AS400 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM AS/400
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing AS400 3 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.24% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.44% 0.77% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 - £538
90th Percentile £705 - -
Central London median daily rate £600 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Generic Skills
City of London

AS400 falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 681 649 907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.41% 30.64% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 404 583
10th Percentile £354 £361 £325
25th Percentile £457 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £693 £725 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £830
Central London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 9
10th Percentile £16.90 - £17.00
25th Percentile £19.11 - £26.25
Median hourly rate £24.75 £27.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -28.71%
75th Percentile £43.39 £59.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £72.53 £79.40 £56.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £27.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -7.13% -23.94% -29.70%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AS400 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

AS400 job vacancy trend in the City of London

AS400
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AS400.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AS400

AS400
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AS400.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing AS400

AS400
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Systems Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Insurance Systems Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Development Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (66.67%) iSeries
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) RPG
2 2 (66.67%) Korn
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CFA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Avaloq
1 1 (33.33%) FNZ
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft