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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 227 243 308
Rank change year-on-year +16 +65 -54
Contract jobs citing IBM 294 373 379
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.17% 1.00% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 2.47% 2.35% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 203 245
10th Percentile £358 £358 £365
25th Percentile £408 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +2.94% -11.30%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £610
90th Percentile £698 £775 £720
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 39 1
10th Percentile £24.77 £51.40 -
25th Percentile £24.94 £65.00 -
Median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.18% -12.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £64.76 - -
90th Percentile £136.13 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -64.18% +3.70% +22.73%

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 11,891 15,881 20,057
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.35% 42.41% 42.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 10,061 13,714
10th Percentile £278 £274 £266
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 1,080 543
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.54 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.70% +50.23%
75th Percentile £52.33 £59.95 £59.54
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.47
UK median hourly rate £25.23 £23.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +5.99% -41.23% +85.95%

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 25 June 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 25 June 2025.

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 25 June 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 +22 128 £600 - 143
North of England +33 62 £425 -9.96% 68
North West +25 34 £409 -20.10% 42
Midlands +19 31 £440 +16.27% 42
South East +10 30 £500 +11.11% 61
Yorkshire -1 25 £500 +16.28% 24
West Midlands +1 17 £460 +21.69% 15
East Midlands +18 14 £415 - 27
South West +12 13 £600 -7.69% 35
East of England +8 8 £525 +2.44% 26
North East 0 3 £419 +4.69% 2
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 26 (8.84%) WebSphere
2 14 (4.76%) CICS
3 13 (4.42%) Confluence
4 11 (3.74%) Apache
4 11 (3.74%) MQSeries
5 10 (3.40%) IIS
5 10 (3.40%) WebSphere Application Server
6 8 (2.72%) JBoss
6 8 (2.72%) SAS
7 3 (1.02%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.68%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.68%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.34%) Documentum
9 1 (0.34%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.02%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (3.06%) Maximo
2 3 (1.02%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.68%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (0.68%) Misys Midas
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.68%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.34%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.34%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 1 (0.34%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 75 (25.51%) AWS
2 59 (20.07%) Azure
3 42 (14.29%) GCP
4 11 (3.74%) GitHub
5 10 (3.40%) SaaS
6 9 (3.06%) IBM Cloud
6 9 (3.06%) Nutanix
7 8 (2.72%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.04%) IaaS
8 6 (2.04%) PaaS
9 5 (1.70%) Azure API Management
9 5 (1.70%) IBM Watson
9 5 (1.70%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.36%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.36%) npm
11 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.02%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.08%) HTTPS
1 12 (4.08%) SSL
2 9 (3.06%) DNS
2 9 (3.06%) SAN
3 8 (2.72%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.38%) SSH
5 5 (1.70%) Firewall
5 5 (1.70%) HTTP
6 4 (1.36%) Calico
7 3 (1.02%) DHCP
7 3 (1.02%) Kerberos
7 3 (1.02%) Network Security
7 3 (1.02%) SMS
8 2 (0.68%) Internet
8 2 (0.68%) LAN
8 2 (0.68%) VLAN
9 1 (0.34%) DWDM
9 1 (0.34%) FTP
9 1 (0.34%) SNA
9 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (10.88%) DB2
2 31 (10.54%) SQL Server
3 18 (6.12%) Oracle Database
4 16 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (5.44%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.04%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.36%) Big Data
9 4 (1.36%) IBM InfoSphere
9 4 (1.36%) OLAP
10 3 (1.02%) DataStage
10 3 (1.02%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 3 (1.02%) MySQL
10 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database 10g
10 3 (1.02%) Oracle Exadata
10 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (7.48%) JIRA
2 16 (5.44%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.42%) Git
4 12 (4.08%) GitLab
5 7 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 6 (2.04%) IBM UrbanCode
6 6 (2.04%) Subversion
7 5 (1.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.70%) Maven
8 4 (1.36%) Ant
9 3 (1.02%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.02%) ERwin
9 3 (1.02%) JUnit
9 3 (1.02%) Log4j
9 3 (1.02%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.02%) SoapUI
9 3 (1.02%) Toad
9 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.68%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 81 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 77 (26.19%) Finance
3 60 (20.41%) Banking
4 50 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.72%) Financial Institution
6 8 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.70%) Front Office
9 4 (1.36%) Private Banking
9 4 (1.36%) Retail
9 4 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.02%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Billing
11 2 (0.68%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Law
11 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (17.01%) Consultant
2 40 (13.61%) Architect
3 38 (12.93%) Developer
4 26 (8.84%) Senior
5 20 (6.80%) Administrator
6 14 (4.76%) Analyst
7 13 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.08%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.40%) Management Consultant
9 10 (3.40%) Programmer
9 10 (3.40%) Senior Consultant
10 9 (3.06%) Software Consultant
10 9 (3.06%) Systems Programmer
10 9 (3.06%) z/OS Systems Programmer
11 8 (2.72%) Break Fix Engineer
11 8 (2.72%) Infrastructure Consultant
11 8 (2.72%) RPG Developer
11 8 (2.72%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
11 8 (2.72%) Server Engineer
12 7 (2.38%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (10.20%) XML
2 26 (8.84%) Middleware
3 24 (8.16%) EntireX
4 19 (6.46%) OAuth
5 17 (5.78%) LDAP
5 17 (5.78%) SAML
5 17 (5.78%) SOAP
6 15 (5.10%) ISPF
6 15 (5.10%) Kafka
6 15 (5.10%) Spring
7 14 (4.76%) OpenID
8 12 (4.08%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.74%) Web Services
10 10 (3.40%) REST
11 8 (2.72%) .NET
11 8 (2.72%) RESTful
12 7 (2.38%) WebSphere MQ
13 6 (2.04%) IBM Integration Bus
13 6 (2.04%) JSON
14 5 (1.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.99%) Mainframe
2 17 (5.78%) Data Centre
3 15 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
4 14 (4.76%) Clustering
4 14 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe
5 12 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 12 (4.08%) Replication
6 10 (3.40%) AS400
6 10 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.06%) iSeries
7 9 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.06%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.04%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.70%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.77%) Linux
2 52 (17.69%) Windows
3 38 (12.93%) Unix
4 29 (9.86%) zOS
5 18 (6.12%) Windows Server
6 14 (4.76%) AIX
7 13 (4.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (4.42%) Solaris
8 5 (1.70%) HPUX
9 4 (1.36%) Android
9 4 (1.36%) Apple iOS
9 4 (1.36%) CentOS
9 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (1.02%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.34%) MVS
12 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (14.97%) Migration
3 43 (14.63%) Agile
4 38 (12.93%) CI/CD
5 35 (11.90%) DevOps
6 28 (9.52%) High Availability
7 27 (9.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (8.50%) Containerisation
9 24 (8.16%) Performance Tuning
10 21 (7.14%) Project Delivery
11 20 (6.80%) ITIL
11 20 (6.80%) Service Management
12 18 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (6.12%) ETL
12 18 (6.12%) Incident Response
12 18 (6.12%) Mentoring
13 17 (5.78%) Microservices
14 16 (5.44%) Analytics
14 16 (5.44%) Roadmaps
14 16 (5.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.73%) SQL
2 49 (16.67%) Python
3 44 (14.97%) Java
4 22 (7.48%) JCL
4 22 (7.48%) REXX
5 18 (6.12%) Perl
6 15 (5.10%) Bash
6 15 (5.10%) Shell Script
7 14 (4.76%) CLIST
8 12 (4.08%) Assembly Language
8 12 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 12 (4.08%) RPG
9 11 (3.74%) ActionScript
9 11 (3.74%) ActionScript 2.0
9 11 (3.74%) PowerShell
10 9 (3.06%) C#
10 9 (3.06%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.72%) C
11 8 (2.72%) C++
12 6 (2.04%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.46%) Degree
4 14 (4.76%) IBM Certification
5 12 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.04%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.04%) CISSP
7 5 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.36%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.68%) CEH
9 2 (0.68%) ECSA
9 2 (0.68%) GCFA
9 2 (0.68%) GCIA
9 2 (0.68%) GCIH
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.78%) QA
2 16 (5.44%) GDPR
2 16 (5.44%) SLA
3 9 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.06%) HIPAA
4 7 (2.38%) SEPA
5 6 (2.04%) ISO 20022
5 6 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.70%) GRC
7 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.68%) GAAP
8 2 (0.68%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 26 (8.84%) Docker
2 15 (5.10%) Time Sharing Option
3 12 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.72%) Active Directory
5 8 (2.72%) RACF
6 7 (2.38%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 7 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.36%) Platform Symphony
8 3 (1.02%) NFS
9 2 (0.68%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.68%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.68%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.34%) ACF2
10 1 (0.34%) GPFS
10 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.34%) Microcode
10 1 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 28 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 25 (8.50%) Ansible
3 18 (6.12%) Tivoli
4 14 (4.76%) Terraform
5 11 (3.74%) OMEGAMON
5 11 (3.74%) QRadar
5 11 (3.74%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 9 (3.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 8 (2.72%) Control-M
8 6 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.70%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.70%) Kibana
9 5 (1.70%) Progress Chef
9 5 (1.70%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.70%) SCOM
10 4 (1.36%) CA Endevor
10 4 (1.36%) Grafana
10 4 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (1.36%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 50 (17.01%) Oracle
2 37 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 24 (8.16%) Software AG
4 22 (7.48%) Splunk
5 20 (6.80%) HP
5 20 (6.80%) VMware
6 18 (6.12%) Red Hat
6 18 (6.12%) ServiceNow
7 15 (5.10%) Dell
8 12 (4.08%) IBM Sterling
8 12 (4.08%) Ping Identity
9 10 (3.40%) Dynatrace
9 10 (3.40%) Google
9 10 (3.40%) webMethods
10 9 (3.06%) TIBCO
11 8 (2.72%) CyberArk
11 8 (2.72%) Qualys
12 7 (2.38%) EMC
13 6 (2.04%) Cognos
13 6 (2.04%) SaltStack