IBM Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

IBM
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.33% 0.81% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 2.68% 2.20% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile £494 £528 -
25th Percentile £525 £531 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 -
75th Percentile £575 £569 -
90th Percentile - £573 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £500 £441
% change year-on-year +10.00% +13.38% -23.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £73.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.80% -3.85% +18.18%

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 224 227 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 49.56% 36.97% 52.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 107 246
10th Percentile £343 £257 £204
25th Percentile £463 £394 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £600 £750
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 49 49
10th Percentile £16.37 £13.86 £20.36
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.73 £42.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.18% +32.65% -10.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £22.60 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +39.22% -63.53% +111.90%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Hertfordshire

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Watford - 6 £550 - 2
IBM
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) IIS
1 5 (83.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (83.33%) DB2
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Consultant
1 5 (83.33%) Maximo Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Maximo Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
1 5 (83.33%) Web Services
1 5 (83.33%) XML
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CAFM
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Facilities Management
1 5 (83.33%) ITSM
1 5 (83.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 5 (83.33%) Service Design
1 5 (83.33%) Service Management
1 5 (83.33%) System Testing
1 5 (83.33%) Workflow
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) Python
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware