ISPF Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.098% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.68% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 - -
75th Percentile £505 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £367 £400 £430
% change year-on-year -8.38% -6.98% -9.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 147 80 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 14.44% 15.87% 14.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 65 75
10th Percentile £375 £304 £259
25th Percentile £401 £341 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £402 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -5.41% -1.16%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £575
90th Percentile £625 £550 £625
England median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £19.29 £21.67 £10.90
Median hourly rate £25.08 £23.41 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +7.11% +5.10% -
75th Percentile £25.13 £25.16 £28.13
90th Percentile £25.14 - £33.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +36.84% -26.92%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ISPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

ISPF job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ISPF

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 April 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire - 1 £497 - 3
ISPF
England

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk