IBM Cloud Contracts

IBM Cloud Computing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Cloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Cloud over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 692 805
Rank change year-on-year +115 +113 -164
Contract jobs citing IBM Cloud 5 20 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.033% 0.056%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.090% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 27
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £550 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% +1.06% -4.08%
75th Percentile £650 £570 £700
90th Percentile - £725 £793
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £475 £383
% change year-on-year +26.32% +24.18% -7.78%

All Cloud Skills
UK

IBM Cloud is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,070 22,200 34,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.24% 36.90% 38.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,997 16,035 25,035
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 358 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £34.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% +59.99% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.60 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.31 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.13% +29.65% -3.85%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Cloud within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Work from Home +114 4 £600 +26.32% 1
England +108 2 £600 +26.32% 5
UK excluding London +47 2 £600 +26.32% 2
South East +13 2 £600 -14.29%

IBM Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Android
2 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (20.00%) MVS
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (20.00%) Data Security
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) SABSA
1 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) SAP
3 2 (40.00%) VMware