IBM Contract Job Trends in London

IBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 4 November 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
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 234 218
Rank change year-on-year -40 -16 +60
Contract jobs citing IBM 105 152 220
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 0.98% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 2.24% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 96 150
10th Percentile £407 £284 £400
25th Percentile £505 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £500 £556
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -10.11% -5.72%
75th Percentile £675 £628 £699
90th Percentile £735 £688 £788
England median daily rate £513 £480 £540
% change year-on-year +6.77% -11.11% -4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% -7.14% +27.27%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,371 6,780 8,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.46% 43.65% 41.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,110 4,255 5,789
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £639 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 61 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -2.47% +58.17%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +73.08%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IBM job vacancy trend in London

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM

IBM
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +1 21 £550 -9.28% 27
IBM
England

IBM
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.52%) MQSeries
1 10 (9.52%) WebSphere
2 6 (5.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.90%) CICS
4 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) IBM Transformation Extender
5 1 (0.95%) nginx
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.95%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Chatbot
1 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.86%) Sketch
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Maximo
2 3 (2.86%) BusinessWorks
2 3 (2.86%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.95%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.95%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.95%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.95%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.05%) AWS
2 11 (10.48%) Azure
3 8 (7.62%) GCP
4 5 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.81%) SaaS
5 4 (3.81%) Serverless
6 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.86%) ChatGPT
6 3 (2.86%) Figma
6 3 (2.86%) GitHub
6 3 (2.86%) IaaS
6 3 (2.86%) IBM Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) IBM Watson
6 3 (2.86%) PaaS
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.90%) Azure API Management
8 1 (0.95%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) LAN
1 3 (2.86%) VPN
2 2 (1.90%) DNS
2 2 (1.90%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.90%) Network Security
2 2 (1.90%) SSH
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
2 2 (1.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.95%) Internet
3 1 (0.95%) SAN
3 1 (0.95%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) DB2
2 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.76%) Oracle Database
3 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.86%) Metadata
6 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.90%) NonStop SQL
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.95%) DataStage
7 1 (0.95%) GIS
7 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.95%) IBM InfoSphere
7 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 10g
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) JIRA
2 6 (5.71%) GitLab
3 4 (3.81%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (2.86%) Git
4 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.90%) ERwin
5 2 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.95%) Ant
6 1 (0.95%) JUnit
6 1 (0.95%) Log4j
6 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.95%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (37.14%) Banking
2 37 (35.24%) Finance
3 25 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.62%) Private Banking
5 7 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.86%) International Banking
8 3 (2.86%) Retail
9 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.90%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.95%) Billing
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Front Office
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (20.95%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Consultant
3 17 (16.19%) Architect
4 15 (14.29%) Analyst
5 10 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.71%) Analyst Developer
6 6 (5.71%) Lead
6 6 (5.71%) RPG Developer
7 5 (4.76%) AS400 Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Senior
8 4 (3.81%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Payments Analyst
8 4 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Backup Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) Designer
9 3 (2.86%) Lead Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Management Consultant
9 3 (2.86%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.86%) TIBCO Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (19.05%) XML
2 14 (13.33%) EntireX
3 8 (7.62%) Kafka
4 7 (6.67%) JSON
5 6 (5.71%) JMS
5 6 (5.71%) SOAP
6 5 (4.76%) OAuth
6 5 (4.76%) XSLT
7 4 (3.81%) Middleware
7 4 (3.81%) Spring
7 4 (3.81%) Web Services
7 4 (3.81%) WSDL
8 3 (2.86%) J2EE
8 3 (2.86%) OC4J
8 3 (2.86%) REST
8 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.86%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (2.86%) XSD
9 2 (1.90%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.90%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) AS400
2 9 (8.57%) Mainframe
3 6 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.76%) iSeries
4 5 (4.76%) Replication
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.86%) DataPower
6 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.86%) Tandem
7 2 (1.90%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.90%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.90%) PKI
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Linux
2 11 (10.48%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Unix
4 3 (2.86%) zOS
5 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.95%) AIX
6 1 (0.95%) VMS
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (14.29%) Migration
1 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (11.43%) Agile
3 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 8 (7.62%) Containerisation
7 7 (6.67%) Change Control
7 7 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 7 (6.67%) DevOps
7 7 (6.67%) Roadmaps
7 7 (6.67%) SOA
7 7 (6.67%) UML
8 6 (5.71%) Asset Management
8 6 (5.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (5.71%) Data Integration
8 6 (5.71%) ETL
8 6 (5.71%) Integration Testing
8 6 (5.71%) Microservices
8 6 (5.71%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.86%) SQL
2 17 (16.19%) Java
3 12 (11.43%) RPG
4 7 (6.67%) Python
5 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.81%) PL/SQL
6 4 (3.81%) XPath
7 3 (2.86%) CLIST
7 3 (2.86%) COBOL
7 3 (2.86%) REXX
7 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.90%) Jython
9 1 (0.95%) C
9 1 (0.95%) C++
9 1 (0.95%) Korn
9 1 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.95%) VBA
Qualifications
1 28 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 26 (24.76%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.86%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.95%) CFA
7 1 (0.95%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.67%) ISO 20022
2 6 (5.71%) QA
3 5 (4.76%) SEPA
4 2 (1.90%) Basel III
4 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) GAAP
4 2 (1.90%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.95%) GRC
5 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.95%) IFRS
5 1 (0.95%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.95%) MiFID
5 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.81%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Docker
3 1 (0.95%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.95%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Control-M
2 6 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.81%) Tivoli
4 3 (2.86%) NetBackup
4 3 (2.86%) TIBCO Hawk
4 3 (2.86%) Tivoli NetView
4 3 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (1.90%) OMEGAMON
5 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.90%) Terraform
6 1 (0.95%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) QRadar
6 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (17.14%) Oracle
2 16 (15.24%) Software AG
3 6 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.76%) TIBCO
5 4 (3.81%) HP
5 4 (3.81%) Informatica
5 4 (3.81%) SAP
6 3 (2.86%) BEA
6 3 (2.86%) Cognos
6 3 (2.86%) Genesys
6 3 (2.86%) Google
6 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.86%) Veeam
7 2 (1.90%) Dell
7 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.90%) Sparx
7 2 (1.90%) Splunk
7 2 (1.90%) webMethods
8 1 (0.95%) Citrix