IBM Watson Contract Job Trends in London

IBM Watson
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 380 - 419
Rank change year-on-year - - +164
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.036% - 0.005%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.081% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £446 - -
25th Percentile £497 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Cloud Skills
London

IBM Watson 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 6,161 6,430 7,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.30% 40.94% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,173 4,362 5,768
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £770 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £528
% change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 36 69
10th Percentile £18.56 £21.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.75 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.96% -11.18% +33.92%
75th Percentile £41.25 £56.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £71.13 £85.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in London

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Watson in London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Watson in London

IBM Watson
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Watson within the London region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Central London - 4 £550 - 3
IBM Watson
England

IBM Watson
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:

Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Chatbot
1 3 (60.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) ChatGPT
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) Dialogflow
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Matplotlib
1 1 (20.00%) NumPy
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Conversational AI
2 4 (80.00%) Conversational UI
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 3 (60.00%) Content Writing
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Experience
3 3 (60.00%) User Experience
3 3 (60.00%) UX Design
4 2 (40.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Dialogue System
5 1 (20.00%) Linear Algebra
5 1 (20.00%) Linear Regression
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Understanding
5 1 (20.00%) Personalization
5 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Genesys
3 2 (40.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) Cognos
4 1 (20.00%) Sage