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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 58 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing IBM 16 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.03% 1.26% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 4.68% 2.80% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 7
10th Percentile £319 - £308
25th Percentile £363 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - £500
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £440 - £510
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
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 £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% +18.18%

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 342 357 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 43.35% 44.96% 49.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 214 285
10th Percentile £212 £263 £198
25th Percentile £331 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £588
90th Percentile £645 £643 £683
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 20 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.75 £11.46
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.33 £13.00
Median hourly rate £23.19 £15.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.16% -20.68% +13.90%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.00 £65.00
90th Percentile - £43.89 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the East Midlands

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the East Midlands

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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

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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 18 September 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 -1 13 £413 - 5
Derbyshire -3 3 £463 - 6
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 13 (81.25%) AWS
1 13 (81.25%) GCP
2 4 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 7 (43.75%) Identity Management Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Break Fix Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) Hibernate
1 13 (81.25%) LDAP
1 13 (81.25%) OAuth
1 13 (81.25%) OpenID
1 13 (81.25%) SAML
1 13 (81.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (68.75%) RBAC
2 9 (56.25%) Identity Access Management
3 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) DevSecOps
4 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Break/Fix
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 2 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
7 1 (6.25%) Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (6.25%) Dashboard Development
7 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (6.25%) ETL
7 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.25%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Java
2 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (6.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (68.75%) GDPR
1 11 (68.75%) HIPAA
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (75.00%) Ping Identity
2 2 (12.50%) Dell
2 2 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Cognos