IBM Contracts in the City of London

IBM
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 154 146
Rank change year-on-year +63 -8 -36
Contract jobs citing IBM 34 18 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.54% 0.49% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 3.60% 1.26% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 13 37
10th Percentile £416 £430 £463
25th Percentile £466 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £755 £750 £650
90th Percentile £924 - £750
Central London median daily rate £600 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -14.29% +21.74% -4.17%

All Vendors
City of London

IBM is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 945 1,426 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.92% 39.21% 37.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 942 1,187
10th Percentile £313 £263 £313
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.05% +4.76%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +5.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 22
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.27 -
25th Percentile £13.56 £18.42 £13.88
Median hourly rate £19.75 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% - +33.02%
75th Percentile £23.75 £36.97 £43.56
90th Percentile £25.38 £53.15 £50.68
Central London median hourly rate £18.93 £21.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -9.86% - +12.00%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
IBM
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (11.76%) WebSphere
2 3 (8.82%) IBM Domino
2 3 (8.82%) IBM Notes
2 3 (8.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.88%) Apache
3 2 (5.88%) IIS
3 2 (5.88%) JBoss
3 2 (5.88%) nginx
3 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
4 1 (2.94%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.94%) CICS
4 1 (2.94%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.94%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.94%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (2.94%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.88%) GCP
3 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) Alation
4 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) IBM Blueworks
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.94%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) SMTP
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.82%) Unified Communications
3 2 (5.88%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 6 (17.65%) DB2
2 6 (17.65%) RDBMS
3 4 (11.76%) MySQL
3 4 (11.76%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) Big Data
6 1 (2.94%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
1 2 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (44.12%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.71%) Banking
4 4 (11.76%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.94%) Advertising
7 1 (2.94%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.94%) French Language
7 1 (2.94%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) German Language
7 1 (2.94%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.94%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Security Architect
3 4 (11.76%) DBA
4 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Sybase DBA
4 3 (8.82%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Administrator
6 1 (2.94%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.94%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Configuration Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Oracle Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Quantitative Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) OpenID
1 6 (17.65%) XACML
2 5 (14.71%) SAML
3 4 (11.76%) SOAP
4 3 (8.82%) RESTful
5 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.88%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (5.88%) jQuery
5 2 (5.88%) Kafka
5 2 (5.88%) Middleware
5 2 (5.88%) Spring
5 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.88%) Struts
5 2 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (5.88%) Web Services
6 1 (2.94%) ISPF
6 1 (2.94%) JSON
6 1 (2.94%) Rendezvous
6 1 (2.94%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (2.94%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (11.76%) Replication
2 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Equities
3 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 10 (29.41%) Linux
2 8 (23.53%) Windows
3 7 (20.59%) Unix
4 3 (8.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (17.65%) Agile
2 6 (17.65%) Incident Management
3 5 (14.71%) Change Data Capture
3 5 (14.71%) ITIL
3 5 (14.71%) Security Architecture
4 4 (11.76%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (11.76%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (11.76%) Task Automation
5 3 (8.82%) Capacity Management
5 3 (8.82%) Change Control
5 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
5 3 (8.82%) DevOps
5 3 (8.82%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (8.82%) Project Delivery
5 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
6 2 (5.88%) Batch Processing
6 2 (5.88%) Data Architecture
6 2 (5.88%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) Perl
3 4 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) COBOL
5 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) VBScript
5 1 (2.94%) VC++
5 1 (2.94%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (5.88%) Docker
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.94%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (8.82%) Terraform
4 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) CA Endevor
5 1 (2.94%) Kibana
5 1 (2.94%) logstash
5 1 (2.94%) Packer
5 1 (2.94%) Puppet
5 1 (2.94%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Okta
3 5 (14.71%) SAP
4 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 4 (11.76%) Sun
4 4 (11.76%) Sybase
4 4 (11.76%) Veritas
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco
5 3 (8.82%) Lotus
5 3 (8.82%) Proofpoint
6 2 (5.88%) Micro Focus
6 2 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 2 (5.88%) Temenos
6 2 (5.88%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.94%) Google
7 1 (2.94%) Informatica
7 1 (2.94%) Symantec
7 1 (2.94%) Talend
7 1 (2.94%) Varonis