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 15 May 2026, 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 230 229
Rank change year-on-year -56 -1 +70
Contract jobs citing IBM 130 121 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.98% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.73% 2.14% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 81 113
10th Percentile £350 £388 £421
25th Percentile £400 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £630 £685 £712
90th Percentile £708 £753 £830
England median daily rate £469 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £18.07 - -
25th Percentile £19.85 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £24.42 £70.00
% change year-on-year +186.65% -65.11% +16.67%

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 7,526 5,643 7,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.10% 45.53% 40.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,970 3,699 4,879
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 93 128
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.97 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -21.05%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.06
90th Percentile £77.98 £67.00 £58.63
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

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 15 May 2026.

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 15 May 2026. 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 -14 16 £525 -13.93% 6
East London -6 1 £416 +0.20% 2
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 13 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 11 (8.46%) Confluence
3 9 (6.92%) nginx
4 8 (6.15%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.85%) WebLogic
7 4 (3.08%) CICS
8 3 (2.31%) JBoss
9 2 (1.54%) Camunda
10 1 (0.77%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.54%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.54%) Maximo
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.77%) MetaTrader
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.77%) SAP AFS
3 1 (0.77%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.85%) AWS
2 20 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 5 (3.85%) GCP
3 5 (3.85%) GitHub
4 4 (3.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.31%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (2.31%) IBM Watson
5 3 (2.31%) MinIO
5 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
5 3 (2.31%) Serverless
6 2 (1.54%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.54%) IaaS
6 2 (1.54%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (1.54%) PaaS
6 2 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) HTTP
2 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.62%) APPN
3 6 (4.62%) SNA
4 3 (2.31%) Firewall
5 2 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (1.54%) LAN
5 2 (1.54%) SAN
6 1 (0.77%) DNS
6 1 (0.77%) DSL
6 1 (0.77%) DWDM
6 1 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.77%) MPLS
6 1 (0.77%) Multicast
6 1 (0.77%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.77%) Network Security
6 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.77%) VPN
6 1 (0.77%) WAN
6 1 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) DB2
2 10 (7.69%) DataStage
3 9 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.38%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.62%) Big Data
6 5 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.08%) Power BI
8 3 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.31%) GIS
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.23%) JIRA
2 7 (5.38%) GitLab
3 6 (4.62%) Ant
3 6 (4.62%) Git
3 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.85%) Liquibase
5 4 (3.08%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.54%) JUnit
6 2 (1.54%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.54%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.77%) git-flow
7 1 (0.77%) Selenium
7 1 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.77%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.77%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 34 (26.15%) Banking
2 27 (20.77%) Finance
3 22 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 19 (14.62%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Back Office
6 2 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.54%) Legal
6 2 (1.54%) Retail
6 2 (1.54%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.77%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Police
7 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Architect
2 20 (15.38%) Developer
3 10 (7.69%) Lead
4 9 (6.92%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.15%) Applications Architect
5 8 (6.15%) Senior
6 6 (4.62%) AWS Architect
6 6 (4.62%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (4.62%) T24 Developer
7 5 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.08%) Analyst
8 4 (3.08%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (3.08%) Integration Architect
8 4 (3.08%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.54%) Middleware
2 12 (9.23%) Kafka
3 10 (7.69%) Spring
3 10 (7.69%) XML
4 9 (6.92%) REST
4 9 (6.92%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.62%) SOAP
5 6 (4.62%) XSLT
6 5 (3.85%) JMS
6 5 (3.85%) Web Services
6 5 (3.85%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (3.08%) EJB
7 4 (3.08%) J2EE
7 4 (3.08%) JSON
8 3 (2.31%) Java EE
8 3 (2.31%) OpenLayers
8 3 (2.31%) WSDL
9 2 (1.54%) React
9 2 (1.54%) scikit-learn
9 2 (1.54%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.77%) Mainframe
2 12 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 12 (9.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.38%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (4.62%) DataPower
4 6 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.31%) AS400
6 3 (2.31%) Clustering
6 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.31%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.31%) VSAM
7 2 (1.54%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.54%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Windows
2 19 (14.62%) Linux
3 16 (12.31%) zOS
4 9 (6.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.15%) Solaris
5 8 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (5.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.85%) Unix
8 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.54%) AIX
10 1 (0.77%) Android
10 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (18.46%) Agile
2 22 (16.92%) Migration
3 20 (15.38%) DevOps
3 20 (15.38%) ETL
4 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
5 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (10.77%) Scrum
6 14 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (9.23%) Data Modelling
7 12 (9.23%) Microservices
8 11 (8.46%) AI
8 11 (8.46%) Roadmaps
9 9 (6.92%) Analytics
9 9 (6.92%) Break/Fix
9 9 (6.92%) Test Automation
9 9 (6.92%) Validation
10 8 (6.15%) Data Migration
10 8 (6.15%) Data Transformation
10 8 (6.15%) Master Data Management
10 8 (6.15%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 30 (23.08%) SQL
2 22 (16.92%) Java
3 16 (12.31%) Python
4 14 (10.77%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.08%) COBOL
6 4 (3.08%) Korn
6 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.31%) Bash
7 3 (2.31%) C#
7 3 (2.31%) JCL
7 3 (2.31%) XPath
8 2 (1.54%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.54%) Bicep
8 2 (1.54%) Perl
8 2 (1.54%) REXX
9 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.77%) Groovy
9 1 (0.77%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) Degree
4 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.54%) CCSP
5 2 (1.54%) CEH
5 2 (1.54%) CISA
5 2 (1.54%) CISM
5 2 (1.54%) CISMP
5 2 (1.54%) CISSP
5 2 (1.54%) CSSLP
5 2 (1.54%) GCIH
6 1 (0.77%) CCIE
6 1 (0.77%) CCNP
6 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.69%) SLA
2 6 (4.62%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.62%) QA
3 5 (3.85%) ISO 20022
3 5 (3.85%) SEPA
4 2 (1.54%) GRC
4 2 (1.54%) ISO 15022
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
5 1 (0.77%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.77%) Basel III
5 1 (0.77%) GAAP
5 1 (0.77%) GDPR
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.77%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (12.31%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (1.54%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (1.54%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.77%) Firmware
6 1 (0.77%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.77%) RACF
Systems Management
1 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 10 (7.69%) Terraform
2 9 (6.92%) Ansible
3 6 (4.62%) Tivoli NetView
4 4 (3.08%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (2.31%) Grafana
6 2 (1.54%) Avamar
6 2 (1.54%) CA Endevor
6 2 (1.54%) Control-M
6 2 (1.54%) EMC VPLEX
6 2 (1.54%) TIBCO Hawk
6 2 (1.54%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.77%) Argo
7 1 (0.77%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.77%) Kibana
7 1 (0.77%) logstash
7 1 (0.77%) Podman
7 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Oracle
2 11 (8.46%) SAP
3 10 (7.69%) HP
4 9 (6.92%) Dell
5 8 (6.15%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.38%) VMware
7 6 (4.62%) Temenos
8 5 (3.85%) Cisco
8 5 (3.85%) Google
8 5 (3.85%) Informatica
8 5 (3.85%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.85%) Veeam
9 4 (3.08%) Brocade
9 4 (3.08%) Databricks
9 4 (3.08%) Splunk
10 3 (2.31%) NetApp
11 2 (1.54%) BEA
11 2 (1.54%) EMC
11 2 (1.54%) Sage