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 19 January 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
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 234 196
Rank change year-on-year -36 -38 +85
Contract jobs citing IBM 107 127 207
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.91% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.62% 2.10% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 72 142
10th Percentile £350 £365 £413
25th Percentile £408 £430 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £606
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -12.78% +12.79%
75th Percentile £638 £646 £747
90th Percentile £700 £704 £788
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.93% +64.85%

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 6,602 6,060 7,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.21% 43.66% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,332 3,748 4,997
10th Percentile £340 £313 £290
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -1.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 67 131
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £14.18
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.52
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.35 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -2.05% +28.00%
75th Percentile £42.35 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £83.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +14.38%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 -3 18 £525 -13.40% 8
East London -4 2 £416 +4.00% 1
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 12 (11.21%) WebSphere
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (8.41%) MQSeries
4 7 (6.54%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.87%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) CICS
6 1 (0.93%) JBoss
6 1 (0.93%) nginx
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.54%) BusinessWorks
1 7 (6.54%) Maximo
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (2.80%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (1.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.93%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.93%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.93%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.93%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.93%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.93%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) AWS
2 15 (14.02%) Azure
3 7 (6.54%) Azure API Management
4 6 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.61%) GCP
4 6 (5.61%) Serverless
5 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
5 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.80%) IBM Watson
6 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.87%) IaaS
7 2 (1.87%) OCI
7 2 (1.87%) PaaS
7 2 (1.87%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) HTTP
2 4 (3.74%) APPN
2 4 (3.74%) HTTPS
2 4 (3.74%) SAN
2 4 (3.74%) SNA
2 4 (3.74%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.87%) DNS
4 2 (1.87%) LAN
4 2 (1.87%) Network Security
4 2 (1.87%) SSH
4 2 (1.87%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.15%) DB2
2 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.54%) DataStage
3 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.61%) Oracle Database
5 5 (4.67%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle Database 10g
6 4 (3.74%) Power BI
7 3 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.80%) Metadata
8 2 (1.87%) Big Data
8 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.87%) Tableau
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.93%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.54%) JIRA
2 6 (5.61%) GitLab
3 4 (3.74%) Ant
3 4 (3.74%) JUnit
3 4 (3.74%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.87%) ERwin
4 2 (1.87%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.93%) Toad
General
1 37 (34.58%) Banking
1 37 (34.58%) Finance
2 29 (27.10%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.48%) Private Banking
4 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.61%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.87%) International Banking
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (33.64%) Developer
2 15 (14.02%) Architect
3 11 (10.28%) Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.48%) Senior
4 8 (7.48%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.61%) Analyst Developer
5 6 (5.61%) Lead
5 6 (5.61%) TIBCO Developer
6 5 (4.67%) AS400 Developer
7 4 (3.74%) Network Architect
7 4 (3.74%) webMethods Developer
8 3 (2.80%) Break Fix Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Middleware Developer
8 3 (2.80%) Network Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) RPG Developer
8 3 (2.80%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
9 2 (1.87%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (27.10%) XML
2 17 (15.89%) Kafka
3 14 (13.08%) SOAP
4 11 (10.28%) JMS
4 11 (10.28%) XSLT
5 9 (8.41%) Middleware
6 8 (7.48%) Web Services
7 7 (6.54%) J2EE
7 7 (6.54%) JSON
7 7 (6.54%) OC4J
7 7 (6.54%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (6.54%) WSDL
7 7 (6.54%) XSD
8 6 (5.61%) IBM Integration Bus
9 5 (4.67%) REST
10 3 (2.80%) EDI
10 3 (2.80%) OAuth
10 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
11 2 (1.87%) Spring
11 2 (1.87%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Mainframe
2 9 (8.41%) AS400
3 8 (7.48%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.54%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.61%) DataPower
6 5 (4.67%) iSeries
7 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.80%) Derivative
9 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.87%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.87%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) Replication
9 2 (1.87%) Tandem
10 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.95%) Windows
2 15 (14.02%) Linux
3 11 (10.28%) zOS
4 10 (9.35%) Unix
5 6 (5.61%) AIX
6 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (14.02%) Migration
3 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (11.21%) Agile
4 12 (11.21%) Data Modelling
5 11 (10.28%) Change Control
6 10 (9.35%) ETL
6 10 (9.35%) SOA
7 9 (8.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (8.41%) UML
8 8 (7.48%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (6.54%) API Management
9 7 (6.54%) Computer Science
9 7 (6.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.54%) Data Protection
9 7 (6.54%) Design Patterns
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (6.54%) Resource Management
9 7 (6.54%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.91%) SQL
2 23 (21.50%) Java
3 16 (14.95%) Python
4 10 (9.35%) PL/SQL
5 8 (7.48%) RPG
6 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.54%) XPath
7 6 (5.61%) Korn
7 6 (5.61%) Perl
8 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.87%) Jython
9 2 (1.87%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.87%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) COBOL
10 1 (0.93%) JCL
10 1 (0.93%) REXX
Qualifications
1 24 (22.43%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.02%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) Degree
4 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) CCIE
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) CCSM
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.41%) QA
2 7 (6.54%) SLA
3 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) Basel III
4 3 (2.80%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.80%) SEPA
5 2 (1.87%) IFRS
5 2 (1.87%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.93%) GAAP
6 1 (0.93%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.93%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.93%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (1.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (0.93%) RACF
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (7.48%) Control-M
2 7 (6.54%) TIBCO Hawk
3 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.74%) Terraform
4 4 (3.74%) Tivoli NetView
5 3 (2.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (1.87%) EMC NetWorker
7 1 (0.93%) Ansible
7 1 (0.93%) Grafana
7 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.93%) Podman
7 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 23 (21.50%) Oracle
2 9 (8.41%) SAP
3 8 (7.48%) TIBCO
4 7 (6.54%) BEA
5 6 (5.61%) Google
5 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.67%) Dell
6 5 (4.67%) HP
7 4 (3.74%) Cisco
7 4 (3.74%) Cognos
7 4 (3.74%) Databricks
7 4 (3.74%) Informatica
7 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.74%) Software AG
7 4 (3.74%) Veeam
7 4 (3.74%) webMethods
8 2 (1.87%) Pure Storage
8 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.87%) Sparx
8 2 (1.87%) Workday