IBM Cloud Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

IBM Cloud Computing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Cloud 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.47% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £483 - -

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

IBM Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 67 30 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 31.60% 17.86% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 19 36
10th Percentile £313 £283 £200
25th Percentile £425 £325 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £473
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.05% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £550
90th Percentile - £581 £588
East of England median daily rate £485 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +9.30% -6.58% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £47.36 £37.50 £52.23
25th Percentile £56.21 £48.75 £53.69
Median hourly rate £72.23 £55.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.32% -3.93% +172.62%
75th Percentile £89.49 £61.25 £60.69
90th Percentile £99.10 £72.50 £62.08
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £18.00
% change year-on-year +74.74% +19.22% +10.77%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Cloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

IBM Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica