IBM Contracts 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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 152
Rank change year-on-year -4 +55 +14
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.12% 1.36% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.47% 3.06% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 13
10th Percentile £348 £440 £300
25th Percentile £404 £550 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +31.58% -21.81%
75th Percentile £720 £800 £738
90th Percentile £791 £948 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £619 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% +30.26% -22.13%

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 811 949 1,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.59% 44.53% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 694 924
10th Percentile £313 £341 £260
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -1.63% +3.18%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £22.35 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.75 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £34.65 £21.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +59.31% -40.00% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £93.11 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £21.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year +42.53% -13.00% -24.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (15.00%) CICS
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) SAS
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Chatbot
1 3 (15.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) IBM Watson
4 3 (15.00%) ChatGPT
4 3 (15.00%) Figma
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) DB2
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Crucible
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (5.00%) JBehave
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Administrator
4 1 (5.00%) Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) ISPF
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OpenID
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
2 1 (5.00%) XACML
2 1 (5.00%) XML
2 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (15.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) AS400
2 2 (10.00%) iSeries
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) zOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Solaris
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (15.00%) Content Writing
3 3 (15.00%) Conversational AI
3 3 (15.00%) Conversational UI
3 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (15.00%) LLM
3 3 (15.00%) Microservices
3 3 (15.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (15.00%) User Experience
3 3 (15.00%) UX Design
4 2 (10.00%) API Integration
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JCL
3 3 (15.00%) REXX
4 2 (10.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) RPG
5 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) CLIST
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CFA
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) NFS
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas File System
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Control-M
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) Netcool
2 1 (5.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (5.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Genesys
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Avaloq
3 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) FNZ
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) Qualys
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) SaltStack
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (5.00%) VMware