iSeries Contract Job Trends in Reading

IBM iSeries
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 - 89
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing iSeries 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.13% - 0.099%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.42% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £558
75th Percentile - - £590
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - £558

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 requiring generic IT skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 236 277 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 31.76% 31.69% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 123 216
10th Percentile £326 £272 £205
25th Percentile £413 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% -10.48%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £608
90th Percentile £664 £656 £650
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.95% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 8
10th Percentile £56.63 £33.05 £52.90
25th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £58.14
Median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £62.47
Median % change year-on-year +61.00% -19.96% +13.58%
75th Percentile £95.63 £62.78 £63.29
90th Percentile £102.75 £70.03 £63.88
Berkshire median hourly rate £58.00 £52.37 £61.00
% change year-on-year +10.75% -14.14% +37.85%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

iSeries job vacancy trend in Reading

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing iSeries

iSeries
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Billing
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki