ICL Contract Job Trends in England

ICL
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of ICL products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ICL over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 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 International Computers Ltd.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 503 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing ICL 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 - -

All Vendors
England

ICL 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 14,934 13,299 16,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.48% 45.90% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,682 8,112 10,891
10th Percentile £294 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 385 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £64.85
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

ICL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ICL job vacancy trend in England

ICL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICL

ICL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ICL

ICL
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 ICL within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
ICL
UK

ICL
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) PLM
1 1 (50.00%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Brocade
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco