iSeries Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM iSeries
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	133	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing iSeries	3	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester	0.14%	-	-
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.37%	-	-
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

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 citing generic IT skills in Manchester.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing generic IT skills	813	393	370
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester	37.69%	35.63%	31.09%
Number of daily rates quoted	483	279	192
10^th Percentile	£376	£300	£294
25^th Percentile	£425	£358	£372
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£513	£450	£475
Median % change year-on-year	+13.89%	-5.26%	-
75^th Percentile	£613	£600	£575
90^th Percentile	£700	£664	£682
North West median daily rate	£500	£450	£489
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-7.98%	-4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted	90	18	17
10^th Percentile	£14.25	£18.50	£21.25
25^th Percentile	£29.96	£19.75	£29.50
Median hourly rate	£62.50	£23.33	£32.50
Median % change year-on-year	+167.95%	-28.23%	-18.75%
75^th Percentile	£77.00	£36.06	£47.50
90^th Percentile	£87.50	£60.63	£95.80
North West median hourly rate	£43.96	£45.46	£32.50
% change year-on-year	-3.30%	+39.88%	-24.64%

iSeries Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

iSeries Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

iSeries Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

iSeries Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing iSeries 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 citing iSeries.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	IBM	100.0%	3
2	Acceptance Criteria	66.7%	2
2	Agile	66.7%	2
2	Change Management	66.7%	2
2	Confluence	66.7%	2
2	Continuous Improvement	66.7%	2
2	Data Migration	66.7%	2
2	Defect Management	66.7%	2
2	DocuSign	66.7%	2
2	ETL	66.7%	2
2	JIRA	66.7%	2
2	Kanban	66.7%	2
2	Microsoft 365	66.7%	2
2	Microsoft Copilot	66.7%	2
2	Migration	66.7%	2
2	OneDrive	66.7%	2
2	Process Improvement	66.7%	2
2	QA	66.7%	2
2	Regression Testing	66.7%	2
2	Scenario Testing	66.7%	2
2	Scrum	66.7%	2
2	SharePoint	66.7%	2
2	Stakeholder Management	66.7%	2
2	Test Automation	66.7%	2
2	Test Planning	66.7%	2
2	Zephyr	66.7%	2
27	Logistics	33.3%	1
27	RPG	33.3%	1

iSeries 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	AS400	66.7%	2