ISPF Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring ISPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.087% - 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.45% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £483 £430
% change year-on-year +8.81% +12.21% -9.47%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 220 113 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.03% 20.32% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 69 138
10th Percentile £389 £400 £346
25th Percentile £442 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £625
90th Percentile £620 £600 £679
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £88.26 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £93.41 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £102.00 £13.87
Median % change year-on-year -76.47% +635.40% -80.19%
75th Percentile £25.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £67.50 £102.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% +353.33% -67.86%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

ISPF job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

ISPF
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing ISPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing ISPF

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Leeds - 1 £525 - 2
ISPF
Yorkshire

ISPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) RACF
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM