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 27 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 224 243
Rank change year-on-year -70 +19 +66
Contract jobs citing IBM 126 129 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.07% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 1.64% 2.34% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 94 107
10th Percentile £350 £400 £419
25th Percentile £416 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.29% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £712 £768 £868
England median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +0.48%
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 £76.50 £24.18 £70.00
% change year-on-year +216.38% -65.46% -12.50%

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 7,671 5,520 7,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.92% 45.68% 40.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,065 3,597 4,903
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 98 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +21.49% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.25 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £64.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%

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 27 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 27 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 -24 16 £525 -4.55% 5
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 (10.32%) WebSphere
2 12 (9.52%) Confluence
3 9 (7.14%) nginx
4 8 (6.35%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (3.97%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.97%) WebLogic
7 3 (2.38%) Camunda
7 3 (2.38%) CICS
8 2 (1.59%) JBoss
9 1 (0.79%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.59%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.59%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.59%) Maximo
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) MetaTrader
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.79%) SAP AFS
3 1 (0.79%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.02%) AWS
2 22 (17.46%) Azure
3 6 (4.76%) GitHub
4 5 (3.97%) Amazon S3
4 5 (3.97%) GCP
5 4 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.17%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (2.38%) IBM Watson
6 3 (2.38%) MinIO
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.59%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.59%) IBM Blueworks
7 2 (1.59%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) OCI
7 2 (1.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) HTTP
2 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.17%) APPN
3 4 (3.17%) SNA
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.59%) Firewall
4 2 (1.59%) LAN
4 2 (1.59%) SAN
5 1 (0.79%) DNS
5 1 (0.79%) DSL
5 1 (0.79%) DWDM
5 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.79%) MPLS
5 1 (0.79%) Multicast
5 1 (0.79%) Network Security
5 1 (0.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) WAN
5 1 (0.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.11%) DB2
2 10 (7.94%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.35%) DataStage
4 7 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.97%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.17%) Big Data
7 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.17%) Power BI
8 3 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.38%) GIS
8 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.59%) Metadata
9 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.59%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.73%) JIRA
2 8 (6.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.56%) Git
4 6 (4.76%) Ant
4 6 (4.76%) GitLab
5 5 (3.97%) Liquibase
6 4 (3.17%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (2.38%) JMeter
7 3 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.59%) Eclipse
8 2 (1.59%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.59%) JUnit
8 2 (1.59%) Maven
8 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.79%) ERwin
9 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.79%) XPEDITER
General
1 33 (26.19%) Banking
2 29 (23.02%) Finance
3 19 (15.08%) Public Sector
4 17 (13.49%) Social Skills
5 12 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Retail
7 2 (1.59%) Back Office
7 2 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Legal
7 2 (1.59%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Front Office
8 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (22.22%) Architect
2 18 (14.29%) Developer
3 12 (9.52%) Lead
4 9 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.35%) Applications Architect
6 7 (5.56%) Senior
7 6 (4.76%) AWS Architect
7 6 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.76%) T24 Developer
8 5 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.97%) Integration Architect
8 5 (3.97%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.97%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.17%) Break Fix Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) Server Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.11%) Kafka
1 14 (11.11%) Middleware
2 11 (8.73%) REST
3 10 (7.94%) Spring
3 10 (7.94%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.56%) XML
5 5 (3.97%) J2EE
5 5 (3.97%) JMS
5 5 (3.97%) SOAP
5 5 (3.97%) WebSphere MQ
6 4 (3.17%) EJB
6 4 (3.17%) JSON
6 4 (3.17%) Web Services
7 3 (2.38%) Java EE
7 3 (2.38%) OpenLayers
7 3 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.38%) React
7 3 (2.38%) RESTful
7 3 (2.38%) WSDL
7 3 (2.38%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.25%) Mainframe
2 12 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 7 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.38%) Clustering
7 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.38%) DataPower
7 3 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.38%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.38%) VSAM
8 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.59%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.59%) IBM XIV
8 2 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.29%) Linux
2 17 (13.49%) Windows
3 13 (10.32%) zOS
4 9 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.35%) Solaris
5 8 (6.35%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (3.17%) Unix
7 4 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.79%) AIX
8 1 (0.79%) Android
8 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
1 23 (18.25%) DevOps
2 22 (17.46%) Agile
2 22 (17.46%) Migration
3 20 (15.87%) ETL
4 15 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (11.90%) Scrum
5 14 (11.11%) Microservices
5 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (9.52%) Data Modelling
7 11 (8.73%) AI
7 11 (8.73%) Roadmaps
7 11 (8.73%) Test Automation
8 9 (7.14%) Analytics
8 9 (7.14%) Break/Fix
8 9 (7.14%) Containerisation
8 9 (7.14%) Validation
9 8 (6.35%) Master Data Management
9 8 (6.35%) SOA
10 7 (5.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.60%) SQL
2 22 (17.46%) Java
3 17 (13.49%) Python
4 13 (10.32%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.38%) Bash
6 3 (2.38%) Bicep
6 3 (2.38%) C#
6 3 (2.38%) COBOL
6 3 (2.38%) Korn
6 3 (2.38%) XPath
7 2 (1.59%) JCL
7 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.79%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.79%) Perl
8 1 (0.79%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.79%) REXX
8 1 (0.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 30 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.38%) Degree
4 2 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.59%) CCSP
4 2 (1.59%) CEH
4 2 (1.59%) CISA
4 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.59%) CISM
4 2 (1.59%) CISMP
4 2 (1.59%) CISSP
4 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.59%) CSSLP
4 2 (1.59%) GCIH
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) SLA
2 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.97%) QA
4 4 (3.17%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.17%) SEPA
5 2 (1.59%) GRC
5 2 (1.59%) ISO 15022
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.59%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) Basel III
6 1 (0.79%) GAAP
6 1 (0.79%) GDPR
6 1 (0.79%) IFRS
6 1 (0.79%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.79%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (14.29%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.17%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.79%) Firmware
5 1 (0.79%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.79%) RACF
5 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (8.73%) Kubernetes
1 11 (8.73%) Terraform
2 9 (7.14%) Ansible
3 4 (3.17%) Grafana
3 4 (3.17%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (3.17%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (1.59%) Avamar
4 2 (1.59%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.59%) Control-M
4 2 (1.59%) EMC VPLEX
4 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.59%) TIBCO Hawk
4 2 (1.59%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.79%) Kibana
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
5 1 (0.79%) Podman
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (23.02%) Oracle
2 11 (8.73%) SAP
3 10 (7.94%) HP
4 9 (7.14%) Dell
5 8 (6.35%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.76%) Informatica
6 6 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 6 (4.76%) Temenos
6 6 (4.76%) VMware
7 5 (3.97%) Databricks
7 5 (3.97%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.97%) Splunk
8 4 (3.17%) Brocade
8 4 (3.17%) Cisco
8 4 (3.17%) Google
9 3 (2.38%) NetApp
10 2 (1.59%) BEA
10 2 (1.59%) EMC
10 2 (1.59%) Sage
10 2 (1.59%) TIBCO