ISPF Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 52 48
Rank change year-on-year -43 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing ISPF 5 3 9
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.47% 0.77% 2.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.57% 3.95% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £507 - £424
25th Percentile £508 - £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +28.31% -15.79% -
75th Percentile £518 - £588
90th Percentile £518 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +6.37% -8.10% +10.53%

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 319 76 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 29.73% 19.59% 29.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 53 68
10th Percentile £400 £358 £400
25th Percentile £450 £389 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £463 £511
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% -9.39% -14.83%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £708 £647
South Yorkshire median daily rate £510 £475 £518
% change year-on-year +7.37% -8.21% -13.75%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in Sheffield

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ISPF

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Db2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Programmer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (60.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Programmer
3 2 (40.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (20.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JCL
2 3 (60.00%) Assembly Language
2 3 (60.00%) CLIST
2 3 (60.00%) REXX
3 1 (20.00%) COBOL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft