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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 247 243
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing IBM 179 119 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.89% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 2.09% 1.93% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 88 94
10th Percentile £350 £403 £361
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +17.07% -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £750
England median daily rate £500 £550 £489
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.47% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% - -
75th Percentile £46.80 - -
90th Percentile £62.97 - -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £25.15 £70.00
% change year-on-year +249.90% -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 8,562 6,178 7,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.65% 46.09% 43.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,582 4,002 4,720
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.68%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 127 87
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.95 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61.50 £39.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £82.00 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in London

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 August 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 -16 21 £508 -7.73% 11
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 18 (10.06%) Confluence
2 15 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.38%) WebSphere
3 8 (4.47%) CICS
3 8 (4.47%) nginx
3 8 (4.47%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.79%) JBoss
4 5 (2.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (2.23%) Camunda
5 4 (2.23%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.12%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.56%) HCL Domino
7 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.03%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.68%) Maximo
3 2 (1.12%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (1.12%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.56%) Actimize
4 1 (0.56%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.56%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.56%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.56%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.56%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.79%) Azure
2 33 (18.44%) AWS
3 10 (5.59%) GCP
4 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (3.91%) GitHub
4 7 (3.91%) IBM Blueworks
5 4 (2.23%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.68%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.12%) Apigee
7 2 (1.12%) Azure API Management
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.12%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (1.12%) Kong
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.12%) MinIO
7 2 (1.12%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.91%) HTTP
2 5 (2.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.68%) APPN
4 3 (1.68%) Firewall
4 3 (1.68%) SNA
5 2 (1.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.56%) BGP
6 1 (0.56%) Broadband
6 1 (0.56%) DMZ
6 1 (0.56%) DSL
6 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.56%) FTP
6 1 (0.56%) Internet
6 1 (0.56%) IPv4
6 1 (0.56%) LAN
6 1 (0.56%) Multicast
6 1 (0.56%) Network Security
6 1 (0.56%) OSPF
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.82%) Oracle Database
2 12 (6.70%) Db2
3 11 (6.15%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.59%) DataStage
5 8 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.47%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.91%) Metadata
7 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 6 (3.35%) Tableau
8 5 (2.79%) Big Data
9 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.68%) GIS
9 3 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.12%) IBM InfoSphere
10 2 (1.12%) Power BI
10 2 (1.12%) Redis
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.56%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 15 (8.38%) Jenkins
1 15 (8.38%) JIRA
2 12 (6.70%) Git
3 10 (5.59%) JMeter
4 8 (4.47%) SonarQube
5 7 (3.91%) LoadRunner
6 6 (3.35%) eggPlant
6 6 (3.35%) Postman
6 6 (3.35%) SoapUI
7 5 (2.79%) Selenium
7 5 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.23%) GitLab
8 4 (2.23%) Gradle
8 4 (2.23%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (1.68%) Maven
9 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.68%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.12%) Mockito
General
1 66 (36.87%) Finance
2 50 (27.93%) Banking
3 47 (26.26%) Social Skills
4 36 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.12%) Back Office
9 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.56%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (21.23%) Developer
2 33 (18.44%) Architect
3 18 (10.06%) Lead
4 14 (7.82%) Senior
5 12 (6.70%) Analyst
6 10 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.03%) Applications Support
8 8 (4.47%) Applications Manager
