ISPF Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.032% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 433 346 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.97% 21.14% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 214 289
10th Percentile £363 £322 £363
25th Percentile £450 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £464 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.22% -15.64% -
75th Percentile £621 £551 £638
90th Percentile £735 £625 £670
South East median daily rate £530 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 3 9
10th Percentile £29.07 - £50.87
25th Percentile £53.87 £13.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £13.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +425.93% -78.08% +23.20%
75th Percentile £81.15 £23.03 -
90th Percentile £86.21 £28.60 £64.25
South East median hourly rate £68.11 £50.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +36.22% -18.83% +2.67%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ISPF

ISPF
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ISPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ISPF

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Berkshire - 1 £475 - 1
ISPF
South East

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Database Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Broadcom
1 1 (100.00%) IBM