IBM Certification Contracts in England

IBM Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 539 644
Rank change year-on-year +66 +105 +136
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 12 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.049% 0.008% 0.018%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.16% 0.026% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £302 - £321
25th Percentile £425 - £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% +38.46% -25.71%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - £413
UK median daily rate £568 £450 £325
% change year-on-year +26.11% +38.46% -25.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Certification in England

IBM Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification in England.

Daily rate trend for IBM Certification in England

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Certification in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Certification in England

IBM Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification in England.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Certification in England

IBM Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Certification within the 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
South West +50 6 £600 +33.33% 4
London +40 3 £550 - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £400 -
North of England - 2 £400 -
South East - 1 £193 - 2
IBM Certification
UK

IBM Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Administrator
2 6 (50.00%) Security Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) zOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Security Auditing
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
3 5 (41.67%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) B2B
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) API Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Key Management
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) RACF
2 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
2 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) EMC
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) ScienceLogic
4 1 (8.33%) VMware