AS400 Contracts in the South East

IBM AS/400
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 - 195
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AS400 2 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.058% - 0.23%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £283
25th Percentile £325 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £375
75th Percentile £375 - £540
90th Percentile - - £555
England median daily rate £600 £423 £510
% change year-on-year +42.01% -17.16% +4.62%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,095 1,515 1,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.67% 29.17% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 668 901 1,313
10th Percentile £204 £219 £211
25th Percentile £358 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £663 £700 £721
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 98
10th Percentile £15.13 £12.03 £16.43
25th Percentile £16.95 £19.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +11.90% +131.90%
75th Percentile £62.24 £64.08 £65.78
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £74.48
England median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £40.80
% change year-on-year -28.78% +10.31% +56.90%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing AS400 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for AS400 in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AS400 in the South East.

Daily rate trend for AS400 in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AS400 in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for AS400 in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Hampshire - 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 1 - -
Thames Valley - 1 - - 2
AS400
England

AS400
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) RPG Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) iSeries
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) RPG
1 1 (50.00%) RPG IV
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Infor