IBM Certification Contract Job Trends 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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 494 541
Rank change year-on-year -49 +47 +163
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 2 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.039% 0.032%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
10th Percentile - £184 £350
25th Percentile - £187 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £193 £506
Median % change year-on-year +201.82% -61.98% +45.06%
75th Percentile - £258 £844
90th Percentile - £370 £850
UK median daily rate £581 £193 £800
% change year-on-year +201.82% -75.94% +128.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 10,815 8,708 11,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.02% 30.53% 30.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,091 5,371 7,130
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £419 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £735 £738
UK median daily rate £522 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 417 691
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.51 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.30%
75th Percentile £56.69 £68.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.08 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -37.13% -22.91% +15.31%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in England

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM Certification

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 27 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
North West - 2 £581 -
North of England - 2 £581 -
IBM Certification
UK

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Content Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) IBM