IBM Contracts in the West Midlands

IBM
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 88 116 153
Rank change year-on-year +28 +37 -52
Contract jobs citing IBM 21 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.09% 0.97% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 2.48% 1.97% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 16
10th Percentile £330 £355 £450
25th Percentile £358 £370 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -14.29% +7.97%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £647
90th Percentile £711 £597 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.24%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 848 1,169 1,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.05% 49.12% 42.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 737 1,058
10th Percentile £254 £212 £198
25th Percentile £350 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 29 39
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.15 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.10 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +7.06% -4.00%
75th Percentile £28.75 £52.50 £21.26
90th Percentile £55.00 £72.30 £24.40
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire +39 10 £358 -
Birmingham +11 4 £500 -23.08% 4
Warwickshire +3 3 £600 +9.09%
Staffordshire +5 1 - -
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (42.86%) CICS
1 9 (42.86%) SAS
2 1 (4.76%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Maximo
2 2 (9.52%) NetSuite
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SDH
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) DB2
2 9 (42.86%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (9.52%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Billing
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Aeronautics
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Law
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Developer
2 11 (52.38%) Mainframe Developer
3 10 (47.62%) IBM Mainframe Developer
4 3 (14.29%) Lead
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) COBOL Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Lead Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Maximo Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Software Asset Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Software Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Mainframe
2 10 (47.62%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (14.29%) DataPower
3 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) zOS
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Scrum
2 11 (52.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (47.62%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.52%) Asset Management
5 2 (9.52%) Business Transformation
5 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
5 2 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (9.52%) CRM
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Data Protection
5 2 (9.52%) ERP
5 2 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (4.76%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (4.76%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 1 (4.76%) Presales
6 1 (4.76%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) COBOL
2 9 (42.86%) CLIST
2 9 (42.86%) REXX
2 9 (42.86%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) CA Endevor
1 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Syncsort
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 5 (23.81%) SAP
3 4 (19.05%) Salesforce
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.52%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) ICL
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Nokia