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 30 June 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
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 103 156
Rank change year-on-year -3 +53 +10
Contract jobs citing IBM 21 31 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.08% 1.32% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.35% 2.98% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 13
10th Percentile £348 £458 £300
25th Percentile £404 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +31.58% -21.97%
75th Percentile £720 £795 £738
90th Percentile £791 £945 £750
London median daily rate £600 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 892 1,040 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.79% 44.29% 40.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 762 1,009
10th Percentile £306 £325 £225
25th Percentile £423 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £530 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -1.12% -2.55% -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 9
10th Percentile £23.05 £12.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.75 £15.19 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.00 £21.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.53% -13.00% -24.24%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £52.75
90th Percentile £79.34 £63.53 £53.15
London median hourly rate £28.33 £23.80 £30.25
% change year-on-year +19.01% -21.32% -13.57%

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 30 June 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

IBM
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 30 June 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 -6 20 £550 -16.98% 29
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 3 (14.29%) CICS
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Documentum
3 1 (4.76%) SAS
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Chatbot
1 3 (14.29%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) IBM Watson
4 3 (14.29%) ChatGPT
4 3 (14.29%) Figma
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.76%) OCI
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) DB2
1 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Crucible
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (4.76%) JBehave
3 1 (4.76%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (4.76%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (47.62%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Banking
4 3 (14.29%) Retail
5 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.76%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (19.05%) Architect
1 4 (19.05%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) Designer
2 3 (14.29%) Programmer
2 3 (14.29%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (14.29%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Development Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Documentum Specialist
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) ISPF
2 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.76%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
2 1 (4.76%) XACML
2 1 (4.76%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (14.29%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.52%) AS400
2 2 (9.52%) iSeries
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) Equities
3 1 (4.76%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) zOS
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
3 1 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (4.76%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (19.05%) Agile
2 4 (19.05%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (14.29%) Content Writing
3 3 (14.29%) Conversational AI
3 3 (14.29%) Conversational UI
3 3 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 3 (14.29%) LLM
3 3 (14.29%) Microservices
3 3 (14.29%) Migration
3 3 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 3 (14.29%) User Experience
3 3 (14.29%) UX Design
4 2 (9.52%) API Integration
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) C#
3 3 (14.29%) JCL
3 3 (14.29%) REXX
4 2 (9.52%) Perl
4 2 (9.52%) RPG
5 1 (4.76%) Assembly Language
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) CLIST
5 1 (4.76%) COBOL
5 1 (4.76%) Groovy
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CFA
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) GRC
1 1 (4.76%) ISO 20022
1 1 (4.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (4.76%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (4.76%) Veritas File System
3 1 (4.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Control-M
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.52%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Netcool
2 1 (4.76%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (4.76%) QRadar
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Genesys
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.76%) Bloomberg
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
3 1 (4.76%) FNZ
3 1 (4.76%) Okta
3 1 (4.76%) Qualys
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) SaltStack
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Siebel
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) TIBCO
3 1 (4.76%) VMware