IBM Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

IBM
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Canary Wharf 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 14 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 29
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 3.85% 1.67% 1.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.41% 2.44% 3.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 - £450
75th Percentile - - £490
90th Percentile - - £514
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £416 - £450

All Vendors
Canary Wharf

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 Canary Wharf.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37 41 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf 71.15% 68.33% 45.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 65
10th Percentile £416 £410 £450
25th Percentile £495 £495 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.82%
75th Percentile £716 £634 £630
90th Percentile £1,000 £655 £660
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £540 £540 £540
% change year-on-year - - -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Canary Wharf citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EDI
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Integration
1 2 (100.00%) API Management
1 2 (100.00%) Change Control
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Korn
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle