AS400 Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM AS/400
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing AS400 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% 0.043% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £600 £445 £529
% change year-on-year +34.83% -15.84% -8.04%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 880 696 785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.76% 29.85% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 361 557
10th Percentile £214 £275 £248
25th Percentile £358 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £646 £675 £672
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 34
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.72 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.61 £21.25 £29.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -27.48% +93.08%
75th Percentile £58.65 £39.00 £52.03
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.50 £70.53
England median hourly rate £27.75 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.47% -3.37% +27.14%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

AS400 job vacancy trend in the North West

AS400
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AS400.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AS400

AS400
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AS400.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing AS400

AS400
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Manchester -9 1 - -
AS400
England

AS400
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Banking Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) iSeries
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Smoke Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM