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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 94 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 +53
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 22 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 1.25% 1.48%
As % of the Vendors category 2.12% 2.81% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 22
10th Percentile £380 £336 £416
25th Percentile £447 £424 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -0.83%
75th Percentile £588 £716 £755
90th Percentile £725 £802 £924
Central London median daily rate £510 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -0.83%
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 943 782 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.40% 44.41% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 495 697
10th Percentile £363 £314 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -0.45% -1.34%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £760 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 6
10th Percentile - £29.56 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.81 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £42.50 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -54.12% +115.19% -5.95%
75th Percentile £33.76 £81.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £135.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £32.83 £18.93
% change year-on-year -22.41% +73.40% -11.95%

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

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 19 April 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

IBM
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%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
1 1 (5.00%) SAP EWM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP PM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (5.00%) SAP QM
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (5.00%) SAP WM
1 1 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (15.00%) IBM Watson
3 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Power BI
1 3 (15.00%) Tableau
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Metadata
2 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.00%) DataStage
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Ant
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) ERwin
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Legal
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Lead
3 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Data Modeller
4 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SIAM Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Matplotlib
1 3 (15.00%) NumPy
1 3 (15.00%) Pandas
1 3 (15.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (15.00%) Seaborn
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) Backbone.js
3 1 (5.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (5.00%) Ember.js
3 1 (5.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (5.00%) Keras
3 1 (5.00%) MicroProfile
3 1 (5.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTEasy
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) FMCG
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) AI
1 5 (25.00%) LLM
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) Analytics
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Data Science
2 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (20.00%) Statistics
3 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (15.00%) Data Extraction
3 3 (15.00%) Deep Learning
3 3 (15.00%) Dialogue System
3 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
3 3 (15.00%) Linear Algebra
3 3 (15.00%) Linear Regression
3 3 (15.00%) Neural Network
3 3 (15.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) JCL
4 1 (5.00%) REXX
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Terraform
4 1 (5.00%) Podman
4 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (15.00%) Cognos
2 3 (15.00%) Sage
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) BMC
4 1 (5.00%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.00%) Brocade
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Confluent
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) Palantir
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) SmartStream
4 1 (5.00%) Sparx
4 1 (5.00%) StreamSets