IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ISPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ISPF over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 709 872 959
Rank change year-on-year +163 +87 +273
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 3 6 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.006% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.032% 0.029% 0.046%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £50,875 - -
25th Percentile £54,063 - £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £65,000
75th Percentile £66,563 - £67,500
90th Percentile £68,625 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ISPF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,497 21,024 30,482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 21.23% 30.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,223 15,725 18,834
10th Percentile £37,733 £36,250 £40,775
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ISPF over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +139 3 £61,250 - 15
UK excluding London +181 2 £61,250 - 8
Work from Home +118 2 £52,500 - 4
Yorkshire +72 2 £61,250 - 3
North of England +49 2 £61,250 - 4
London +114 1 - - 6

ISPF
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 1 (33.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) DB2 Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Programmer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Presales
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JCL
2 1 (33.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (33.33%) REXX
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (33.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Syncsort