iSeries Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 386 466
Rank change year-on-year +42 +80 +124
Contract jobs citing iSeries 10 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.078% 0.080% 0.083%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £499 £440 £380
25th Percentile £564 £470 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £480 £510
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -8.93%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £720 £750
England median daily rate £600 £480 £525
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% -6.25%

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 4,734 5,814 9,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 36.71% 33.27% 35.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,124 4,084 6,533
10th Percentile £331 £315 £363
25th Percentile £449 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £738 £738 £743
90th Percentile £838 £850 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 143 98
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.44 £18.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.02 £22.49
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -22.86% -13.58%
75th Percentile £47.06 £49.50 £58.44
90th Percentile £64.30 £71.25 £85.99
England median hourly rate £32.81 £37.00 £23.33
% change year-on-year -11.32% +58.63% -11.98%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing iSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSeries in London.

Daily rate trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSeries in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSeries in London.

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Central London +4 5 £700 - 4
iSeries
England

iSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (50.00%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Private Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) RPG Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) AS400
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
2 2 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Wealth Management
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (10.00%) Agile
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) RPG
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) RPG IV
5 1 (10.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CFA
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (10.00%) FNZ
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk