ISPF Contracts in Manchester

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 78 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
North West median daily rate £320 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 239 361 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.81% 23.80% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 283 310
10th Percentile £400 £375 £336
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £581
90th Percentile £638 £825 £639
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £67.00 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £71.87 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% +59.71% +143.24%
75th Percentile £88.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile - £81.60 -
North West median hourly rate £67.75 £47.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year +43.22% +5.12% +10.80%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in Manchester

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft