IBM Contracts in the North West

IBM
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 127 130 157
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 -45
Contract jobs citing IBM 10 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.72% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 1.78% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 14
10th Percentile £470 £275 £324
25th Percentile £489 £306 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £325 £425
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -23.53% +10.97%
75th Percentile £575 £363 £601
90th Percentile £578 £393 £743
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - - £39.73
75th Percentile - - £42.21
90th Percentile - - £42.53
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.29 £43.10
% change year-on-year +54.57% +5.09% -13.81%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,099 1,293 1,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 39.78% 40.24% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 867 991
10th Percentile £272 £288 £185
25th Percentile £394 £388 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +10.71%
75th Percentile £588 £586 £575
90th Percentile £688 £665 £650
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 58 96
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.60 £10.49
25th Percentile £11.95 £20.77 £14.44
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £19.62
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% +91.11% -28.64%
75th Percentile £25.54 £49.05 £42.20
90th Percentile £46.18 £54.27 £57.50
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire -4 7 £489 +50.46% 3
Cumbria - 2 £552 - 3
Manchester +12 1 - - 11
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (40.00%) Confluence
3 3 (30.00%) IIS
4 1 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (10.00%) JBoss
4 1 (10.00%) nginx
4 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Temenos T24
2 3 (30.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Apigee
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Kong
3 3 (30.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 5 (50.00%) OLAP
1 5 (50.00%) OLTP
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Banking
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Automotive
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Pega Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
2 5 (50.00%) J2EE
2 5 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (50.00%) SOAP
2 5 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Camel
3 4 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (40.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (40.00%) Spring Integration
4 3 (30.00%) .NET
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) JSON
4 3 (30.00%) REST
4 3 (30.00%) XHTML
5 2 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) DataPower
2 3 (30.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) API Management
1 8 (80.00%) Microservices
1 8 (80.00%) OO
2 5 (50.00%) CQRS
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 5 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (50.00%) OOA/OOD
2 5 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 5 (50.00%) SOA
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Technical Debt
3 4 (40.00%) TOGAF
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (30.00%) OOD
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle
2 5 (50.00%) TSYS
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Nintex
3 3 (30.00%) Pega
3 3 (30.00%) SAP
4 1 (10.00%) F5
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Temenos