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 18 July 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
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 103 95
Rank change year-on-year -13 -8 +54
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 22 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.82% 1.18% 1.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.99% 2.49% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 14
10th Percentile £380 £348 £443
25th Percentile £444 £404 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -13.73% +41.67%
75th Percentile £488 £720 £798
90th Percentile £738 £791 £946
Central London median daily rate £475 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -13.64% -12.00% +38.89%

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 1,004 882 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.25% 47.34% 44.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 558 682
10th Percentile £358 £325 £326
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% +20.00%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £76.88
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £21.75 £32.83 £27.00
% change year-on-year -33.74% +21.57% +13.68%

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 18 July 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 (10.00%) Confluence
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.00%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
1 1 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Watson
4 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Db2
2 2 (10.00%) Metadata
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) DataStage
3 1 (5.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Ant
1 2 (10.00%) Git
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.00%) Gradle
General
1 12 (60.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Applications Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Core Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.00%) Ember.js
3 1 (5.00%) jBPM
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) JSON
3 1 (5.00%) NumPy
3 1 (5.00%) Pandas
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTEasy
3 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.00%) Equities
1 2 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (10.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) AS400
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) AI
3 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (15.00%) LLM
3 3 (15.00%) Migration
3 3 (15.00%) Observability
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) BPMN
4 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (10.00%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.00%) Statistics
4 2 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) COBOL
5 1 (5.00%) JCL
5 1 (5.00%) REXX
5 1 (5.00%) RPG
5 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) CISA
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
3 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (5.00%) SEPA
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
1 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Cognos
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Palantir
3 1 (5.00%) Pega
3 1 (5.00%) Sage
3 1 (5.00%) Sparx
3 1 (5.00%) Sybase