ISPF Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 100 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -43 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing ISPF 5 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.43% 0.89% 2.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.50% 5.00% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £507 £416 £427
25th Percentile £508 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -8.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £518 £529 £588
90th Percentile £518 £555 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £483 £525
% change year-on-year +8.81% -8.10% +10.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 334 80 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.40% 17.74% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 57 72
10th Percentile £362 £358 £400
25th Percentile £449 £389 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £518
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -8.21% -13.75%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £704 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.63
Median hourly rate - - £12.75
75th Percentile - - £12.88
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £91.69 £38.19
% change year-on-year -26.38% +140.12% -38.90%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ISPF

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 June 2026. 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
Sheffield -43 5 £513 +28.31% 1
ISPF
Yorkshire

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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