IBM Contract Job Trends in Coventry

IBM
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing IBM 21 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 11.05% - 3.32%
As % of the Vendors category 17.95% - 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 4
10th Percentile £290 - -
25th Percentile £291 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £319 - £488
90th Percentile £400 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £429 £430 £525
% change year-on-year -0.29% -18.10% +10.53%

All Vendors
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 117 36 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 61.58% 33.33% 53.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 21 88
10th Percentile £263 £178 £250
25th Percentile £304 £315 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% -1.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £552
90th Percentile £705 £550 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £465
% change year-on-year +1.10% +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £20.60
25th Percentile £24.35 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.21 - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £26.00
90th Percentile - - £27.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £29.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year -7.76% +29.67% +32.96%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

IBM job vacancy trend in Coventry

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Coventry over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Coventry

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (52.38%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) VSAN
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Analyst
2 16 (76.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 10 (47.62%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (19.05%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (47.62%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Ticket Management
3 4 (19.05%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
3 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 20 (95.24%) VMware Infrastructure
1 20 (95.24%) vSphere
2 10 (47.62%) GPFS
2 10 (47.62%) NFS
2 10 (47.62%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) vRealize
2 10 (47.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (95.24%) VMware
3 11 (52.38%) AppDynamics
3 11 (52.38%) Commvault
3 11 (52.38%) SolarWinds
4 10 (47.62%) Oracle
4 10 (47.62%) ServiceNow
5 9 (42.86%) Dell
5 9 (42.86%) HP
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft