ISPF Contracts in England

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 499 644
Rank change year-on-year +29 +145 +116
Contract jobs citing ISPF 15 43 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.12% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.28% 0.57% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 2
10th Percentile £324 £395 -
25th Percentile £325 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.88% -9.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £425 £588 £488
90th Percentile £490 - -
UK median daily rate £388 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -15.76% -3.16% -11.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ISPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISPF in England.

Daily rate trend for ISPF in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISPF in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISPF in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISPF in England.

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +41 8 £375 -44.03% 2
North of England -12 5 £400 -6.98% 3
Yorkshire -24 4 £483 +12.21% 3
North West - 1 £320 -
ISPF
UK

ISPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (40.00%) CICS
1 6 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Programmer
1 10 (66.67%) Systems Programmer
1 10 (66.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (13.33%) Assembler Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) z/OS Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 15 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) LPAR
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (46.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 1 (6.67%) Agile
3 1 (6.67%) Hardware Maintenance
3 1 (6.67%) High Availability
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (6.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Presales
3 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (6.67%) SDLC
3 1 (6.67%) Security Management
3 1 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Validation
3 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) JCL
2 12 (80.00%) REXX
3 10 (66.67%) Assembly Language
4 8 (53.33%) CLIST
5 2 (13.33%) COBOL
5 2 (13.33%) HLASM
6 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (13.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (6.67%) ACF2
3 1 (6.67%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (6.67%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Syncsort