IBM Contracts in Central London

IBM
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 100 154
Rank change year-on-year -5 +54 -10
Contract jobs citing IBM 24 33 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.20% 1.35% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 3.18% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 13
10th Percentile £340 £450 £430
25th Percentile £444 £513 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +19.15%
75th Percentile £712 £756 £750
90th Percentile £798 £938 -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% -7.33%

All Vendors
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 900 1,037 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.07% 42.40% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 763 1,020
10th Percentile £312 £310 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £791
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
% change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Central London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Central London.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Central London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Central London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -4 21 £650 +8.33% 7
IBM
London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) CICS
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
3 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Documentum
4 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) GitHub
3 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
4 2 (8.33%) BigCommerce
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) dbt
4 2 (8.33%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) IBM Blueworks
4 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Boomi
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) IBM Watson
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.17%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) SWIFTNet
2 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.33%) DB2
1 2 (8.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (8.33%) Flink
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.17%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.17%) Crucible
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) JBehave
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Serena SBM
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (4.17%) Back Office
5 1 (4.17%) Front Office
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Programmer
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (12.50%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Product Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Process Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Product Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Products Support Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) RPG Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Integration Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) ISPF
1 3 (12.50%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (8.33%) LDAP
3 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.33%) AS400
2 2 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Equities
3 1 (4.17%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.17%) iSeries
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) zOS
2 2 (8.33%) Solaris
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) AIX
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
3 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Analytics
4 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (8.33%) Data Security
6 2 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (8.33%) E-Commerce
6 2 (8.33%) ERP
6 2 (8.33%) ETL
6 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (8.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (8.33%) Process Management
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum
6 2 (8.33%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Python
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) JCL
4 3 (12.50%) Perl
4 3 (12.50%) REXX
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
5 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.33%) RPG
5 2 (8.33%) RPG IV
6 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) CLIST
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.17%) R
6 1 (4.17%) Ruby
6 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) GRC
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Docker
3 1 (4.17%) NFS
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.17%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (4.17%) Veritas File System
3 1 (4.17%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Control-M
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) QRadar
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) Netcool
3 1 (4.17%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (4.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) BMC
2 2 (8.33%) Confluent
2 2 (8.33%) CyberArk
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Qualys
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (8.33%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) EMC
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) SaltStack
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Serena
3 1 (4.17%) TIBCO