home +95 3 - - 1

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 3 (60.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DWDM
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Programmer
1 3 (60.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (60.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JCL
1 5 (100.00%) REXX
2 3 (60.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (20.00%) CLIST
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (60.00%) ACF2
2 3 (60.00%) RACF
3 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (20.00%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (80.00%) Broadcom
2 4 (80.00%) Splunk