iSeries Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM iSeries
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 398 425
Rank change year-on-year +63 +27 +75
Contract jobs citing iSeries 4 1 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.005% 0.092%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.094% 0.016% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 15
10th Percentile £371 - £305
25th Percentile £386 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £553
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +8.60% +18.82%
75th Percentile £531 - £616
90th Percentile £588 - £640
UK median daily rate £455 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -10.78% -2.86% +10.53%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

iSeries 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 4,246 6,122 7,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.19% 29.50% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,666 5,259
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £376 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 724 436
10th Percentile £16.81 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.28 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.42 £28.13 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.72% +27.84% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.64 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing iSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSeries in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for iSeries in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSeries in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for iSeries in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSeries in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in the UK excluding London

iSeries
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 iSeries within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Midlands - 2 £485 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £485 -
North of England +23 1 £425 -29.17% 1
Yorkshire +7 1 £425 -29.17%
South East - 1 - - 5
iSeries
UK

iSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) AS400 Developer
1 1 (25.00%) AS400 Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) RPG Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) AS400
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Error Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) IT Audit
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) RPG
1 1 (25.00%) RPG/400
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Infor