IBM Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

IBM
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 10 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 50 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.81% 1.36% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.79% 3.24% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £365 - £478
25th Percentile £368 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £423 - £519
90th Percentile £426 - £523
England median daily rate £475 £489 £550
% change year-on-year -2.81% -11.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +37.23%

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 390 278 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.40% 42.06% 49.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 165 243
10th Percentile £154 £255 £213
25th Percentile £333 £356 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £518 £555 £588
90th Percentile £625 £634 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 14 23
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.86 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.03 £13.00
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.15% +9.68% -11.73%
75th Percentile £25.14 £18.11 £46.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £48.03 £88.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 5 £415 - 4
Derbyshire -3 2 - - 4
IBM
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Identity Management Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Hibernate
1 5 (71.43%) LDAP
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth
1 5 (71.43%) OpenID
1 5 (71.43%) SAML
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) RBAC
2 4 (57.14%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Break/Fix
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (71.43%) GDPR
1 5 (71.43%) HIPAA
2 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
1 5 (71.43%) Ping Identity
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) HP