IBM Cloud Contract Job Trends in the East of England

IBM Cloud Computing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Cloud 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.063% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £454 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £360 £600
% change year-on-year +56.25% -40.00% -18.64%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

IBM Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 356 276 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.46% 23.85% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 162 233
10th Percentile £213 £213 £181
25th Percentile £350 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £444 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -6.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £620 £584 £571
90th Percentile £699 £674 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 31
10th Percentile £6.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +19.22% +10.77%
75th Percentile £54.50 £55.00 £44.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in the East of England

IBM Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IBM Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Cloud within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Bedfordshire - 1 £483 -
IBM Cloud
England

IBM Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Salt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Vertica