IBM Sterling Contracts in England

IBM Sterling
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of IBM Sterling products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Sterling 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 IBM Sterling Order Management (formerly Yantra).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 541 651
Rank change year-on-year +69 +110 +123
Contract jobs citing IBM Sterling 13 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £513 - -
90th Percentile £545 - -
UK median daily rate £481 £500 -
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -

All Vendors
England

IBM Sterling 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

IBM Sterling
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Sterling in England

IBM Sterling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Sterling in England

IBM Sterling
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM Sterling in England

IBM Sterling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM Sterling in England

IBM Sterling
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 Sterling 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
London +45 8 £500 -
North of England - 4 £450 -
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North West - 1 £500 -
IBM Sterling
UK

IBM Sterling
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 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) HTTPS
2 7 (53.85%) SSH
3 6 (46.15%) SSL
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
1 3 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (38.46%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Unix
2 7 (53.85%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (53.85%) Data Security
2 7 (53.85%) Key Management
3 6 (46.15%) Cryptography
3 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (38.46%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
4 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (38.46%) Problem Management
5 4 (30.77%) B2B
5 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
5 4 (30.77%) High Availability
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Process Improvement
5 4 (30.77%) Service Management
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (23.08%) Time Management
7 2 (15.38%) Migration
7 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) ActionScript
1 10 (76.92%) ActionScript 2.0
2 4 (30.77%) C
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Korn
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) IBM Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) vRealize
2 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) ScienceLogic
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) VMware