ISPF Contracts in Sheffield

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 47 25 54
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 -4
Contract jobs citing ISPF 3 32 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.94% 8.44% 0.44%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.17% 30.77% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 22 2
10th Percentile - £401 -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -9.47% -
75th Percentile - £563 £488
90th Percentile - £588 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £483 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +12.21% -9.47% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 72 104 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.57% 27.44% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 58 55
10th Percentile £359 £388 £413
25th Percentile £400 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -20.83% +24.68%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £700
90th Percentile £711 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £462 £600
% change year-on-year +13.76% -23.08% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.50 -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (66.67%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DWDM
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) z/OS Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) CLIST
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
1 3 (100.00%) REXX
2 2 (66.67%) Assembly Language
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (33.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (33.33%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 ISPF jobs in South Yorkshire