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 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 106 131
Rank change year-on-year +9 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing IBM 22 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.25% 1.14% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 2.59% 2.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 17
10th Percentile £400 £550 -
25th Percentile £450 £570 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +38.89% -21.74%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £530
90th Percentile £761 £775 £648
Central London median daily rate £550 £619 £450
% change year-on-year -11.11% +37.50% -21.74%

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 864 927 1,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.01% 44.18% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 605 856
10th Percentile £324 £350 £311
25th Percentile £413 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £743 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 8
10th Percentile £20.23 £16.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.75 £19.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% +30.12% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.21 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £31.58 £27.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +16.94% +30.12% -12.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM 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 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) CICS
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.55%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Chatbot
1 3 (13.64%) Sketch
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) ChatGPT
2 3 (13.64%) Figma
2 3 (13.64%) IBM Watson
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) DNS
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
1 1 (4.55%) SSH
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) DB2
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 10 (45.45%) Banking
1 10 (45.45%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) International Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 3 (13.64%) Analyst
2 3 (13.64%) Backup Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Designer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Development Manager
4 1 (4.55%) IAM Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) Programmer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.55%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (4.55%) ISPF
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) OAuth
2 1 (4.55%) OpenID
2 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) Spring
2 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (13.64%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) AS400
2 2 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 2 (9.09%) iSeries
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Smart Meter
3 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (4.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Customer Experience
1 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
2 3 (13.64%) Agile
2 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (13.64%) Content Writing
2 3 (13.64%) Conversational AI
2 3 (13.64%) Conversational UI
2 3 (13.64%) LLM
2 3 (13.64%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
2 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
2 3 (13.64%) User Experience
2 3 (13.64%) UX Design
3 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
3 2 (9.09%) Microservices
3 2 (9.09%) Migration
3 2 (9.09%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) Java
1 2 (9.09%) RPG
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) COBOL
2 1 (4.55%) JCL
2 1 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) REXX
2 1 (4.55%) RPG IV
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Basel III
2 1 (4.55%) GRC
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 20022
2 1 (4.55%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (4.55%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) NetBackup
1 3 (13.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.55%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Genesys
1 3 (13.64%) Veeam
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.55%) FNZ
3 1 (4.55%) Okta
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow