Platform Symphony Contracts in the City of London

IBM Platform Symphony
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Platform Symphony skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Platform Symphony over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 172
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Platform Symphony 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - 0.055%
As % of the System Software category 0.54% - 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £549
25th Percentile £707 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - £663
75th Percentile £720 - £734
90th Percentile - - £766
Central London median daily rate £713 - £663

All System Software Skills
City of London

Platform Symphony falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 184 239 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.48% 10.95% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 177 294
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £404 £388 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £725
90th Percentile £695 £747 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £488 £560
% change year-on-year +7.69% -12.95% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £36.05 - -
25th Percentile £57.13 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £98.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +146.25% - -
75th Percentile £146.13 - -
90th Percentile £170.95 £46.15 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.48 £40.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -38.81% +70.21% -7.84%

Platform Symphony
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Platform Symphony in the City of London

Platform Symphony
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Platform Symphony 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) TIBCO