AS400 Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM AS/400
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 328 408
Rank change year-on-year -96 +80 +53
Contract jobs citing AS400 3 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.060% 0.019%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.046% 0.18% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
10th Percentile - £359 -
25th Percentile £363 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% - -
75th Percentile £388 £485 -
90th Percentile - £538 -
UK median daily rate £600 £471 £650
% change year-on-year +27.32% -27.50% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £22.50

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,515 4,407 6,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.37% 33.01% 29.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,058 2,583 3,763
10th Percentile £204 £200 £210
25th Percentile £358 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 512 253 630
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.15 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £22.50 £15.47
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +48.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.06 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.09 £32.91 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.55% +5.30% +38.98%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AS400 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

AS400 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

AS400
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AS400.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AS400

AS400
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AS400.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing AS400

AS400
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
North of England -66 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - -
South East -35 1 £375 -15.73% 2
AS400
UK

AS400
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) QlikView
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Manual Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) iSeries
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM