IBM Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

IBM
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford 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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 30 15
Rank change year-on-year -14 -15 +20
Contract jobs citing IBM 11 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 3.82% 3.83% 3.08%
As % of the Vendors category 7.53% 11.67% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 2
10th Percentile £305 £457 £320
25th Percentile £309 £486 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £489 £321
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% +52.34% -11.45%
75th Percentile £398 £609 £322
90th Percentile £430 £723 £322
Cheshire median daily rate £358 £489 £322
% change year-on-year -26.79% +51.86% -0.92%

All Vendors
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 146 60 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 50.69% 32.79% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 55 29
10th Percentile £310 £390 £499
25th Percentile £352 £416 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £520 £565
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -7.96% +1.80%
75th Percentile £488 £576 £586
90th Percentile £515 £620 £593
Cheshire median daily rate £447 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.86% - +10.53%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Knutsford

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Knutsford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Knutsford over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Knutsford

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford 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 8 (72.73%) Apache
1 8 (72.73%) JBoss
2 5 (45.45%) WebSphere
3 4 (36.36%) IIS
3 4 (36.36%) iPlanet
3 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (27.27%) Confluence
5 1 (9.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (9.09%) CMS
5 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
5 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Kerberos
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) SSL
3 1 (9.09%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle Database
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket Server
2 4 (36.36%) CA Release Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (9.09%) Hudson
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Billing
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Kafka
2 4 (36.36%) LDAP
2 4 (36.36%) OAuth
2 4 (36.36%) OpenID
2 4 (36.36%) SAML
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware
4 1 (9.09%) Ajax
4 1 (9.09%) CSS
4 1 (9.09%) CSS3
4 1 (9.09%) Hibernate
4 1 (9.09%) HTML
4 1 (9.09%) HTML5
4 1 (9.09%) JMS
4 1 (9.09%) JSP
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) Servlets
4 1 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Struts
4 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (9.09%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Unix
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Business Case
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Data Security
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Groovy
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
2 2 (18.18%) CBAP
2 2 (18.18%) CSPO
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO 20022
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 3 (27.27%) Tivoli Directory Server
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Progress Chef
2 4 (36.36%) CA Single Sign-On
2 4 (36.36%) CA Wily
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
3 3 (27.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) AppDynamics
3 4 (36.36%) Broadcom
3 4 (36.36%) Splunk
4 2 (18.18%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (9.09%) Adobe