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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 103 89
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +70
Contract jobs citing IBM 19 15 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.98% 0.83% 1.65%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 1.92% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 26
10th Percentile £389 £508 £409
25th Percentile £469 £535 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £638 £665 £650
90th Percentile £790 £785 £753
Central London median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -
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 901 783 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.37% 43.09% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 471 713
10th Percentile £350 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £456 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £18.75 £62.48 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.82 £94.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.02 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.56% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £41.80 £130.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £43.61 £164.85 £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +489.47% -9.52%

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

IBM
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 February 2026.

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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
1 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (5.26%) Maximo
1 1 (5.26%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP PP
1 1 (5.26%) SAP QM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.26%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon SageMaker
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (15.79%) IBM Watson
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 2 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) DNS
1 1 (5.26%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.26%) LAN
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
1 1 (5.26%) SAN
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Power BI
1 3 (15.79%) Tableau
2 2 (10.53%) DB2
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.26%) DataStage
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Ant
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Data Scientist
3 3 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Break Fix Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Mainframe Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.26%) SIAM Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Matplotlib
1 3 (15.79%) NumPy
1 3 (15.79%) Pandas
1 3 (15.79%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.79%) Seaborn
2 2 (10.53%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Backbone.js
3 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.26%) Ember.js
3 1 (5.26%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.26%) jQuery
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Keras
3 1 (5.26%) PySpark
3 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) AI
1 5 (26.32%) LLM
2 4 (21.05%) Analytics
2 4 (21.05%) Data Science
2 4 (21.05%) Machine Learning
2 4 (21.05%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (21.05%) Statistics
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Data Extraction
3 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (15.79%) Deep Learning
3 3 (15.79%) Dialogue System
3 3 (15.79%) Neural Network
3 3 (15.79%) Predictive Modelling
3 3 (15.79%) Supplier Management
3 3 (15.79%) Time Series Analysis
3 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
3 1 (5.26%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Java
3 1 (5.26%) JCL
3 1 (5.26%) REXX
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Cognos
1 3 (15.79%) Google
1 3 (15.79%) Sage
2 2 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) BMC
3 1 (5.26%) Broadcom
3 1 (5.26%) Brocade
3 1 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Palantir
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) SmartStream
3 1 (5.26%) StreamSets