ISPF Contracts in London

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 345 386 487
Rank change year-on-year +41 +101 +102
Contract jobs citing ISPF 8 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.028% 0.022%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.11% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £670 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.03% - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile £439 - -
England median daily rate £388 £430 £475
% change year-on-year -9.88% -9.47% -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in London

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in London

ISPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in London

ISPF
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 ISPF within the London 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
Central London +6 3 £350 - 1
ISPF
England

ISPF
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 4 (50.00%) CICS
1 4 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DB2
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Programmer
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Programmer
1 6 (75.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Assembler Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Assembler Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Presales
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) Security Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) JCL
2 7 (87.50%) REXX
3 6 (75.00%) Assembly Language
4 4 (50.00%) CLIST
5 1 (12.50%) COBOL
5 1 (12.50%) HLASM
5 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Syncsort