iSeries Contracts in London

IBM iSeries
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 421 566
Rank change year-on-year +55 +145 -5
Contract jobs citing iSeries 15 10 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.049% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.28% 0.14% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £455 £423 £369
25th Percentile £475 £503 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £563 £515
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +9.22% -10.43%
75th Percentile £633 £638 £600
90th Percentile £720 £713 £675
England median daily rate £513 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -3.30% +6.00% +17.65%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,273 7,017 13,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.68% 34.31% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 5,040 9,624
10th Percentile £325 £350 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £725 £725 £741
90th Percentile £850 £825 £838
England median daily rate £543 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -1.36% -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 97 149
10th Percentile £17.28 £17.72 £16.23
25th Percentile £23.80 £19.99 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +13.21% -18.46%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.08 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.75 £72.96 £74.51
England median hourly rate £50.00 £44.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +12.36% +64.94% +12.28%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing iSeries as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing iSeries in London.

Daily rate trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSeries in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing iSeries in London.

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in London

iSeries
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Central London +25 5 - - 2
iSeries
England

iSeries
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (46.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Talend Open Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) Visual LANSA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
2 9 (60.00%) Finance
3 7 (46.67%) Private Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Retail
7 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (53.33%) RPG Developer
3 5 (33.33%) AS400 Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst Programmer
4 2 (13.33%) Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) AS400 Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) LANSA Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) RPG Analyst Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) RPG Programmer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) JSON
2 1 (6.67%) ODBC
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) AS400
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) OS/400
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Change Control
1 5 (33.33%) Fintech
1 5 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
1 5 (33.33%) Wealth Management
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
4 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) ETL
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 11 (73.33%) RPG
3 5 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) RPG IV
5 1 (6.67%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) IBM Certification
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.67%) LANSA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Talend