ISPF Contracts

IBM Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 536 689 825
Rank change year-on-year +153 +136 -109
Contract jobs citing ISPF 48 8 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.014% 0.026%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.063% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 3 11
10th Percentile £412 - £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -15.93% +41.25%
75th Percentile £568 £488 £569
90th Percentile £588 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £390
% change year-on-year +3.16% +21.79% +15.56%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

ISPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ISPF in the UK

ISPF
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ISPF 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 +116 38 £480 +1.05% 6
UK excluding London +58 33 £490 +3.16% 4
Work from Home +140 28 £495 - 5
North of England +37 23 £475 -
Yorkshire +34 23 £475 -
London +87 9 £480 -
Scotland - 6 £500 -
East Midlands - 4 £488 - 4
Midlands - 4 £488 - 4

ISPF
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 24 (50.00%) SAS
2 4 (8.33%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) DB2
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) ChangeMan
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (35.42%) Programmer
2 16 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
2 16 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 8 (16.67%) z/OS Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) z/OS Specialist
5 5 (10.42%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Developer
6 4 (8.33%) Mainframe Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Backend Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Administrator
8 2 (4.17%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Backend Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Mainframe Developer
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Developer
9 1 (2.08%) Consultant
9 1 (2.08%) Hardware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (97.92%) Mainframe
2 7 (14.58%) IBM Mainframe
3 6 (12.50%) LPAR
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 48 (100.00%) zOS
2 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 19 (39.58%) Performance Monitoring
3 7 (14.58%) ITIL
4 6 (12.50%) Agile
4 6 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (10.42%) Workflow
6 4 (8.33%) Change Data Capture
6 4 (8.33%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (4.17%) Batch Processing
7 2 (4.17%) Capacity Management
7 2 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (4.17%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.17%) Workload Management
8 1 (2.08%) Data Protection
8 1 (2.08%) Problem Management
8 1 (2.08%) Storage Management
8 1 (2.08%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 45 (93.75%) JCL
2 36 (75.00%) REXX
3 18 (37.50%) Assembly Language
4 10 (20.83%) CLIST
5 4 (8.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 36 (75.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (27.08%) ACF2
2 13 (27.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 13 (27.08%) RACF
3 6 (12.50%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 18 (37.50%) OMEGAMON
2 7 (14.58%) Control-M
3 4 (8.33%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 40 (83.33%) IBM
2 22 (45.83%) Broadcom
3 20 (41.67%) Splunk
4 16 (33.33%) CA
5 10 (20.83%) BMC
6 7 (14.58%) ServiceNow
7 6 (12.50%) CyberArk
8 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
9 1 (2.08%) Dell