IBM Contracts in the South East

IBM
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 187 158
Rank change year-on-year +26 -29 -16
Contract jobs citing IBM 38 37 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.68% 0.63% 1.40%
As % of the Vendors category 1.44% 1.27% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 71
10th Percentile £358 £359 £306
25th Percentile £399 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £610
90th Percentile £696 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £23.18 - £14.60
25th Percentile £23.81 - £16.82
Median hourly rate £25.75 - £21.52
75th Percentile £27.81 - £27.19
90th Percentile £28.53 - £32.93
England median hourly rate £70.00 £45.29 £41.50
% change year-on-year +54.57% +9.13% -17.00%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,640 2,906 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.58% 49.80% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,608 1,998 2,373
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £378 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 126 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £18.08 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.24 £21.95 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.88 £36.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -41.94% +84.52% -4.55%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Hampshire +13 23 £575 +8.24% 8
Thames Valley +3 7 £578 +28.33% 5
West Sussex +8 6 £358 -18.17% 3
Berkshire -14 4 £675 +22.73% 3
Buckinghamshire +27 3 £550 +27.54% 1
Surrey - 3 £380 - 2
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (10.53%) CICS
1 4 (10.53%) SAS
2 2 (5.26%) FileNet
2 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.63%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Maximo
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (2.63%) AWS
2 1 (2.63%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (34.21%) SAN
2 3 (7.89%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (7.89%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) NX-OS
3 2 (5.26%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) VPN
3 2 (5.26%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (2.63%) SDH
4 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) DB2
1 4 (10.53%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 3 (7.89%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (15.79%) Finance
2 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Aviation
4 2 (5.26%) German Language
4 2 (5.26%) Military
4 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Aeronautics
5 1 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.63%) Automotive
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
5 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Developer
3 4 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 4 (10.53%) Mainframe Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (7.89%) Applications Support
4 3 (7.89%) Applications Support Specialist
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Junior
4 3 (7.89%) Junior Applications Support
4 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Support Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Consultant
5 2 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 2 (5.26%) FileNet Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Unix Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (34.21%) Flash
2 2 (5.26%) BAPI
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
2 2 (5.26%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.53%) IBM Mainframe
1 4 (10.53%) Mainframe
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.26%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (44.74%) Linux
2 13 (34.21%) AIX
3 5 (13.16%) Unix
4 4 (10.53%) zOS
5 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.26%) Solaris
5 2 (5.26%) Windows
6 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (15.79%) Agile
3 5 (13.16%) ITIL
3 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.53%) Migration
4 4 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (10.53%) Scrum
5 3 (7.89%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (7.89%) Change Management
5 3 (7.89%) Project Management
5 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.89%) Workflow
6 2 (5.26%) Embedded Software Development
6 2 (5.26%) HOOD
6 2 (5.26%) Safety Engineering
6 2 (5.26%) Software Assurance
6 2 (5.26%) Software Delivery
6 2 (5.26%) Software Engineering
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (2.63%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) CLIST
1 4 (10.53%) COBOL
1 4 (10.53%) Python
1 4 (10.53%) REXX
2 3 (7.89%) Java
2 3 (7.89%) SELCOPY
2 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.26%) ABAP
3 2 (5.26%) Ada
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) C
4 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 25 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 22 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) CCNP
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) CCIE
4 1 (2.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) Def Stans
1 2 (5.26%) DO-178B
2 1 (2.63%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Hyper-V
1 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Ansible
1 6 (15.79%) Netcool
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.26%) Rancher
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.26%) Rundeck
3 2 (5.26%) SCOM
3 2 (5.26%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Brocade
2 4 (10.53%) Cisco
2 4 (10.53%) Nokia
2 4 (10.53%) Syncsort
3 3 (7.89%) CheckPoint
3 3 (7.89%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.89%) Infoblox
3 3 (7.89%) VMware
4 2 (5.26%) Dell
4 2 (5.26%) HP
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) QinetiQ
4 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (5.26%) SAP
5 1 (2.63%) Juniper
5 1 (2.63%) TIBCO