ISPF Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ISPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISPF over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 378 436
Rank change year-on-year +29 +58 +86
Contract jobs citing ISPF 10 14 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.068% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% 0.42% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 3
10th Percentile £284 £463 -
25th Percentile £306 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.40% +5.26% +21.79%
75th Percentile £360 £506 £488
90th Percentile £430 £588 -
UK median daily rate £350 £485 £475
% change year-on-year -27.84% +2.11% -15.93%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,730 3,326 4,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.42% 16.09% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,856 2,187 3,044
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £636 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.70% -2.23% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 237 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.00 £22.34
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.00 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -1.74% +7.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.61 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.29%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the UK excluding London

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in the UK excluding London

ISPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ISPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ISPF in the UK excluding London

ISPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in the UK excluding London

ISPF
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 ISPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
North of England +14 10 £313 -45.57% 4
North West - 6 £313 -
Yorkshire +3 4 £400 -30.43% 4
ISPF
UK

ISPF
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (70.00%) CICS
2 2 (20.00%) SAS
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (30.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) z/OS Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 5 (50.00%) VSAM
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) LPAR
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) SDLC
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (40.00%) Release Management
4 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (30.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) High Availability
5 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 1 (10.00%) Change Control
6 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) JCL
2 8 (80.00%) CLIST
2 8 (80.00%) REXX
3 2 (20.00%) Assembly Language
3 2 (20.00%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (10.00%) Microcode
3 1 (10.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (50.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft