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 21 May 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 93 152
Rank change year-on-year -9 +59 -4
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 35 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.16% 1.61% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 2.58% 3.69% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 11
10th Percentile £333 £439 £463
25th Percentile £404 £516 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £606 £700
Median % change year-on-year +10.52% -13.39% +19.66%
75th Percentile £720 £786 £750
90th Percentile £806 £941 -
Central London median daily rate £610 £606 £700
% change year-on-year +0.62% -13.39% +18.64%

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 775 949 1,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.95% 43.55% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 701 917
10th Percentile £313 £313 £262
25th Percentile £446 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £759 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £23.40 £12.75 £14.87
25th Percentile £27.39 £13.56 £18.42
Median hourly rate £34.65 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.44% -5.95% -11.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £23.75 £36.97
90th Percentile £117.50 £25.38 £53.15
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £19.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year +52.08% -5.95% -20.27%

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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 21 May 2025.

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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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 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) CICS
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.00%) Apache
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (5.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.00%) Boomi
4 1 (5.00%) dbt
4 1 (5.00%) IaaS
4 1 (5.00%) IBM Watson
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) DB2
1 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Flink
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
2 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Crucible
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) JBehave
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Serena SBM
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Front Office
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Programmer
2 3 (15.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) RPG Developer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Data Product Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Integration Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Grid Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Java Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Product Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) ISPF
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) IBM Integration Bus
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (10.00%) AS400
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Equities
3 1 (5.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (5.00%) iSeries
3 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) zOS
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (20.00%) Agile
2 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (20.00%) Microservices
3 3 (15.00%) Analytics
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (10.00%) API Integration
4 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (10.00%) Data Security
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.00%) High Availability
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
4 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (10.00%) SOA
5 1 (5.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (5.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) Python
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) JCL
4 3 (15.00%) Perl
4 3 (15.00%) REXX
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) RPG
5 2 (10.00%) RPG IV
6 1 (5.00%) Assembly Language
6 1 (5.00%) C++
6 1 (5.00%) CLIST
6 1 (5.00%) Groovy
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) Ruby
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) GRC
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) NFS
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.00%) Platform Symphony
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas File System
3 1 (5.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Control-M
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 2 (10.00%) Tivoli
3 1 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Data Guard
3 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.00%) Kibana
3 1 (5.00%) Netcool
3 1 (5.00%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) BMC
1 2 (10.00%) CyberArk
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle
1 2 (10.00%) Qualys
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (10.00%) Splunk
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (5.00%) Confluent
2 1 (5.00%) Dell
2 1 (5.00%) EMC
2 1 (5.00%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (5.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Serena
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase
2 1 (5.00%) TIBCO