iSeries Contracts

IBM iSeries
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term iSeries in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited iSeries over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 636 819
Rank change year-on-year +67 +183 -117
Contract jobs citing iSeries 15 61 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.11% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% 0.33% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 35 19
10th Percentile £474 £355 £469
25th Percentile £555 £391 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £530 £560
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -5.36% +1.82%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £570
90th Percentile £740 £730 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £538 £473
% change year-on-year +11.63% +13.76% +28.14%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

iSeries
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing iSeries over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for iSeries in the UK

iSeries
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing iSeries within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England +57 14 £600 +15.38% 9
London +72 9 £600 +17.65% 2
UK excluding London +11 5 £600 +11.63% 5
South East +11 4 - - 5
Work from Home +74 1 - - 2
North of England +7 1 £600 -1.72%
Yorkshire +4 1 £600 -1.72%

iSeries
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 6 (40.00%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) DB2
1 1 (6.67%) MySQL
1 1 (6.67%) Talend Open Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Visual LANSA
General
1 11 (73.33%) Finance
2 8 (53.33%) Banking
3 6 (40.00%) Private Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Retail
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) RPG Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) AS400 Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) LANSA Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) AS400
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile
1 4 (26.67%) Change Control
1 4 (26.67%) Fintech
1 4 (26.67%) Incident Management
1 4 (26.67%) Portfolio Management
1 4 (26.67%) Wealth Management
2 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (13.33%) Design Thinking
2 2 (13.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (13.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (13.33%) Microservices
2 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (6.67%) ETL
3 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) RPG
3 5 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Control-M
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) IBM
2 1 (6.67%) LANSA
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) Talend