IBM Contracts in Leeds

IBM
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 61 87
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 0
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.51% 0.25% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 3.26% 0.60% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £398
25th Percentile £675 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £320 £558
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -42.60% +35.15%
75th Percentile £725 - £650
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £606 £320 £554
% change year-on-year +89.45% -42.21% +30.29%

All Vendors
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 215 335 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.24% 41.93% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 212 366
10th Percentile £246 £313 £350
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £534
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -6.23% +9.49%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 2
10th Percentile £31.67 £12.10 £22.18
25th Percentile £38.32 £12.87 £31.81
Median hourly rate £65.71 £14.63 £48.25
Median % change year-on-year +349.28% -69.69% +141.25%
75th Percentile £99.42 £15.19 £64.31
90th Percentile £102.00 - £73.73
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £14.63 £32.50
% change year-on-year +180.34% -55.00% +103.13%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) DB2
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Wholesale Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Software Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (14.29%) EntireX
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (28.57%) Replication
3 1 (14.29%) Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) HPUX
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Case
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (28.57%) High Availability
1 2 (28.57%) Monte Carlo Method
1 2 (28.57%) Observability
1 2 (28.57%) Planning and Forecasting
1 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 2 (28.57%) Use Case
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
1 2 (28.57%) Sun
1 2 (28.57%) Unisys
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Software AG
2 1 (14.29%) webMethods