ISPF Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - 70
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.13% - 0.72%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% - 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £500
Scotland median daily rate £650 - £500

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 151 155 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.13% 24.68% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 120 116
10th Percentile £357 £400 £325
25th Percentile £413 £429 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £480 £482
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -0.36% -1.23%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £620
90th Percentile £650 £600 £731
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £466
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.93% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £28.65
25th Percentile - - £32.63
Median hourly rate £64.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £64.50 - £49.63
90th Percentile £64.80 - £54.35
Scotland median hourly rate £61.36 - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +3.03%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISPF

ISPF
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ISPF

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM