The first table below looks at the demand for ISPF skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISPF over the 3 months to 17 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.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Rank 857 877 878
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +1
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 24 7 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.022% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Application Development category 0.054% 0.014% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 7
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £38,000 £24,200
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £45,300 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £44,500 £31,250
% change year-on-year
-10.11% +42.40%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44439 50146 50973
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.19% 41.67% 40.13%
Number of salaries quoted 38669 44472 45170
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%

ISPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

ISPF Jobs Demand Trend

ISPF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ISPF within the UK.

ISPF Salary Trend

ISPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISPF over the 3 months to 17 June 2013 within the UK.

ISPF Salary Histogram

ISPF
Top 15 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +54 24 £40,000 -11.11%
North West - 13 £40,000 -
Cheshire - 9 £48,500 -
Chester - 8 - -
Nottingham - 5 - -
Nottinghamshire - 5 - -
East Midlands - 5 - -
Manchester - 4 £40,000 -
South East - 3 £62,500 -
Hampshire - 3 £62,500 -
Southampton - 3 £62,500 -
Yorkshire -12 2 £39,500 -12.22%
Halifax - 2 £39,500 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £39,500 -
Midlands - 1 - -

ISPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 34 (89.47%) JCL
2 31 (81.58%) Mainframe
3 29 (76.32%) REXX
4 27 (71.05%) zOS
5 26 (68.42%) DB2
6 22 (57.89%) MVS
7 20 (52.63%) IBM
8 19 (50.00%) CICS
8 19 (50.00%) ITIL
9 18 (47.37%) Finance
10 17 (44.74%) BMC
10 17 (44.74%) CA
11 15 (39.47%) Linux
12 14 (36.84%) UNIX
13 10 (26.32%) SAS
13 10 (26.32%) Banking
14 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (23.68%) Financial Institution
14 9 (23.68%) Tivoli
14 9 (23.68%) Windows
14 9 (23.68%) Marketing
14 9 (23.68%) Credit Risk
15 8 (21.05%) Wealth Management
15 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
15 8 (21.05%) Retail Banking
15 8 (21.05%) Private Banking
15 8 (21.05%) Online Banking
15 8 (21.05%) Investment Management
15 8 (21.05%) Risk Management
15 8 (21.05%) Retail

ISPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 1 (2.632%) Middleware
1 1 (2.632%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 19 (50.00%) CICS
2 10 (26.32%) SAS
3 4 (10.53%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.632%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (2.632%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.632%) Apache
4 1 (2.632%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (2.632%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Visio
2 4 (10.53%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (10.53%) MS Office
2 4 (10.53%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.895%) FTP
1 3 (7.895%) SSH
2 1 (2.632%) HTTP
2 1 (2.632%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (68.42%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) ChangeMan
General
1 18 (47.37%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Banking
3 9 (23.68%) Financial Institution
3 9 (23.68%) Marketing
4 8 (21.05%) Retail
4 8 (21.05%) Investment Banking
4 8 (21.05%) Retail Banking
4 8 (21.05%) Private Banking
5 3 (7.895%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.632%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Programmer
2 16 (42.11%) Systems Programmer
3 13 (34.21%) Mainframe Programmer
4 8 (21.05%) Analyst
4 8 (21.05%) Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Management Consultant
5 4 (10.53%) Security Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Incident Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Mainframe Consultant
6 3 (7.895%) Software Programmer
7 2 (5.263%) Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.632%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.632%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 31 (81.58%) Mainframe
2 9 (23.68%) Credit Risk
3 8 (21.05%) Online Banking
4 4 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (10.53%) LPAR
5 3 (7.895%) Digital Media
5 3 (7.895%) VSAM
6 2 (5.263%) iSeries
7 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (71.05%) zOS
2 22 (57.89%) MVS
3 15 (39.47%) Linux
4 14 (36.84%) UNIX
5 9 (23.68%) Windows
6 5 (13.16%) AIX
7 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) ITIL
2 9 (23.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (21.05%) Asset Management
3 8 (21.05%) Risk Management
3 8 (21.05%) Wealth Management
3 8 (21.05%) Investment Management
4 6 (15.79%) Incident Management
5 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (5.263%) Change Management
6 2 (5.263%) Time Management
6 2 (5.263%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.263%) Release Management
6 2 (5.263%) Resource Management
7 1 (2.632%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.632%) Requirements Management
7 1 (2.632%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (89.47%) JCL
2 29 (76.32%) REXX
3 4 (10.53%) Assembly Language
4 3 (7.895%) C++
5 2 (5.263%) COBOL
6 1 (2.632%) Java
6 1 (2.632%) VBA
6 1 (2.632%) Shell Script
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (10.53%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Tivoli
2 5 (13.16%) CA Endevor
3 4 (10.53%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (5.263%) Control-M
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) IBM
2 17 (44.74%) BMC
2 17 (44.74%) CA
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.895%) Teradata
5 1 (2.632%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.632%) Sun
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle
5 1 (2.632%) JBoss