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 19 May 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 98 92
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +62
Contract jobs citing IBM 16 20 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.69% 1.15% 1.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.68% 2.58% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 19
10th Percentile £416 £333 £443
25th Percentile £469 £404 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £670 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +11.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £720 £783
90th Percentile £740 £806 £940
Central London median daily rate £525 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -13.93% +1.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 - -

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 950 776 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.21% 44.70% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 476 692
10th Percentile £363 £313 £313
25th Percentile £439 £450 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £24.22 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.70 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -30.47% +52.08% -5.95%

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 19 May 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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (12.50%) IBM Watson
3 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (6.25%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) DB2
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Ant
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) Liquibase
2 1 (6.25%) ERwin
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Architect
1 3 (18.75%) Data Scientist
2 2 (12.50%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
2 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Lead Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.25%) SIAM Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Matplotlib
1 2 (12.50%) NumPy
1 2 (12.50%) Pandas
1 2 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 2 (12.50%) Seaborn
1 2 (12.50%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) Backbone.js
2 1 (6.25%) Bootstrap
2 1 (6.25%) Ember.js
2 1 (6.25%) jBPM
2 1 (6.25%) JMS
2 1 (6.25%) jQuery
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (6.25%) React
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) RESTEasy
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Android
2 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) AI
1 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (25.00%) LLM
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Data Science
2 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
2 3 (18.75%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (18.75%) Statistics
3 2 (12.50%) Compliance Audit
3 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Dialogue System
3 2 (12.50%) Linear Algebra
3 2 (12.50%) Microservices
3 2 (12.50%) Observability
3 2 (12.50%) Runbook
3 2 (12.50%) SIAM
3 2 (12.50%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Assembly Language
4 1 (6.25%) Bash
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JCL
4 1 (6.25%) REXX
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) CISA
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
2 1 (6.25%) SEPA
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (6.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Podman
4 1 (6.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Cognos
2 2 (12.50%) Sage
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) BMC
3 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
3 1 (6.25%) Brocade
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Pega
3 1 (6.25%) Sparx