ISPF Contracts in the City of London

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring ISPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISPF 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 119 124 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.046% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.62% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £385 - -
Central London median daily rate £350 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

ISPF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 483 482 1,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.51% 22.09% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 344 666
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £823
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in the City of London

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (33.33%) SAS
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (100.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) CLIST
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM