iSeries Contract Job Trends 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 7 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 348 397
Rank change year-on-year -114 +49 +22
Contract jobs citing iSeries 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.028% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.050% 0.083% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £473 £371 £428
25th Percentile £488 £386 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.35% -29.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £546 £531 -
90th Percentile £557 £588 -
UK median daily rate £475 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -20.83% +11.11% +2.86%

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 8,046 4,823 6,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.18% 33.49% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,901 2,903 3,571
10th Percentile £280 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £593 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 673 375 737
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.13 £12.15
25th Percentile £19.34 £18.51 £14.22
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.53% -16.67% +29.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £79.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.81 £36.02
% change year-on-year +41.21% -14.48% +38.55%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

iSeries job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

iSeries
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 7 July 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
South East -63 3 £475 - 1
Yorkshire -48 1 £565 +32.94% 1
North of England -69 1 £565 +32.94% 3
iSeries
UK

iSeries
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FIDO
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Okta