IBM Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

IBM
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bracknell requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 16 35
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 -
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 5.83% 1.33% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 12.50% 2.56% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.58% - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £473 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £423 £450 -
% change year-on-year -6.11% - -

All Vendors
Bracknell

IBM falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 48 39 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 46.60% 52.00% 52.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 30 50
10th Percentile £410 £271 £114
25th Percentile £481 £390 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £471 £425
Median % change year-on-year +16.71% +10.88% -16.05%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £519
90th Percentile £600 £625 £754
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -7.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £34.74
25th Percentile - - £53.05
Median hourly rate - - £61.63
Median % change year-on-year - - +112.50%
75th Percentile - - £62.00
90th Percentile - - £67.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.74% -5.43% -7.23%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Bracknell

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) OCI
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 6 (100.00%) Couchbase
1 6 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) High Availability
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Confluent