AS400 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM AS/400
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 - 434
Rank change year-on-year - - +153
Contract jobs citing AS400 6 0 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% - 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% - 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 20
10th Percentile £458 - £311
25th Percentile £525 - £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +64.29%
75th Percentile - - £659
90th Percentile £615 - £850
UK median daily rate £575 £420 £525
% change year-on-year +36.90% -20.00% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

AS400
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing AS400 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

AS400 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

AS400
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing AS400.

AS400 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

AS400
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing AS400 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

AS400 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

AS400
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (33.33%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Private Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Migration Architect
3 1 (16.67%) AS400 Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) RPG Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) iSeries
2 2 (33.33%) Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Change Control
1 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (33.33%) Wealth Management
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) IT Audit
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) RPG
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) RPG/400
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM