IBM Cloud Contract Job Trends in London

IBM Cloud Computing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 375 405
Rank change year-on-year -5 +30 +144
Contract jobs citing IBM Cloud 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.013% 0.020%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.016% 0.031% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 -
England median daily rate £563 £360 £600
% change year-on-year +56.25% -40.00% -21.31%

All Cloud Skills
London

IBM Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,245 6,397 7,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.69% 41.00% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,258 4,362 5,513
10th Percentile £349 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 38 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.81 £18.37
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% -6.67% +22.95%
75th Percentile £46.75 £58.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.30 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in London

IBM Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM Cloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM