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 30 October 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
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 99 116
Rank change year-on-year -2 +17 +53
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 22 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 1.05% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 2.35% 2.36% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 22
10th Percentile £431 £530 -
25th Percentile £458 £558 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +32.43% -15.91%
75th Percentile £695 £659 £530
90th Percentile £806 £675 £650
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £463
% change year-on-year -9.28% +31.08% -15.91%

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 850 933 1,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.94% 44.47% 41.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 590 810
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £417 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £739 £739 £788
Central London median daily rate £540 £547 £550
% change year-on-year -1.28% -0.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +216.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -49.06% +140.96% +1.22%

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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 30 October 2025.

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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Chatbot
1 3 (15.00%) Sketch
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) ChatGPT
2 3 (15.00%) Figma
2 3 (15.00%) IBM Watson
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) LAN
1 1 (5.00%) Network Security
1 1 (5.00%) SSH
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (50.00%) Banking
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) International Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Backup Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Designer
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.00%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Maximo Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Development Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (5.00%) OAuth
2 1 (5.00%) OpenID
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.00%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (15.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) AS400
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) iSeries
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Smart Meter
3 1 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (5.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 3 (15.00%) Agile
2 3 (15.00%) AI
2 3 (15.00%) Content Writing
2 3 (15.00%) Conversational AI
2 3 (15.00%) Conversational UI
2 3 (15.00%) LLM
2 3 (15.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (15.00%) User Experience
2 3 (15.00%) UX Design
3 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.00%) Migration
3 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.00%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (10.00%) Scrum
3 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (5.00%) COBOL
2 1 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) RPG
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) CFA
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Basel III
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (5.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) NetBackup
1 3 (15.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Genesys
1 3 (15.00%) Veeam
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Avaloq
3 1 (5.00%) Confluent
3 1 (5.00%) FNZ
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Okta
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) StreamSets