iSeries Contract Job Trends in London

IBM iSeries
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 339 390
Rank change year-on-year -68 +51 +87
Contract jobs citing iSeries 2 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.011% 0.072% 0.017%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.032% 0.20% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £420
Median % change year-on-year - +42.86% -17.65%
England median daily rate £475 £455 £510
% change year-on-year +4.40% -10.78% -1.45%

All Generic Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,301 4,527 5,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.47% 36.01% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,040 3,066 4,187
10th Percentile £350 £325 £306
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £725
90th Percentile £800 £850 £850
England median daily rate £513 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -6.48% -0.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 75 158
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.84 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £23.04 £18.93
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +34.62% -25.71%
75th Percentile £61.44 £49.25 £47.34
90th Percentile £88.75 £79.81 £67.53
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.91 £31.50
% change year-on-year +38.60% +7.65% +40.09%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

iSeries job vacancy trend in London

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing iSeries.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing iSeries

iSeries
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing iSeries.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing iSeries

iSeries
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) AS400
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM