iSeries Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

IBM iSeries
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 149 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -48 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing iSeries 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.036% 0.076% 0.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.091% 0.21% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £428
25th Percentile - £413 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +32.94% -29.17% -1.72%
75th Percentile - £438 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -20.83% +11.11% +2.86%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,098 479 484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.99% 36.43% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 284 262
10th Percentile £325 £305 £263
25th Percentile £413 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £625 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 8 65
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.63 £12.15
Median hourly rate £26.72 £19.76 £14.63
Median % change year-on-year +35.26% +35.08% +37.58%
75th Percentile £57.25 £30.10 £15.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £53.47 £36.63
England median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £37.50
% change year-on-year +33.66% -12.29% +36.36%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

iSeries job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

iSeries
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing iSeries.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing iSeries

iSeries
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing iSeries.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing iSeries

iSeries
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire -45 1 £565 +32.94% 1
iSeries
England

iSeries
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FIDO
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) SSCP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Okta