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 21 September 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 252 241
Rank change year-on-year -1 -11 -6
Contract jobs citing IBM 206 112 151
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.02% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 2.39% 1.81% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 79 92
10th Percentile £350 £405 £302
25th Percentile £429 £458 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% +17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £605 £675 £650
90th Percentile £735 £700 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £480
% change year-on-year -9.09% +14.58% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +188.27% - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +158.45% -64.07% +7.69%

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 8,613 6,201 7,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.76% 46.39% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,612 4,013 4,568
10th Percentile £331 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 119 78
10th Percentile £16.89 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £26.30 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -15.16% -15.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £64.69
90th Percentile £82.75 £64.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -28.14% -20.00%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -13 29 £505 -8.18% 25
South London - 3 £700 -
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 17 (8.25%) Confluence
2 15 (7.28%) WebSphere
3 12 (5.83%) SharePoint
4 9 (4.37%) CICS
4 9 (4.37%) nginx
4 9 (4.37%) Tomcat
5 8 (3.88%) Camunda
6 7 (3.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (2.43%) WebLogic
8 3 (1.46%) JBoss
9 2 (0.97%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.49%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.49%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.94%) Windchill
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (3.40%) Maximo
2 5 (2.43%) Temenos T24
3 4 (1.94%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (1.94%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.97%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.49%) Actimize
5 1 (0.49%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.49%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.49%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.49%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.39%) Azure
2 36 (17.48%) AWS
3 14 (6.80%) GCP
4 13 (6.31%) GitHub
5 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (3.88%) IBM Blueworks
7 7 (3.40%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.91%) Azure API Management
9 5 (2.43%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.43%) IBM Watson
10 4 (1.94%) Amazon Bedrock
10 4 (1.94%) Azure AI
10 4 (1.94%) Azure Functions
10 4 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.94%) Copilot Studio
10 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (1.94%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.94%) Serverless
10 4 (1.94%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.85%) HTTP
2 4 (1.94%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.94%) Firewall
2 4 (1.94%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.97%) Internet
3 2 (0.97%) SSH
3 2 (0.97%) SSL
4 1 (0.49%) APPN
4 1 (0.49%) BGP
4 1 (0.49%) Broadband
4 1 (0.49%) DMZ
4 1 (0.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.49%) DSL
4 1 (0.49%) FTP
4 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.49%) IPv4
4 1 (0.49%) OSPF
4 1 (0.49%) SAN
4 1 (0.49%) SMS
4 1 (0.49%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.28%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.31%) Oracle Database
3 11 (5.34%) Db2
4 10 (4.85%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.37%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.88%) DataStage
6 8 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (3.40%) Metadata
7 7 (3.40%) Tableau
8 6 (2.91%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.46%) Big Data
9 3 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.46%) GIS
9 3 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.97%) IBM InfoSphere
10 2 (0.97%) Power BI
10 2 (0.97%) Redis
11 1 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.49%) DataStax
Development Applications
1 23 (11.17%) Jenkins
2 19 (9.22%) Git
2 19 (9.22%) JIRA
3 11 (5.34%) JMeter
3 11 (5.34%) SonarQube
4 9 (4.37%) LoadRunner
5 8 (3.88%) Gradle
5 8 (3.88%) Postman
5 8 (3.88%) SoapUI
5 8 (3.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (2.91%) eggPlant
6 6 (2.91%) GitLab
6 6 (2.91%) Maven
6 6 (2.91%) REST Assured
6 6 (2.91%) Selenium
7 5 (2.43%) Bitbucket Server
7 5 (2.43%) JUnit
7 5 (2.43%) Mockito
8 4 (1.94%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
General
1 80 (38.83%) Finance
2 60 (29.13%) Banking
3 55 (26.70%) Social Skills
4 36 (17.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.34%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.85%) Retail
7 8 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Spanish Language
11 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.46%) Military
11 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.97%) Back Office
12 2 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.97%) Legal
12 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.49%) Front Office
13 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (22.33%) Developer
2 28 (13.59%) Architect
