IBM Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 254 246
Rank change year-on-year +65 -8 -57
Contract jobs citing IBM 236 202 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.15% 0.86% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.70% 1.94% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 130 219
10th Percentile £364 £330 £350
25th Percentile £407 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% - +8.52%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £600
90th Percentile £683 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 14
10th Percentile £58.50 £36.07 £27.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £37.67 £37.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +2.56% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £55.00
90th Percentile - £71.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% +50.00% -10.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,753 10,431 12,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.46% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 7,157 8,182
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 477 626
10th Percentile £11.82 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +65 85 £430 -9.47% 25
Yorkshire +59 71 £430 -28.33% 5
South West +44 47 £650 +44.44% 18
South East +33 44 £544 +8.75% 20
Scotland +2 24 £500 -9.09%
Midlands +24 23 £403 -15.21% 10
West Midlands +21 21 £403 -16.31% 7
East of England +18 15 £525 +55.56% 13
North West +6 11 £511 +57.31% 20
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +16 2 - - 3
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 37 (15.68%) SAS
2 11 (4.66%) CICS
3 7 (2.97%) WebSphere
4 6 (2.54%) Confluence
5 5 (2.12%) IBM HTTP Server
5 5 (2.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (2.12%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (2.12%) WebSphere Portal
6 3 (1.27%) IIS
7 2 (0.85%) Appian
7 2 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.85%) FileNet
8 1 (0.42%) Apache
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.42%) CMS
8 1 (0.42%) JBoss
8 1 (0.42%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.12%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Maximo
2 6 (2.54%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.02%) AWS
2 15 (6.36%) GitHub
3 12 (5.08%) Azure
4 9 (3.81%) PaaS
4 9 (3.81%) SaaS
5 7 (2.97%) Apigee
6 5 (2.12%) Kong
7 4 (1.69%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.42%) GCP
10 1 (0.42%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Serverless
10 1 (0.42%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.47%) SAN
2 9 (3.81%) DWDM
2 9 (3.81%) PBX
2 9 (3.81%) VoIP
3 8 (3.39%) WAN
4 7 (2.97%) HTTP
4 7 (2.97%) SDH
5 6 (2.54%) SSL
6 4 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.69%) Firewall
6 4 (1.69%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.69%) Junos
7 3 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.27%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.85%) VPN
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.42%) DNS
9 1 (0.42%) Network Security
9 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.47%) DB2
2 12 (5.08%) IDMS
3 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.12%) OLAP
4 5 (2.12%) OLTP
4 5 (2.12%) Oracle OLAP
5 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.85%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.85%) Informix
7 1 (0.42%) Adabas
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.42%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (10.17%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (6.36%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.51%) Git
3 13 (5.51%) Rational Rhapsody
4 9 (3.81%) JIRA
5 5 (2.12%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.85%) JUnit
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.85%) Subversion
7 1 (0.42%) ERwin
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 78 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.29%) Finance
3 21 (8.90%) Telecoms
4 18 (7.63%) Banking
5 17 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.93%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.51%) Electronics
8 12 (5.08%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.97%) Aeronautics
9 7 (2.97%) Digital Economy
10 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.69%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Aviation
11 3 (1.27%) Billing
11 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Law
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 31 (13.14%) Architect
2 29 (12.29%) Developer
3 28 (11.86%) Software Engineer
4 26 (11.02%) Embedded Engineer
4 26 (11.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 23 (9.75%) Storage Manager
6 21 (8.90%) Programmer
6 21 (8.90%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.47%) Systems Programmer
7 20 (8.47%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 16 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.51%) Mainframe Developer
10 12 (5.08%) IBM Mainframe Developer
10 12 (5.08%) Lead
11 10 (4.24%) Ada Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Ada Software Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) Senior
12 9 (3.81%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (3.81%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (17.80%) ISPF
2 20 (8.47%) Kafka
3 18 (7.63%) Flash
4 15 (6.36%) YAML
5 10 (4.24%) J2EE
6 8 (3.39%) Middleware
6 8 (3.39%) REST
6 8 (3.39%) Spring
7 7 (2.97%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.97%) Web Services
8 6 (2.54%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (2.54%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (2.54%) SOAP
9 5 (2.12%) JSON
10 4 (1.69%) .NET
10 4 (1.69%) CSS
10 4 (1.69%) HTML
10 4 (1.69%) POSIX
10 4 (1.69%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.58%) Mainframe
2 20 (8.47%) Data Centre
3 19 (8.05%) IBM Mainframe
4 18 (7.63%) ARM Cortex
5 13 (5.51%) LPAR
6 11 (4.66%) DataPower
7 9 (3.81%) Blackberry
7 9 (3.81%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (2.54%) Driving Licence
9 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.69%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.69%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.69%) NVMe
11 3 (1.27%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 76 (32.20%) zOS
2 70 (29.66%) Linux
3 18 (7.63%) FreeRTOS
3 18 (7.63%) Unix
4 16 (6.78%) AIX
5 15 (6.36%) Windows
6 8 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.97%) Solaris
8 6 (2.54%) Windows Server
9 4 (1.69%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.85%) HPUX
11 1 (0.42%) Android
11 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (19.92%) Agile
2 37 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (15.25%) Risk Management
4 34 (14.41%) ITIL
5 33 (13.98%) Software Engineering
6 30 (12.71%) Storage Management
7 28 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (11.02%) Problem Management
9 25 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
10 24 (10.17%) Project Management
10 24 (10.17%) TOGAF
11 21 (8.90%) Performance Monitoring
12 20 (8.47%) ArchiMate
12 20 (8.47%) Configuration Management
12 20 (8.47%) Software Testing
13 19 (8.05%) Cost Management
13 19 (8.05%) Roadmaps
14 16 (6.78%) BPMN
14 16 (6.78%) Computer Science
14 16 (6.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (26.27%) JCL
1 62 (26.27%) REXX
2 32 (13.56%) C
3 29 (12.29%) Python
4 25 (10.59%) Java
5 21 (8.90%) CLIST
6 18 (7.63%) Assembly Language
6 18 (7.63%) Embedded C
7 16 (6.78%) COBOL
8 12 (5.08%) Ada
9 11 (4.66%) SQL
10 10 (4.24%) SELCOPY
11 7 (2.97%) JavaScript
11 7 (2.97%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.12%) C++
13 4 (1.69%) Perl
14 3 (1.27%) C#
15 2 (0.85%) ABAP
15 2 (0.85%) R
15 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 78 (33.05%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.32%) Degree
4 15 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.08%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (4.66%) HND
7 10 (4.24%) CCNP
7 10 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.69%) IBM Certification
9 4 (1.69%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.42%) CCIE
12 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.12%) Def Stans
1 5 (2.12%) DO-178B
2 3 (1.27%) MISRA
3 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 60 (25.42%) Time Sharing Option
2 22 (9.32%) NFS
3 17 (7.20%) ACF2
3 17 (7.20%) RACF
4 13 (5.51%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (5.51%) Microcode
5 9 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (2.54%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.12%) Docker
7 5 (2.12%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (1.69%) Firmware
8 4 (1.69%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 31 (13.14%) Ansible
2 27 (11.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 20 (8.47%) OMEGAMON
4 10 (4.24%) Kubernetes
5 8 (3.39%) Netcool
6 5 (2.12%) Rancher
6 5 (2.12%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.12%) SCOM
6 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (2.12%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (1.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (1.27%) Terraform
9 2 (0.85%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.85%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.42%) Istio
10 1 (0.42%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 46 (19.49%) Broadcom
2 37 (15.68%) Brocade
3 25 (10.59%) Dell
4 24 (10.17%) Cisco
5 23 (9.75%) Nokia
6 21 (8.90%) CA
7 20 (8.47%) Juniper
7 20 (8.47%) Oracle
8 19 (8.05%) Splunk
9 18 (7.63%) Lauterbach
10 15 (6.36%) Google
10 15 (6.36%) Microsoft
11 12 (5.08%) SAP
11 12 (5.08%) VMware
12 11 (4.66%) Syncsort
13 9 (3.81%) Avaya
13 9 (3.81%) Ericsson
13 9 (3.81%) Ribbon
14 7 (2.97%) Solace
15 6 (2.54%) ServiceNow