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 December 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 107 102
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +62
Contract jobs citing IBM 19 21 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.06% 0.98% 1.44%
As % of the Vendors category 2.14% 2.25% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 27
10th Percentile £420 £528 -
25th Percentile £458 £554 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £606 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +34.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £538
90th Percentile £806 £669 £660
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -12.50% +33.33% -18.18%

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 888 934 1,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.42% 43.73% 43.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 588 810
10th Percentile £325 £313 £318
25th Percentile £413 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -0.90%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £541
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.62% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 6
10th Percentile £20.06 £17.78 -
25th Percentile £34.48 £30.56 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £71.25 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.80% +243.37% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.03% +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 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the City of London

IBM
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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Maximo
2 1 (5.26%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (5.26%) SAP EWM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP PM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
2 1 (5.26%) SAP QM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (5.26%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (10.53%) IBM Watson
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) LAN
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) SSH
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
1 2 (10.53%) Tableau
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.26%) DataStage
2 1 (5.26%) DB2
2 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (52.63%) Banking
2 9 (47.37%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.79%) International Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Backup Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (5.26%) IAM Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Maximo Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Kafka
1 2 (10.53%) Matplotlib
1 2 (10.53%) NumPy
1 2 (10.53%) Pandas
1 2 (10.53%) scikit-learn
1 2 (10.53%) Seaborn
2 1 (5.26%) EDI
2 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) OAuth
2 1 (5.26%) OpenID
2 1 (5.26%) PySpark
2 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) XACML
2 1 (5.26%) XML
2 1 (5.26%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Replication
2 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) FMCG
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Agile
1 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
1 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (10.53%) Analytics
2 2 (10.53%) Data Extraction
2 2 (10.53%) Data Science
2 2 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (10.53%) Deep Learning
2 2 (10.53%) Dialogue System
2 2 (10.53%) Generative AI
2 2 (10.53%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (10.53%) Linear Regression
2 2 (10.53%) LLM
2 2 (10.53%) Machine Learning
2 2 (10.53%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (10.53%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (10.53%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (10.53%) Time Series Analysis
2 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Basel III
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) NetBackup
1 3 (15.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Veeam
2 2 (10.53%) Cognos
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Sage
3 1 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Okta
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Palantir
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) SmartStream
3 1 (5.26%) StreamSets