IBM Contracts 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 16 June 2024, 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
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 154 152
Rank change year-on-year +59 -2 -27
Contract jobs citing IBM 32 12 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.47% 0.35% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 3.40% 0.88% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 25
10th Percentile £468 £425 £490
25th Percentile £550 £510 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £595
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +17.65% -0.83%
75th Percentile £795 £750 £638
90th Percentile £945 - £750
Central London median daily rate £625 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -

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 940 1,359 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.08% 39.67% 38.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 895 1,194
10th Percentile £331 £261 £313
25th Percentile £450 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £675
90th Percentile £789 £800 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 20
10th Percentile £12.75 £14.87 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.19 £18.42 £19.88
Median hourly rate £21.75 £50.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.50% +88.68% +87.61%
75th Percentile £24.56 £52.88 £44.78
90th Percentile £63.53 £53.30 £52.83
Central London median hourly rate £21.75 £37.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -42.00% +41.51% +84.57%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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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 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the City of London region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £700 -
IBM
Central London

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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 5 (15.63%) MQSeries
2 3 (9.38%) JBoss
2 3 (9.38%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.38%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
3 2 (6.25%) nginx
3 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.13%) CICS
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Temenos T24
2 1 (3.13%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (3.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Alation
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) GitHub
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) Relational Database
2 7 (21.88%) DB2
2 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
3 5 (15.63%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) HP UFT
1 2 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Private Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Arabic Language
7 1 (3.13%) French Language
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) German Language
7 1 (3.13%) Japanese Language
7 1 (3.13%) Korean Language
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.50%) AS400 Developer
4 4 (12.50%) DBA
4 4 (12.50%) RPG Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Sybase DBA
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Data Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Data Governance Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Governance Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Java Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Storage Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Developer
7 1 (3.13%) TIBCO Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) OpenID
1 6 (18.75%) XACML
2 5 (15.63%) SAML
2 5 (15.63%) XML
3 4 (12.50%) SOAP
4 3 (9.38%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (6.25%) jQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.25%) Struts
5 2 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (6.25%) Web Services
6 1 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.13%) ISPF
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) MDX
6 1 (3.13%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) AS400
2 4 (12.50%) iSeries
3 2 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Equities
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 6 (18.75%) Windows
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) zOS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Incident Management
3 6 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) Agile
4 5 (15.63%) Fintech
4 5 (15.63%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (15.63%) Security Architecture
4 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.50%) Change Control
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (12.50%) Wealth Management
6 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
7 2 (6.25%) Analytics
7 2 (6.25%) Data Security
7 2 (6.25%) High Availability
7 2 (6.25%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) SQL
3 10 (31.25%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) Perl
4 5 (15.63%) T-SQL
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) RPG
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) COBOL
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) JCL
7 1 (3.13%) VB
7 1 (3.13%) VBScript
7 1 (3.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) SEPA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) NFS
3 1 (3.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (12.50%) Control-M
4 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.13%) CA Endevor
5 1 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (3.13%) logstash
5 1 (3.13%) Packer
5 1 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (18.75%) Okta
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.63%) Sun
3 5 (15.63%) Sybase
3 5 (15.63%) Veritas
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Temenos
5 2 (6.25%) Micro Focus
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.13%) Brocade
6 1 (3.13%) CA
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) Informatica
6 1 (3.13%) Symantec
6 1 (3.13%) Talend
6 1 (3.13%) Varonis