ISPF Contracts in the Midlands

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring ISPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ISPF over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 - 208
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ISPF 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% - 0.084%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% - 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £429 - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £478 £575 £519
% change year-on-year -16.96% +10.84% -1.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 473 445 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.76% 16.01% 19.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 336 675
10th Percentile £340 £313 £351
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £597 £569 £578
90th Percentile £725 £675 £630
England median daily rate £550 £550 £578
% change year-on-year - -4.80% +7.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £30.13 £17.31 £17.77
25th Percentile £35.94 £18.33 £18.58
Median hourly rate £48.75 £32.39 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year +50.52% +64.70% -6.36%
75th Percentile £63.44 £52.94 £59.50
90th Percentile £70.38 £60.50 £59.94
England median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +32.65%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the Midlands

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ISPF in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ISPF in the Midlands

ISPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ISPF in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in the Midlands

ISPF
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
East Midlands - 4 £488 -
ISPF
England

ISPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) ChangeMan
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) zOS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JCL
2 2 (50.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) CyberArk
3 2 (50.00%) BMC