iSeries 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 permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 498 530 543
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 +201
Permanent jobs citing iSeries 8 21 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.058% 0.049%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.059% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £28,000 - £40,950
25th Percentile £28,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,250 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -18.18% -2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,625 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £57,500 £66,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -4.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,545 12,317 11,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.28% 34.25% 34.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,236 5,308 8,511
10th Percentile £26,313 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £37,756
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £54,793 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +3.38% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,341 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

iSeries job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing iSeries.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing iSeries

iSeries
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing iSeries in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for iSeries in the UK excluding London

iSeries
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands +7 4 £29,500 -30.59% 1
East of England +25 3 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East Midlands -9 3 £29,500 -30.59% 1
South East +27 1 £90,000 -
West Midlands +12 1 £27,500 -50.00%
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:

Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Mimecast
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
1 4 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Head of IT
3 1 (12.50%) IT Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AS400
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Batch Processing
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Problem Management
2 3 (37.50%) Tech Ops
3 1 (12.50%) B2B
3 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
3 1 (12.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) IBM
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Symantec