IBM Contracts in London

IBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 299 252
Rank change year-on-year +69 -47 -19
Contract jobs citing IBM 167 197 435
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.74% 1.12%
As % of the Vendors category 2.31% 1.88% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 127 276
10th Percentile £421 £438 £431
25th Percentile £495 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.38% +11.90%
75th Percentile £722 £615 £725
90th Percentile £834 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,237 10,475 14,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.90% 39.09% 37.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,954 7,408 10,361
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +7.84%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £797 £775
England median daily rate £520 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -2.99% +2.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 128 186
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.13 £16.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.65 £29.38 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -16.07% +27.27%
75th Percentile £35.69 £57.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £58.63 £70.00 £62.13
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% +83.33% -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Central London +56 33 £600 -14.29% 5
East London - 2 £473 - 2
West London +23 1 - - 1
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (11.38%) WebSphere
2 9 (5.39%) Confluence
3 8 (4.79%) Tomcat
3 8 (4.79%) WebLogic
4 6 (3.59%) IIS
4 6 (3.59%) JBoss
4 6 (3.59%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.99%) Apache
5 5 (2.99%) CICS
5 5 (2.99%) MQSeries
5 5 (2.99%) nginx
6 4 (2.40%) Appian
7 3 (1.80%) CMS
7 3 (1.80%) IBM Domino
7 3 (1.80%) IBM Notes
8 2 (1.20%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.60%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.60%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (5.39%) Loan IQ
2 5 (2.99%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.60%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.60%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.60%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.60%) Maximo
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (19.16%) AWS
2 23 (13.77%) Azure
3 17 (10.18%) GCP
4 12 (7.19%) SaaS
5 11 (6.59%) Nutanix
6 9 (5.39%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (5.39%) IaaS
6 9 (5.39%) PaaS
7 8 (4.79%) Rubrik
8 5 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.40%) Alation
9 4 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.80%) GitHub
10 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.80%) OCI
11 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.20%) Collibra
11 2 (1.20%) Serverless
12 1 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.60%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.78%) DNS
2 16 (9.58%) SSL
3 13 (7.78%) Firewall
4 12 (7.19%) SAN
4 12 (7.19%) TCP/IP
5 9 (5.39%) NAS
6 8 (4.79%) DHCP
6 8 (4.79%) Kerberos
6 8 (4.79%) VLAN
7 3 (1.80%) SMTP
7 3 (1.80%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.60%) AMQP
8 1 (0.60%) HTTP
8 1 (0.60%) IPsec
8 1 (0.60%) MPLS
8 1 (0.60%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.17%) Relational Database
2 20 (11.98%) DB2
3 10 (5.99%) RDBMS
4 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.99%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.40%) Big Data
6 4 (2.40%) Metadata
6 4 (2.40%) MySQL
6 4 (2.40%) Sybase ASE
7 3 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.20%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.60%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.60%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.60%) NewSQL
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.60%) Redis
9 1 (0.60%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.19%) Git
2 12 (7.19%) JIRA
3 9 (5.39%) TeamCity
4 6 (3.59%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.59%) GitLab
4 6 (3.59%) IBM UrbanCode
4 6 (3.59%) Selenium
5 5 (2.99%) JUnit
5 5 (2.99%) Mockito
6 3 (1.80%) Appium
6 3 (1.80%) HP UFT
6 3 (1.80%) Katalon Studio
6 3 (1.80%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.80%) Rational Performance Tester
6 3 (1.80%) Visual Studio
6 3 (1.80%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.20%) Maven
7 2 (1.20%) Postman
General
1 64 (38.32%) Finance
2 55 (32.93%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.77%) Banking
4 16 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Financial Institution
6 11 (6.59%) Front Office
7 6 (3.59%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.80%) Back Office
9 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.60%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.60%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.60%) French Language
10 1 (0.60%) German Language
10 1 (0.60%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (21.56%) Architect
2 28 (16.77%) Developer
3 19 (11.38%) Senior
4 18 (10.78%) Analyst
5 14 (8.38%) Security Architect
6 12 (7.19%) Applications Support
7 11 (6.59%) Consultant
7 11 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.39%) Applications Support Analyst
8 9 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.39%) SQL Analyst
8 9 (5.39%) SQL Support Analyst
8 9 (5.39%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.19%) Support Engineer
10 6 (3.59%) DBA
10 6 (3.59%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Mainframe Architect
11 5 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.99%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.19%) Spring Boot
2 11 (6.59%) OpenID
3 10 (5.99%) Middleware
3 10 (5.99%) Spring
3 10 (5.99%) XACML
4 9 (5.39%) Apache Camel
5 8 (4.79%) FpML
5 8 (4.79%) LDAP
5 8 (4.79%) RESTful
5 8 (4.79%) SAML
5 8 (4.79%) Web Services
5 8 (4.79%) WebSphere MQ
6 7 (4.19%) IBM Integration Bus
6 7 (4.19%) SOAP
6 7 (4.19%) XML
7 5 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
7 5 (2.99%) ISPF
7 5 (2.99%) REST
8 4 (2.40%) Kafka
8 4 (2.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.58%) Replication
2 14 (8.38%) Mainframe
3 12 (7.19%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.39%) Clustering
5 8 (4.79%) Derivative
6 6 (3.59%) DataPower
7 5 (2.99%) OTC Derivatives
8 4 (2.40%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.40%) IBM Mainframe
8 4 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.80%) AS400
9 3 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.20%) Equities
10 2 (1.20%) iSeries
10 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (25.75%) Linux
2 42 (25.15%) Windows
3 15 (8.98%) Windows Server
4 14 (8.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (7.19%) Unix
6 9 (5.39%) Solaris
7 8 (4.79%) Oracle Linux
7 8 (4.79%) zOS
8 3 (1.80%) VMS
9 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.60%) AIX
10 1 (0.60%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.56%) Agile
2 34 (20.36%) DevOps
3 28 (16.77%) CI/CD
4 22 (13.17%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (11.38%) Incident Management
7 17 (10.18%) Migration
8 16 (9.58%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (8.98%) Data Management
10 13 (7.78%) Data Security
11 12 (7.19%) Data Modelling
11 12 (7.19%) High Availability
11 12 (7.19%) Proactive Monitoring
11 12 (7.19%) Risk Management
11 12 (7.19%) SDLC
11 12 (7.19%) Security Architecture
12 11 (6.59%) Storage Management
12 11 (6.59%) Waterfall
13 10 (5.99%) Data Migration
13 10 (5.99%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (22.75%) Java
2 37 (22.16%) Python
3 34 (20.36%) SQL
4 27 (16.17%) PowerShell
5 10 (5.99%) Bash
6 7 (4.19%) COBOL
7 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.40%) C#
8 4 (2.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.40%) Perl
8 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.80%) RPG
10 2 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (1.20%) JCL
10 2 (1.20%) REXX
10 2 (1.20%) SELCOPY
10 2 (1.20%) VBScript
10 2 (1.20%) XPath
11 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (11.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.78%) Degree
4 6 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.60%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) PhD
5 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.79%) GDPR
1 8 (4.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (4.19%) QA
3 5 (2.99%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.20%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.20%) SLA
5 1 (0.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.60%) COREP
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 15 (8.98%) Docker
2 13 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.59%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.59%) RACF
5 4 (2.40%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 4 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.80%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (1.80%) vSphere
7 1 (0.60%) ACF2
7 1 (0.60%) Lustre
7 1 (0.60%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 25 (14.97%) Ansible
2 16 (9.58%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.38%) Terraform
4 11 (6.59%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 10 (5.99%) Grafana
6 9 (5.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 9 (5.39%) Tivoli
7 8 (4.79%) EMC NetWorker
7 8 (4.79%) Netcool
7 8 (4.79%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (2.99%) zSecure
9 4 (2.40%) CA Endevor
10 3 (1.80%) vCenter Server
11 2 (1.20%) Kibana
11 2 (1.20%) logstash
11 2 (1.20%) Packer
12 1 (0.60%) MOM
12 1 (0.60%) OMEGAMON
12 1 (0.60%) QRadar
12 1 (0.60%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 37 (22.16%) Oracle
2 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.38%) Cisco
4 13 (7.78%) Dell
4 13 (7.78%) Okta
4 13 (7.78%) VMware
5 12 (7.19%) Dynatrace
5 12 (7.19%) HP
5 12 (7.19%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.59%) SAP
7 9 (5.39%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.79%) EMC
8 8 (4.79%) Isilon
8 8 (4.79%) Qualys
8 8 (4.79%) Serena
8 8 (4.79%) Splunk
9 7 (4.19%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.19%) TIBCO
10 5 (2.99%) Informatica
10 5 (2.99%) Salesforce