ISPF Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.59% 2.33% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.13% 8.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile £488 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% - -
75th Percentile £505 £506 -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £497 £488 -
% change year-on-year +1.85% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 32 45 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 18.93% 26.16% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 32 39
10th Percentile £380 £313 £308
25th Percentile £405 £434 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% - -
75th Percentile £555 £550 £650
90th Percentile £678 £600 £700
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -1.18% -10.53% +3.54%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing ISPF

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Nottingham -6 1 £497 +1.85% 1
ISPF
East Midlands

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk