ISPF Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 426 582 658
Rank change year-on-year +156 +76 +173
Permanent jobs citing ISPF 4 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.025% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.094% 0.034% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51,548 - -
25th Percentile £55,744 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,876 - -
75th Percentile £84,396 - -
90th Percentile £90,025 - -
UK median annual salary £70,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 4,246 8,949 14,351
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.03% 26.48% 33.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,181 7,484 10,777
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,825 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £50,854
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £98,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +7.89%

ISPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ISPF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ISPF
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ISPF.

ISPF salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

ISPF
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ISPF over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

ISPF salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ISPF
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 (50.00%) CICS
2 1 (25.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (75.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) API Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Community of Practice
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Presales
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) COBOL
3 1 (25.00%) Assembly Language
3 1 (25.00%) REXX
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) CA Endevor
1 2 (50.00%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (50.00%) BMC
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Syncsort