3 22 (10.68%) Lead
4 19 (9.22%) Senior
5 15 (7.28%) Analyst
6 13 (6.31%) Java Developer
7 11 (5.34%) Applications Support
7 11 (5.34%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.85%) Applications Manager
8 10 (4.85%) Applications Support Manager
8 10 (4.85%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.85%) Support Manager
9 8 (3.88%) Process Analyst
10 7 (3.40%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.40%) Consultant
10 7 (3.40%) Designer
10 7 (3.40%) Integration Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Lead Developer
10 7 (3.40%) Middleware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.48%) Kafka
2 31 (15.05%) Middleware
3 26 (12.62%) XML
4 25 (12.14%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.68%) REST
6 21 (10.19%) Spring
7 17 (8.25%) JSON
8 15 (7.28%) .NET
9 14 (6.80%) HTML
10 13 (6.31%) SOAP
11 11 (5.34%) Web Services
12 7 (3.40%) CSS
12 7 (3.40%) Jakarta EE
13 6 (2.91%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.91%) React
13 6 (2.91%) RESTful
14 5 (2.43%) IBM Integration Bus
14 5 (2.43%) JPA
14 5 (2.43%) Redux
14 5 (2.43%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.56%) Mainframe
2 12 (5.83%) Data Structures
2 12 (5.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 10 (4.85%) AS400
3 10 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.85%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.40%) iSeries
5 7 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.43%) Replication
8 4 (1.94%) Clustering
8 4 (1.94%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.46%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.65%) Linux
2 20 (9.71%) zOS
3 17 (8.25%) Unix
4 12 (5.83%) Windows
5 10 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (2.91%) Solaris
6 6 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (2.43%) Windows Server
8 4 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.97%) MVS
11 1 (0.49%) AIX
11 1 (0.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (22.33%) Agile
2 44 (21.36%) CI/CD
2 44 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 42 (20.39%) Migration
4 41 (19.90%) DevOps
5 32 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (14.56%) Test Automation
8 24 (11.65%) Roadmaps
8 24 (11.65%) Scrum
9 21 (10.19%) Root Cause Analysis
10 20 (9.71%) ITIL
10 20 (9.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (9.22%) Containerisation
11 19 (9.22%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (8.74%) ETL
12 18 (8.74%) Microservices
12 18 (8.74%) Validation
13 17 (8.25%) Event-Driven
14 16 (7.77%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 57 (27.67%) Java
2 51 (24.76%) SQL
3 32 (15.53%) Python
4 29 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 15 (7.28%) PL/SQL
6 12 (5.83%) C#
7 7 (3.40%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.91%) C++
9 5 (2.43%) COBOL
9 5 (2.43%) JCL
9 5 (2.43%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.46%) C
10 3 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.46%) REXX
10 3 (1.46%) RPG
10 3 (1.46%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.97%) Bash
11 2 (0.97%) Korn
11 2 (0.97%) Perl
11 2 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 45 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.93%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Degree
4 11 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.46%) ISEB
5 3 (1.46%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.46%) PMP
6 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.97%) CISA
6 2 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.85%) ISO 20022
3 8 (3.88%) ISO 15022
4 5 (2.43%) QA
5 3 (1.46%) SEPA
6 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.97%) GDPR
6 2 (0.97%) NIST
7 1 (0.49%) GAAP
7 1 (0.49%) IFRS
7 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
7 1 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.49%) SLA
7 1 (0.49%) TARGET2
System Software
1 26 (12.62%) Docker
2 7 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.43%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (1.94%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.46%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (1.46%) RACF
5 3 (1.46%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.49%) Firmware
6 1 (0.49%) oVirt
6 1 (0.49%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.49%) RHEV
6 1 (0.49%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.40%) Ansible
3 6 (2.91%) Grafana
4 5 (2.43%) HP Fortify
5 4 (1.94%) Control-M
5 4 (1.94%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (1.46%) Avamar
6 3 (1.46%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.46%) Tivoli
7 2 (0.97%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.97%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.49%) Kibana
8 1 (0.49%) logstash
8 1 (0.49%) Netcool
8 1 (0.49%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.49%) OMEGAMON
8 1 (0.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 53 (25.73%) Oracle
2 21 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.77%) SAP
4 12 (5.83%) Splunk
5 10 (4.85%) Google
6 9 (4.37%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.40%) Databricks
7 7 (3.40%) New Relic
7 7 (3.40%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.40%) VMware
8 6 (2.91%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.43%) Broadcom
9 5 (2.43%) Temenos
9 5 (2.43%) UiPath
9 5 (2.43%) Veracode
10 4 (1.94%) Cisco
10 4 (1.94%) EMC
10 4 (1.94%) Foundry
10 4 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.94%) Veeam