IBM Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 99 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing IBM 25 22 24
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.11% 1.25% 1.15%
As % of the Vendors category 2.51% 2.55% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 11
10th Percentile - £400 £550
25th Percentile £463 £450 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £672
90th Percentile £696 £761 £775
Central London median daily rate £496 £550 £619
% change year-on-year -9.77% -11.11% +37.50%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 995 862 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.18% 48.92% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 704 575 598
10th Percentile £333 £323 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.14% -1.65%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £768
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.16% +28.33% +30.12%
75th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.65 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £31.58 £27.00
% change year-on-year -20.62% +16.94% +30.12%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IBM

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the City of London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IBM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Camunda
2 1 (4.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) DataStage
1 2 (8.00%) Db2
1 2 (8.00%) Metadata
1 2 (8.00%) Tableau
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.00%) JMeter
1 3 (12.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (12.00%) Postman
1 3 (12.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (8.00%) eggPlant
2 2 (8.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.00%) ERwin
3 1 (4.00%) Gatling
3 1 (4.00%) Gradle
3 1 (4.00%) Selenium
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Banking
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Private Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Lead
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Designer
5 2 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Mainframe Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.00%) DataStage Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (4.00%) RPG Analyst Programmer
6 1 (4.00%) RPG Programmer
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Kafka
1 6 (24.00%) XML
2 4 (16.00%) .NET
2 4 (16.00%) Web Services
3 3 (12.00%) Middleware
4 2 (8.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.00%) HTML
4 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.00%) XBRL
5 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.00%) jBPM
5 1 (4.00%) JMS
5 1 (4.00%) JSON
5 1 (4.00%) MicroProfile
5 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) REST
5 1 (4.00%) RESTEasy
5 1 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (8.00%) AS400
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) iSeries
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 2 (8.00%) zOS
3 1 (4.00%) MVS
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (20.00%) Migration
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) DevOps
3 4 (16.00%) Observability
3 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Batch Processing
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (8.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (8.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Java
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) C#
3 2 (8.00%) C++
3 2 (8.00%) JCL
3 2 (8.00%) RPG
4 1 (4.00%) COBOL
4 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.00%) REXX
4 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
3 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) CISA
4 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.00%) ISEB
4 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 19770
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SEPA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) HP Fortify
2 2 (8.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Control-M
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) SAP
4 2 (8.00%) Broadcom
4 2 (8.00%) Google
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Cognizant
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.00%) EMC
5 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) New Relic
5 1 (4.00%) Palantir
5 1 (4.00%) Pega
5 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.00%) Sparx
5 1 (4.00%) Splunk
5 1 (4.00%) Sybase
5 1 (4.00%) VMware