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 have cited iSeries over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 622 812
Rank change year-on-year +54 +190 -111
Contract jobs citing iSeries 11 62 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.11% 0.033%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.085% 0.33% 0.100%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 34 19
10th Percentile £438 £354 £469
25th Percentile £465 £428 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £534 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -4.69% +1.82%
75th Percentile £555 £630 £570
90th Percentile £582 £735 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £538 £473
% change year-on-year +11.63% +13.76% +40.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

iSeries is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,955 18,790 29,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.06% 33.33% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,316 12,953 20,440
10th Percentile £270 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - +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 923 610 691
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.20 £10.63 £17.34
Median hourly rate £35.00 £22.00 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +59.09% -18.46% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £75.00 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £21.88 £21.30
% change year-on-year +60.00% +2.70% -7.39%

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 2 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 2 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 +63 10 £510 -3.77% 10
London +87 6 £420 -17.65%
UK excluding London +29 4 £600 +11.63% 8
South East +6 3 - - 5
Work from Home +68 1 - - 3
North of England +19 1 £600 -1.72% 3
Yorkshire +11 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 5 (45.45%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) Talend Open Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Visual LANSA
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Banking
2 5 (45.45%) Private Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) RPG Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) AS400 Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) LANSA Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Security Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Change Control
1 3 (27.27%) Fintech
1 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
1 3 (27.27%) Portfolio Management
1 3 (27.27%) Wealth Management
2 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
3 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
3 1 (9.09%) ETL
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) RPG
3 4 (36.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) LANSA
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Talend