8 8 (4.47%) Applications Support Manager
8 8 (4.47%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.47%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.47%) Support Manager
9 7 (3.91%) Designer
9 7 (3.91%) Middleware Engineer
9 7 (3.91%) Process Analyst
9 7 (3.91%) T24 Developer
10 6 (3.35%) CICS Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.35%) Java Developer
11 5 (2.79%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) Kafka
2 23 (12.85%) XML
3 21 (11.73%) Middleware
4 17 (9.50%) REST
5 16 (8.94%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.26%) Spring
7 12 (6.70%) JSON
8 11 (6.15%) .NET
8 11 (6.15%) Web Services
9 10 (5.59%) SOAP
10 8 (4.47%) HTML
11 7 (3.91%) Jakarta EE
12 6 (3.35%) RESTful
12 6 (3.35%) Terraform
13 5 (2.79%) XSLT
14 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
14 4 (2.23%) AngularJS
14 4 (2.23%) IBM Integration Bus
14 4 (2.23%) WebSphere MQ
14 4 (2.23%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Mainframe
2 16 (8.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 10 (5.59%) AS400
3 10 (5.59%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.03%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (5.03%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.47%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (3.91%) iSeries
7 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.79%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.79%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.23%) Clustering
9 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.68%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (1.68%) EMC VNX
10 3 (1.68%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.61%) Linux
2 14 (7.82%) Windows
2 14 (7.82%) zOS
3 13 (7.26%) Unix
4 9 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.35%) Solaris
5 6 (3.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (2.79%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.56%) AIX
9 1 (0.56%) MVS
9 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (22.35%) Agile
2 38 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (19.55%) CI/CD
3 35 (19.55%) DevOps
4 34 (18.99%) Migration
5 28 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (13.41%) Roadmaps
6 24 (13.41%) Scrum
6 24 (13.41%) Test Automation
7 22 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (10.06%) ETL
9 16 (8.94%) Root Cause Analysis
10 14 (7.82%) ITIL
10 14 (7.82%) Observability
10 14 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (7.26%) Microservices
11 13 (7.26%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (7.26%) Validation
12 12 (6.70%) Containerisation
12 12 (6.70%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (24.02%) Java
2 42 (23.46%) SQL
3 26 (14.53%) Python
4 20 (11.17%) JavaScript
5 14 (7.82%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.47%) C#
7 5 (2.79%) C++
8 4 (2.23%) COBOL
9 3 (1.68%) Bash
9 3 (1.68%) RPG
9 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.68%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.12%) Bicep
10 2 (1.12%) C
10 2 (1.12%) Korn
10 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.12%) R
10 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.56%) CQL
11 1 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (22.91%) Security Cleared
2 38 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) Degree
4 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.68%) ISEB
5 3 (1.68%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CCSP
6 2 (1.12%) CEH
6 2 (1.12%) CISA
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CISM
6 2 (1.12%) CISMP
6 2 (1.12%) CISSP
6 2 (1.12%) CSSLP
6 2 (1.12%) GCIH
6 2 (1.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.91%) ISO 20022
2 7 (3.91%) QA
3 5 (2.79%) ISO 15022
4 4 (2.23%) SEPA
5 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 2 (1.12%) GRC
5 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) GAAP
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) TARGET2
System Software
1 20 (11.17%) Docker
2 7 (3.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (2.23%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (1.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 3 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.56%) oVirt
6 1 (0.56%) PowerHA
6 1 (0.56%) RACF
6 1 (0.56%) RHEV
6 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.79%) Ansible
2 5 (2.79%) Grafana
2 5 (2.79%) HP Fortify
3 4 (2.23%) Control-M
3 4 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (2.23%) Tivoli NetView
4 3 (1.68%) Avamar
4 3 (1.68%) EMC VPLEX
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.56%) Kibana
6 1 (0.56%) logstash
6 1 (0.56%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 47 (26.26%) Oracle
2 15 (8.38%) SAP
3 13 (7.26%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.03%) Splunk
5 8 (4.47%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.47%) Temenos
6 7 (3.91%) VMware
7 6 (3.35%) Databricks
7 6 (3.35%) Google
7 6 (3.35%) New Relic
7 6 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.79%) Cisco
8 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.23%) NetApp
9 4 (2.23%) Veeam
10 3 (1.68%) 3PAR
10 3 (1.68%) Brocade
10 3 (1.68%) EMC
10 3 (1.68%) HP
10 3 (1.68%) jBASE