IBM Contracts in the East of England

IBM
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 99 116
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 13 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.64% 0.68% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 1.82% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £406 £226
25th Percentile - £426 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £473 £338
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +40.00% -29.69%
75th Percentile - £531 £416
90th Percentile - £557 £459
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £61.50 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £45.29
% change year-on-year -65.46% +54.57% +5.09%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the East of England

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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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridgeshire - 3 £500 - 8
Bedfordshire +3 2 £500 +26.58%
Hertfordshire +17 1 - - 9
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) MagicDraw
2 2 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (50.00%) Workload Management
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
2 2 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 2 (33.33%) SysML
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) UML
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Bash
1 3 (50.00%) Perl
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) PTC Integrity
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google
1 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) PTC
2 2 (33.33%) Sparx
3 1 (16.67%) Cognos