IBM Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

IBM
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 13 December 2025, 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 1 7 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.47% 4.02% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 10.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £450 £425 -
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 110 65 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 52.13% 37.36% 26.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 22 17
10th Percentile £363 £316 £120
25th Percentile £438 £408 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £623 £588 £560
90th Percentile £672 £611 £713
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £454 £488
% change year-on-year +10.13% -6.87% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
10th Percentile £17.80 £33.75 £15.60
25th Percentile £21.25 £45.00 £15.76
Median hourly rate £23.83 £63.75 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year -62.63% +287.13% -6.41%
75th Percentile £29.55 £75.00 £17.12
90th Percentile £38.67 - £17.24
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Cambridge

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform