iSeries Contracts in the City of London

IBM iSeries
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 - 173
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing iSeries 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% - 0.027%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.66% - 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.00%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate - - £700
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

iSeries 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 610 675 1,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.74% 30.93% 35.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 463 878
10th Percentile £365 £275 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +7.94%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £848 £850
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £611
% change year-on-year - -5.93% +6.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 13
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 -
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -26.32%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing iSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in the City of London

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSeries in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for iSeries in the City of London

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSeries in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in the City of London

iSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Architect
2 1 (25.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) AS400
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) RPG
2 1 (25.00%) RPG IV
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk