IBM Contracts in England

IBM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 328 256
Rank change year-on-year +105 -72 -29
Contract jobs citing IBM 384 381 779
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.04% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.46% 1.80% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 244 484
10th Percentile £400 £349 £377
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £704 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 4 20
10th Percentile £57.50 £35.80 £23.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £37.00 £37.12
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.29 £43.10
Median % change year-on-year +54.57% +5.09% -13.81%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £54.06
90th Percentile - £71.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £43.10
% change year-on-year +3.70% +56.63% -13.81%

All Vendors
England

IBM is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

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

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in England

IBM
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 27 April 2024. 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 +67 170 £600 +9.09% 62
North of England +62 83 £430 -9.47% 25
Yorkshire +57 70 £430 -22.87% 6
South West +49 44 £650 +44.44% 19
South East +29 39 £550 +10.00% 23
Midlands +9 23 £403 -10.50% 9
West Midlands +28 21 £403 -10.50% 6
East of England +23 13 £473 +40.00% 11
North West +3 10 £495 +52.15% 19
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +9 2 - - 3
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 32 (8.33%) SAS
2 23 (5.99%) WebSphere
3 19 (4.95%) CICS
4 14 (3.65%) Confluence
5 10 (2.60%) IIS
5 10 (2.60%) WebLogic
6 9 (2.34%) Tomcat
7 8 (2.08%) JBoss
7 8 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (1.56%) Apache
9 6 (1.56%) MQSeries
9 6 (1.56%) nginx
10 5 (1.30%) Appian
11 4 (1.04%) CMS
12 3 (0.78%) IBM Domino
12 3 (0.78%) IBM Notes
13 2 (0.52%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.52%) FileNet
14 1 (0.26%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 7 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.26%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (2.86%) Maximo
1 11 (2.86%) Temenos T24
2 9 (2.34%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.26%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (13.80%) AWS
2 33 (8.59%) Azure
3 21 (5.47%) SaaS
4 20 (5.21%) GitHub
5 18 (4.69%) PaaS
6 17 (4.43%) GCP
7 11 (2.86%) Nutanix
8 9 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (2.34%) IaaS
9 8 (2.08%) Rubrik
10 6 (1.56%) Apigee
11 5 (1.30%) Kong
11 5 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.04%) Alation
12 4 (1.04%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.78%) OCI
13 3 (0.78%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.52%) IBM Watson
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.51%) SAN
2 24 (6.25%) SSL
3 19 (4.95%) DNS
4 17 (4.43%) Firewall
5 13 (3.39%) TCP/IP
6 9 (2.34%) DWDM
6 9 (2.34%) NAS
6 9 (2.34%) PBX
6 9 (2.34%) VoIP
7 8 (2.08%) DHCP
7 8 (2.08%) Kerberos
7 8 (2.08%) VLAN
7 8 (2.08%) WAN
8 7 (1.82%) SDH
9 4 (1.04%) Junos
10 3 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.78%) HTTP
10 3 (0.78%) SMTP
10 3 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (9.90%) DB2
2 23 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 16 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 14 (3.65%) IDMS
5 11 (2.86%) RDBMS
6 9 (2.34%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.82%) MySQL
8 6 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (1.30%) Metadata
9 5 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.30%) OLAP
9 5 (1.30%) OLTP
9 5 (1.30%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.30%) Oracle OLAP
10 4 (1.04%) Big Data
10 4 (1.04%) Sybase ASE
11 3 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.78%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.52%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (9.11%) Jenkins
2 24 (6.25%) Git
3 23 (5.99%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (4.95%) JIRA
5 13 (3.39%) Rational Rhapsody
6 10 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 8 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
8 7 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.56%) GitLab
9 6 (1.56%) JUnit
9 6 (1.56%) Mockito
9 6 (1.56%) Selenium
10 4 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.78%) Appium
11 3 (0.78%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.78%) Katalon Studio
11 3 (0.78%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.78%) Rational Performance Tester
11 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 123 (32.03%) Social Skills
2 84 (21.88%) Finance
3 34 (8.85%) Banking
4 29 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.21%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.39%) Electronics
7 13 (3.39%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.13%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.86%) Front Office
10 7 (1.82%) Aeronautics
10 7 (1.82%) Digital Economy
11 6 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.30%) German Language
13 4 (1.04%) Legal
13 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.78%) Back Office
14 3 (0.78%) Law
14 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (17.71%) Architect
2 54 (14.06%) Developer
3 30 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
4 27 (7.03%) Software Engineer
4 27 (7.03%) Storage Manager
5 25 (6.51%) Embedded Engineer
5 25 (6.51%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 21 (5.47%) Programmer
6 21 (5.47%) Senior
7 20 (5.21%) Systems Programmer
7 20 (5.21%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 19 (4.95%) Analyst
9 17 (4.43%) Applications Support
9 17 (4.43%) Consultant
9 17 (4.43%) Mainframe Developer
10 16 (4.17%) Lead
11 13 (3.39%) Security Architect
12 12 (3.13%) IBM Mainframe Developer
12 12 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.86%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.20%) ISPF
2 18 (4.69%) Kafka
2 18 (4.69%) Spring Boot
3 16 (4.17%) Spring
3 16 (4.17%) YAML
4 14 (3.65%) Middleware
5 13 (3.39%) Apache Camel
5 13 (3.39%) Flash
5 13 (3.39%) IBM Integration Bus
5 13 (3.39%) REST
5 13 (3.39%) SOAP
6 12 (3.13%) Web Services
7 11 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
7 11 (2.86%) OpenID
7 11 (2.86%) WebSphere MQ
8 10 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
8 10 (2.60%) XACML
9 9 (2.34%) LDAP
9 9 (2.34%) XML
10 8 (2.08%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.71%) Mainframe
2 31 (8.07%) Data Centre
3 18 (4.69%) DataPower
4 17 (4.43%) ARM Cortex
4 17 (4.43%) IBM Mainframe
5 16 (4.17%) Replication
6 13 (3.39%) LPAR
7 10 (2.60%) Clustering
8 9 (2.34%) Blackberry
8 9 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.34%) Derivative
8 9 (2.34%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.30%) OTC Derivatives
10 4 (1.04%) AS400
10 4 (1.04%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.04%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.04%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 108 (28.13%) Linux
2 79 (20.57%) zOS
3 55 (14.32%) Windows
4 26 (6.77%) Unix
5 18 (4.69%) AIX
6 17 (4.43%) FreeRTOS
6 17 (4.43%) Windows Server
7 16 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (4.17%) Solaris
8 8 (2.08%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (1.04%) VMS
10 2 (0.52%) HPUX
10 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (20.57%) Agile
2 49 (12.76%) Risk Management
3 48 (12.50%) DevOps
4 44 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (10.94%) Storage Management
6 38 (9.90%) CI/CD
6 38 (9.90%) Software Engineering
7 36 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 35 (9.11%) ITIL
9 34 (8.85%) Migration
10 33 (8.59%) Project Management
11 29 (7.55%) Software Testing
12 26 (6.77%) Continuous Integration
12 26 (6.77%) Enterprise Architecture
13 25 (6.51%) Roadmaps
13 25 (6.51%) TOGAF
14 24 (6.25%) Problem Management
15 22 (5.73%) Performance Monitoring
15 22 (5.73%) Scrum
15 22 (5.73%) UML
Programming Languages
1 64 (16.67%) Python
2 62 (16.15%) JCL
3 61 (15.89%) REXX
4 53 (13.80%) Java
5 44 (11.46%) SQL
6 31 (8.07%) C
7 29 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 23 (5.99%) COBOL
9 22 (5.73%) CLIST
10 19 (4.95%) Assembly Language
11 17 (4.43%) Embedded C
12 12 (3.13%) Ada
12 12 (3.13%) SELCOPY
13 11 (2.86%) Bash
14 10 (2.60%) JavaScript
14 10 (2.60%) Shell Script
15 9 (2.34%) C#
16 7 (1.82%) C++
17 5 (1.30%) Perl
17 5 (1.30%) RPG
Qualifications
1 96 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 83 (21.61%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.59%) Degree
4 14 (3.65%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (2.86%) HND
7 10 (2.60%) CCNP
7 10 (2.60%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.04%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.78%) IBM Certification
9 3 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.26%) CCIE
11 1 (0.26%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.26%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.26%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.08%) GDPR
1 8 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.82%) QA
3 5 (1.30%) Def Stans
3 5 (1.30%) DO-178B
4 3 (0.78%) MISRA
4 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.52%) GRC
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
5 2 (0.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.26%) COREP
6 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.26%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.26%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 60 (15.63%) Time Sharing Option
2 21 (5.47%) RACF
3 20 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (4.95%) NFS
5 16 (4.17%) ACF2
5 16 (4.17%) Docker
6 13 (3.39%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 13 (3.39%) Microcode
7 12 (3.13%) Active Directory
8 8 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (1.30%) Hyper-V
10 4 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 3 (0.78%) Firmware
11 3 (0.78%) vSphere
12 1 (0.26%) Lustre
12 1 (0.26%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.58%) Ansible
2 37 (9.64%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 22 (5.73%) OMEGAMON
4 21 (5.47%) Kubernetes
5 18 (4.69%) Terraform
6 15 (3.91%) Netcool
7 13 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.60%) Grafana
8 10 (2.60%) Tivoli
9 9 (2.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 8 (2.08%) EMC NetWorker
11 5 (1.30%) CA Endevor
12 4 (1.04%) Rancher
12 4 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (1.04%) SCOM
12 4 (1.04%) Tivoli Identity Manager
12 4 (1.04%) zSecure
13 3 (0.78%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.52%) Packer
14 2 (0.52%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 58 (15.10%) Oracle
2 45 (11.72%) Broadcom
2 45 (11.72%) Microsoft
3 40 (10.42%) Dell
4 37 (9.64%) Cisco
5 32 (8.33%) Brocade
6 27 (7.03%) Splunk
7 26 (6.77%) CA
8 23 (5.99%) Nokia
8 23 (5.99%) VMware
9 21 (5.47%) SAP
10 20 (5.21%) Juniper
11 18 (4.69%) ServiceNow
12 17 (4.43%) Lauterbach
13 16 (4.17%) HP
14 14 (3.65%) Dynatrace
14 14 (3.65%) Google
15 13 (3.39%) Okta
15 13 (3.39%) Syncsort
16 12 (3.13%) Red Hat