IBM Contracts in the North of England

IBM
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 160 193
Rank change year-on-year +69 +33 -58
Contract jobs citing IBM 90 47 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.90% 0.85% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 4.56% 2.07% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 32 43
10th Percentile £400 £290 £400
25th Percentile £407 £348 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £625
90th Percentile £588 £650 £750
England median daily rate £525 £518 £575
% change year-on-year +1.45% -10.00% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £36.85
25th Percentile - - £37.38
Median hourly rate - - £39.50
75th Percentile - - £43.10
90th Percentile - - £44.05
England median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year -12.50% +48.84% -6.52%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,974 2,269 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.59% 40.92% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,509 1,873
10th Percentile £250 £220 £180
25th Percentile £400 £381 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +6.29%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £551
90th Percentile £651 £688 £650
England median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 71 165
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.72 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.53 £17.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £15.59 £29.30 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +56.68% +1.96%
75th Percentile £25.25 £43.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £75.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the North of England region 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
Yorkshire +59 74 £430 -25.70% 8
North West +10 13 £539 +65.85% 8
North East - 3 £400 -
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 21 (23.33%) SAS
2 6 (6.67%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (3.33%) IIS
4 2 (2.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.11%) Apache
5 1 (1.11%) JBoss
5 1 (1.11%) nginx
5 1 (1.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (7.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (8.89%) Temenos T24
2 3 (3.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.67%) GitHub
2 8 (8.89%) AWS
3 7 (7.78%) Apigee
3 7 (7.78%) Azure
3 7 (7.78%) Kong
4 3 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.00%) DWDM
2 6 (6.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.11%) DNS
3 1 (1.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) MongoDB
1 7 (7.78%) OLAP
1 7 (7.78%) OLTP
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (3.33%) DB2
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.22%) Informix
5 1 (1.11%) Adabas
5 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.78%) JIRA
3 2 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 45 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Finance
3 9 (10.00%) Banking
4 7 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Automotive
7 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Storage Manager
2 22 (24.44%) Programmer
3 21 (23.33%) Systems Programmer
3 21 (23.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 7 (7.78%) Architect
4 7 (7.78%) AWS Architect
5 5 (5.56%) Lead
5 5 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (5.56%) z/OS Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) Developer
6 4 (4.44%) Hardware Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.33%) Pega Developer
7 3 (3.33%) Storage Engineer
8 2 (2.22%) Administrator
8 2 (2.22%) Build Engineer
8 2 (2.22%) Consultant
8 2 (2.22%) DBA
8 2 (2.22%) Informix DBA
9 1 (1.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (41.11%) ISPF
2 15 (16.67%) Kafka
2 15 (16.67%) YAML
3 8 (8.89%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (7.78%) J2EE
4 7 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (7.78%) SOAP
4 7 (7.78%) Web Services
5 6 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (6.67%) Apache Camel
5 6 (6.67%) Spring
5 6 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.67%) Spring Integration
6 3 (3.33%) .NET
6 3 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.33%) CSS
6 3 (3.33%) HTML
6 3 (3.33%) JSON
6 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 3 (3.33%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (42.22%) Mainframe
2 14 (15.56%) Data Centre
3 13 (14.44%) LPAR
4 7 (7.78%) DataPower
5 3 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.11%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 59 (65.56%) zOS
2 29 (32.22%) Linux
3 9 (10.00%) Windows
4 3 (3.33%) AIX
4 3 (3.33%) Unix
5 2 (2.22%) HPUX
5 2 (2.22%) Solaris
6 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.33%) Risk Management
2 26 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
2 26 (28.89%) Storage Management
3 22 (24.44%) Agile
3 22 (24.44%) Performance Monitoring
4 20 (22.22%) Project Management
4 20 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 19 (21.11%) Cost Management
6 18 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 12 (13.33%) DevOps
8 10 (11.11%) API Management
8 10 (11.11%) Microservices
8 10 (11.11%) OO
9 8 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (7.78%) CQRS
10 7 (7.78%) Design Patterns
10 7 (7.78%) Event-Driven
10 7 (7.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (7.78%) Identity Access Management
10 7 (7.78%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 57 (63.33%) JCL
2 46 (51.11%) REXX
3 18 (20.00%) Python
4 17 (18.89%) Assembly Language
5 11 (12.22%) CLIST
6 10 (11.11%) Java
7 4 (4.44%) SQL
8 3 (3.33%) C#
8 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.11%) COBOL
9 1 (1.11%) Natural
9 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (4.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.22%) Degree
4 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 55 (61.11%) Time Sharing Option
2 18 (20.00%) NFS
3 15 (16.67%) ACF2
3 15 (16.67%) RACF
4 13 (14.44%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (14.44%) Microcode
5 2 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (27.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 22 (24.44%) Ansible
3 21 (23.33%) OMEGAMON
4 6 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.11%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 40 (44.44%) Broadcom
2 22 (24.44%) CA
3 20 (22.22%) Dell
4 19 (21.11%) Splunk
5 18 (20.00%) Brocade
6 9 (10.00%) Oracle
7 7 (7.78%) TSYS
8 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 6 (6.67%) Solace
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.33%) Nintex
9 3 (3.33%) Pega
9 3 (3.33%) SAP
9 3 (3.33%) VMware
10 2 (2.22%) F5
10 2 (2.22%) Sun
11 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.11%) Temenos