IBM AS/400
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term AS400 in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited AS400 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 677 828 884
Rank change year-on-year +151 +56 +270
Permanent jobs citing AS400 25 79 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.045% 0.076% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.12% 0.22% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15 78 66
10th Percentile £50,000 £30,000 £35,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £87,500 £55,188 £63,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £65,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £52,500 £42,250
% change year-on-year +47.62% +24.26% -26.52%

All Generic Skills
UK

AS400 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 20,763 35,685 41,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.18% 34.42% 43.59%
Number of salaries quoted 9,606 23,135 22,550
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,085 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

AS400
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing AS400 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AS400.

Salary trend for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing AS400 over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for AS400 in the UK

AS400
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AS400 within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +142 22 £77,500 +47.62% 5
England +122 22 £85,000 +58.88% 4
South East +80 8 £85,000 +54.55% 2
Midlands +59 7 £32,500 -27.78%
Work from Home +88 6 £57,500 +9.52% 3
East Midlands - 6 - -
East of England +50 4 £57,500 +91.67%
London +100 3 £85,000 +30.77% 1
Scotland - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +44 1 £32,500 -27.78%
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 -

AS400
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (12.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) FTP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) LAN
2 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) DB2
2 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (8.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) MS Access
5 1 (4.00%) QlikView
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) AS400 Programmer
1 6 (24.00%) Programmer
1 6 (24.00%) RPG Programmer
2 4 (16.00%) AS400 Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
2 4 (16.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Development Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Software Development Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering Manager
3 3 (12.00%) Software Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Head of IT
4 2 (8.00%) Head of Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Server Support
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Systems Support
5 1 (4.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 19 (76.00%) iSeries
2 4 (16.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Agile
1 7 (28.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (16.00%) High Availability
3 4 (16.00%) Inventory Management
3 4 (16.00%) IT Strategy
3 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (16.00%) Service Management
3 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
3 4 (16.00%) TDD
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Scrum
4 3 (12.00%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (12.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 3 (12.00%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) RPG
2 14 (56.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) RPG IV
4 4 (16.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) IBM
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Zscaler