IBM Contracts in England

IBM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 250 229 324
Rank change year-on-year -21 +95 -68
Contract jobs citing IBM 251 383 375
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.03% 1.03% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.17% 2.45% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 224 240
10th Percentile £358 £400 £350
25th Percentile £405 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £725 £750 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 32 4
10th Percentile - £58.00 £35.80
25th Percentile - £65.00 £37.00
Median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £45.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.46% +54.57% +5.09%
75th Percentile £28.10 - £57.50
90th Percentile £80.25 - £71.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -65.46% +3.70% +56.63%

All Vendors
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 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
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in England

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM in England

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in England

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in England

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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 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 -9 118 £550 -8.33% 115
North of England -9 53 £425 -1.16% 31
South East +37 31 £180 -67.27% 78
North West +31 24 £381 -22.95% 15
Yorkshire -33 23 £513 +19.19% 15
Midlands +15 16 £468 +16.08% 38
West Midlands +8 15 £460 +14.21% 11
South West +10 9 £600 -7.69% 36
East of England +23 6 £500 +5.82% 21
North East +3 6 £419 +4.69% 2
East Midlands +9 1 £480 - 27
IBM
UK

IBM
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 18 (7.17%) Confluence
2 12 (4.78%) CICS
3 11 (4.38%) WebSphere
4 10 (3.98%) SAS
5 8 (3.19%) MQSeries
6 5 (1.99%) JBoss
6 5 (1.99%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (1.59%) Apache
7 4 (1.59%) IIS
8 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
8 3 (1.20%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.80%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.80%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.40%) CMS
10 1 (0.40%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.40%) Documentum
10 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (3.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.99%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (1.20%) Maximo
2 3 (1.20%) Unica
3 2 (0.80%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.80%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.40%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.40%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.40%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (21.12%) AWS
2 47 (18.73%) Azure
3 27 (10.76%) GCP
4 10 (3.98%) Nutanix
5 9 (3.59%) GitHub
6 7 (2.79%) SaaS
7 6 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.99%) Collibra
8 5 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.59%) Azure API Management
9 4 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.59%) BigCommerce
9 4 (1.59%) IBM Blueworks
9 4 (1.59%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.20%) Boomi
10 3 (1.20%) IaaS
10 3 (1.20%) IBM Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.20%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.78%) HTTPS
2 9 (3.59%) DNS
2 9 (3.59%) SSL
3 8 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.79%) SAN
4 7 (2.79%) SSH
5 6 (2.39%) Network Security
6 4 (1.59%) HTTP
6 4 (1.59%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.20%) BGP
7 3 (1.20%) DHCP
7 3 (1.20%) Firewall
7 3 (1.20%) MPLS
7 3 (1.20%) OSPF
7 3 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (1.20%) VPN
8 2 (0.80%) Calico
8 2 (0.80%) HSRP
8 2 (0.80%) NetScaler
8 2 (0.80%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.76%) DB2
2 16 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 14 (5.58%) Oracle Database
4 13 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.99%) Metadata
7 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (1.99%) Power BI
8 4 (1.59%) Data Mining
9 3 (1.20%) Big Data
9 3 (1.20%) DataStage
9 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.20%) OLAP
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Exadata
9 3 (1.20%) QlikView
9 3 (1.20%) Tableau
10 2 (0.80%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.80%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 20 (7.97%) JIRA
2 11 (4.38%) Git
2 11 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.59%) GitLab
4 8 (3.19%) TeamCity
5 7 (2.79%) Rational Rhapsody
5 7 (2.79%) Subversion
6 5 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (1.99%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.20%) Ant
7 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.20%) ERwin
7 3 (1.20%) Maven
8 2 (0.80%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (0.80%) JUnit
8 2 (0.80%) MagicDraw
8 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.80%) Toad
9 1 (0.40%) Hudson
General
1 79 (31.47%) Finance
2 75 (29.88%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (18.73%) Banking
5 14 (5.58%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.79%) Marketing
9 6 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.99%) Front Office
11 4 (1.59%) Private Banking
11 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.20%) Electronics
12 3 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.80%) Back Office
13 2 (0.80%) Law
13 2 (0.80%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.80%) Publishing
13 2 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (15.14%) Architect
2 29 (11.55%) Developer
3 24 (9.56%) Consultant
3 24 (9.56%) Senior
4 19 (7.57%) Administrator
5 18 (7.17%) Server Engineer
6 17 (6.77%) Analyst
7 14 (5.58%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.38%) Senior Consultant
10 10 (3.98%) Break Fix Engineer
10 10 (3.98%) Programmer
10 10 (3.98%) Systems Programmer
10 10 (3.98%) z/OS Systems Programmer
11 9 (3.59%) Software Consultant
12 8 (3.19%) Infrastructure Consultant
12 8 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
12 8 (3.19%) Server Support
12 8 (3.19%) Server Support Engineer
13 7 (2.79%) Security Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.56%) Middleware
2 17 (6.77%) XML
3 15 (5.98%) ISPF
4 10 (3.98%) Kafka
4 10 (3.98%) REST
4 10 (3.98%) SOAP
5 9 (3.59%) EntireX
6 8 (3.19%) RESTful
7 7 (2.79%) .NET
8 6 (2.39%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (2.39%) WebSphere MQ
9 5 (1.99%) Web Services
9 5 (1.99%) XSLT
10 4 (1.59%) LDAP
10 4 (1.59%) OAuth
10 4 (1.59%) OpenID
11 3 (1.20%) .NET Framework
11 3 (1.20%) EDI
11 3 (1.20%) JSON
11 3 (1.20%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.12%) Mainframe
2 32 (12.75%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.58%) Clustering
5 13 (5.18%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (5.18%) IBM Mainframe
6 11 (4.38%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.98%) AS400
7 10 (3.98%) Replication
8 8 (3.19%) iSeries
8 8 (3.19%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.79%) Reference Data
10 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (1.59%) Grid Computing
12 4 (1.59%) Taxonomies
13 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.33%) Linux
2 38 (15.14%) Windows
3 33 (13.15%) Unix
4 28 (11.16%) zOS
5 14 (5.58%) Solaris
6 13 (5.18%) Windows Server
7 12 (4.78%) AIX
8 9 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.99%) HPUX
10 4 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (1.20%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.80%) Android
12 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.80%) CentOS
12 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.40%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.29%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (15.14%) Agile
3 28 (11.16%) Migration
4 27 (10.76%) DevOps
5 24 (9.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (8.37%) CI/CD
6 21 (8.37%) ITIL
6 21 (8.37%) Project Delivery
7 20 (7.97%) Customer Service
7 20 (7.97%) High Availability
8 19 (7.57%) Performance Tuning
9 18 (7.17%) Roadmaps
10 17 (6.77%) Break/Fix
10 17 (6.77%) Data Governance
10 17 (6.77%) Service Management
11 16 (6.37%) Analytics
11 16 (6.37%) Data Modelling
11 16 (6.37%) Process Improvement
12 15 (5.98%) Project Management
13 14 (5.58%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.72%) Python
2 49 (19.52%) SQL
3 32 (12.75%) Java
4 21 (8.37%) JCL
5 19 (7.57%) Perl
6 18 (7.17%) REXX
7 15 (5.98%) Bash
7 15 (5.98%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.18%) Assembly Language
9 12 (4.78%) Shell Script
10 11 (4.38%) ActionScript
10 11 (4.38%) ActionScript 2.0
10 11 (4.38%) PL/SQL
11 10 (3.98%) C#
11 10 (3.98%) RPG
12 9 (3.59%) CLIST
13 6 (2.39%) C
13 6 (2.39%) C++
14 5 (1.99%) Korn
15 4 (1.59%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 17 (6.77%) Degree
4 12 (4.78%) IBM Certification
5 10 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.79%) CISSP
7 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.80%) Dell Certification
7 2 (0.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.40%) CEH
8 1 (0.40%) CISM
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) GIAC
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) SLA
2 14 (5.58%) QA
3 11 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.38%) GDPR
4 7 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.99%) GRC
6 3 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.20%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.80%) SEPA
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (5.58%) Time Sharing Option
2 12 (4.78%) Docker
2 12 (4.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.98%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (3.19%) RACF
6 6 (2.39%) Active Directory
7 4 (1.59%) Platform Symphony
8 3 (1.20%) NFS
8 3 (1.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 2 (0.80%) ACF2
9 2 (0.80%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.80%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.80%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.80%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.40%) Microcode
10 1 (0.40%) Samba
10 1 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (9.16%) Ansible
2 15 (5.98%) Tivoli
3 14 (5.58%) Kubernetes
4 13 (5.18%) QRadar
4 13 (5.18%) Terraform
5 10 (3.98%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 7 (2.79%) Control-M
6 7 (2.79%) Grafana
6 7 (2.79%) OMEGAMON
7 6 (2.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (2.39%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.99%) Kibana
9 4 (1.59%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (1.59%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.20%) CA Endevor
10 3 (1.20%) Nagios
10 3 (1.20%) Netcool
10 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.80%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.80%) SCOM
Vendors
1 37 (14.74%) Oracle
2 31 (12.35%) HP
3 28 (11.16%) Dell
4 19 (7.57%) Microsoft
5 18 (7.17%) ServiceNow
5 18 (7.17%) VMware
6 17 (6.77%) Splunk
7 15 (5.98%) Red Hat
8 13 (5.18%) IBM Sterling
9 12 (4.78%) Google
10 10 (3.98%) TIBCO
10 10 (3.98%) webMethods
11 9 (3.59%) CyberArk
11 9 (3.59%) Qualys
11 9 (3.59%) Software AG
12 8 (3.19%) EMC
12 8 (3.19%) SAP
13 6 (2.39%) SaltStack
14 4 (1.59%) AppDynamics
14 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace