IBM Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

IBM
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 19 September 2026, 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
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.68% - 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 2.48% - 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £543
% change year-on-year -8.33% +10.60% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £23.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Vendors
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 121 154 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 27.63% 49.68% 37.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 93 82
10th Percentile £230 £187 £338
25th Percentile £380 £278 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £636
90th Percentile £602 £660 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 9
10th Percentile £16.48 £16.04 £29.50
25th Percentile £16.62 £30.34 £33.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -48.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £49.06 £68.50 -
90th Percentile £57.18 £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate £26.14 £22.63 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.51% -67.67% +23.92%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Gloucester - 1 £350 -
IBM
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) DataStage
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Accountant
1 1 (33.33%) AS400 Support
1 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ACCA
1 1 (33.33%) CIMA
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Teradata