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 13 November 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
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 101 114
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +51
Contract jobs citing IBM 23 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.31% 1.04% 1.17%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 2.35% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 22
10th Percentile £407 £532 -
25th Percentile £458 £561 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £619 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +33.78% -13.95%
75th Percentile £703 £655 £536
90th Percentile £806 £674 £650
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £463
% change year-on-year -9.28% +31.08% -13.95%

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 869 938 1,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.43% 44.52% 41.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 588 803
10th Percentile £325 £326 £314
25th Percentile £414 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £677
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -49.06% +163.16% -7.32%

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 13 November 2025.

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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Chatbot
1 3 (13.04%) Sketch
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Maximo
2 1 (4.35%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (4.35%) SAP EWM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP PM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP PP
2 1 (4.35%) SAP QM
2 1 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.35%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) IBM Watson
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) ChatGPT
3 3 (13.04%) Figma
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) SSH
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.35%) DataStage
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (52.17%) Finance
2 11 (47.83%) Banking
3 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.04%) International Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Retail
5 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 4 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Backup Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Designer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 1 (4.35%) Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.35%) Development Manager
4 1 (4.35%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Maximo Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Development Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) EDI
2 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.35%) JSON
2 1 (4.35%) Matplotlib
2 1 (4.35%) NumPy
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) Pandas
2 1 (4.35%) PySpark
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
2 1 (4.35%) Seaborn
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) XACML
2 1 (4.35%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (13.04%) Replication
2 2 (8.70%) Credit Risk
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) AS400
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) iSeries
3 1 (4.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (17.39%) Agile
1 4 (17.39%) AI
1 4 (17.39%) Customer Experience
1 4 (17.39%) LLM
1 4 (17.39%) Natural Language Processing
1 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
2 3 (13.04%) Content Writing
2 3 (13.04%) Conversational AI
2 3 (13.04%) Conversational UI
2 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (13.04%) User Experience
2 3 (13.04%) UX Design
3 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
3 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
3 2 (8.70%) Migration
3 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
3 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
3 2 (8.70%) Scrum
3 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (8.70%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) SQL
2 2 (8.70%) Java
2 2 (8.70%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) COBOL
3 1 (4.35%) RPG
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) CFA
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Basel III
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) NetBackup
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.35%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Genesys
1 3 (13.04%) Veeam
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.35%) Cognos
3 1 (4.35%) Confluent
3 1 (4.35%) FNZ
3 1 (4.35%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Informatica
3 1 (4.35%) Okta
3 1 (4.35%) Palantir
3 1 (4.35%) Sage
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) SmartStream
3 1 (4.35%) StreamSets