AS400 Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM AS/400
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	127	-	81
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing AS400	2	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	0.098%	-	0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.27%	-	0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£519	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£538	-	-
75^th Percentile	£556	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
North West median daily rate	£538	-	-

All Generic Skills
Manchester

AS400 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 Manchester.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	753	366	364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester	36.95%	35.36%	31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted	442	256	188
10^th Percentile	£368	£306	£294
25^th Percentile	£425	£390	£372
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£465	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+10.22%	-2.11%	-0.52%
75^th Percentile	£618	£600	£575
90^th Percentile	£700	£676	£677
North West median daily rate	£500	£450	£489
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-7.98%	-2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted	86	19	18
10^th Percentile	£16.02	£18.50	£19.93
25^th Percentile	£30.00	£19.75	£23.88
Median hourly rate	£64.50	£35.00	£34.75
Median % change year-on-year	+84.29%	+0.72%	-7.33%
75^th Percentile	£77.00	£53.75	£61.38
90^th Percentile	£87.50	£66.75	£95.10
North West median hourly rate	£43.96	£31.36	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+40.18%	-3.51%	-20.73%

AS400 Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AS400 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

AS400 Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AS400.

AS400 Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing AS400.

AS400 Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing AS400 also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region with a requirement for AS400.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Acceptance Criteria	100.0%	2
1	Agile	100.0%	2
1	Change Management	100.0%	2
1	Confluence	100.0%	2
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	2
1	Data Migration	100.0%	2
1	Defect Management	100.0%	2
1	DocuSign	100.0%	2
1	ETL	100.0%	2
1	IBM	100.0%	2
1	JIRA	100.0%	2
1	Kanban	100.0%	2
1	Microsoft 365	100.0%	2
1	Microsoft Copilot	100.0%	2
1	Migration	100.0%	2
1	OneDrive	100.0%	2
1	Process Improvement	100.0%	2
1	QA	100.0%	2
1	Regression Testing	100.0%	2
1	Scenario Testing	100.0%	2
1	Scrum	100.0%	2
1	SharePoint	100.0%	2
1	Stakeholder Management	100.0%	2
1	Test Automation	100.0%	2
1	Test Planning	100.0%	2
1	Zephyr	100.0%	2

AS400 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Miscellaneous

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	iSeries	100.0%	2