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 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 248 237
Rank change year-on-year -20 -11 +31
Contract jobs citing IBM 179 126 153
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.93% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 2.09% 2.03% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 94 96
10th Percentile £350 £397 £361
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £595 £539
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +10.39% +2.67%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £763
England median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £18.61 - -
25th Percentile £19.41 - -
Median hourly rate £19.85 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.07% - -
75th Percentile £33.33 - -
90th Percentile £57.58 - -
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 8,576 6,219 6,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.47% 46.01% 43.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,584 4,045 4,736
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -1.18% -3.41%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 126 88
10th Percentile £18.28 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.59 £22.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.56 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -22 21 £475 -13.64% 9
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 19 (10.61%) Confluence
2 15 (8.38%) SharePoint
2 15 (8.38%) WebSphere
3 10 (5.59%) nginx
4 9 (5.03%) Tomcat
5 8 (4.47%) CICS
6 6 (3.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (2.79%) JBoss
8 4 (2.23%) Camunda
8 4 (2.23%) WebLogic
9 2 (1.12%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.56%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.56%) HCL Notes
10 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 36 (20.11%) Azure
2 33 (18.44%) AWS
3 10 (5.59%) GCP
4 8 (4.47%) GitHub
5 7 (3.91%) IBM Blueworks
6 6 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.23%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.23%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.12%) Apigee
9 2 (1.12%) Azure API Management
9 2 (1.12%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.12%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.12%) Kong
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (1.12%) MinIO
9 2 (1.12%) OneDrive
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%) DNS
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%) OSPF
6 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.82%) Oracle Database
2 12 (6.70%) Db2
3 9 (5.03%) DataStage
3 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.47%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.91%) Big Data
5 7 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (3.91%) Metadata
6 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.35%) Tableau
7 4 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.68%) GIS
9 2 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.12%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) MySQL
10 1 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 15 (8.38%) Jenkins
1 15 (8.38%) JIRA
2 11 (6.15%) 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%) PowerDesigner
6 6 (3.35%) SoapUI
7 5 (2.79%) GitLab
7 5 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (2.23%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.23%) Gradle
8 4 (2.23%) Selenium
9 3 (1.68%) Maven
9 3 (1.68%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.12%) Gatling
10 2 (1.12%) Liquibase
General
1 63 (35.20%) Finance
2 48 (26.82%) Banking
3 46 (25.70%) Social Skills
4 36 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.91%) 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%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Front Office
10 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
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 32 (17.88%) Architect
3 18 (10.06%) Lead
4 15 (8.38%) Senior
5 12 (6.70%) Analyst
6 9 (5.03%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.47%) Applications Support
7 8 (4.47%) Data Engineer
7 8 (4.47%) Senior Developer
8 7 (3.91%) Applications Manager
8 7 (3.91%) Applications Support Manager
8 7 (3.91%) Designer
8 7 (3.91%) Middleware Engineer
8 7 (3.91%) Process Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) Support Manager
8 7 (3.91%) T24 Developer
9 6 (3.35%) Applications Architect
9 6 (3.35%) CICS Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.35%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.85%) Kafka
2 22 (12.29%) XML
3 21 (11.73%) Middleware
4 17 (9.50%) REST
5 15 (8.38%) Spring Boot
6 12 (6.70%) JSON
6 12 (6.70%) Spring
7 11 (6.15%) .NET
7 11 (6.15%) Web Services
8 10 (5.59%) SOAP
9 7 (3.91%) HTML
9 7 (3.91%) Jakarta EE
10 6 (3.35%) RESTful
11 5 (2.79%) XSLT
12 4 (2.23%) .NET Core
12 4 (2.23%) IBM Integration Bus
12 4 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
12 4 (2.23%) WebSphere MQ
12 4 (2.23%) XBRL
13 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET MVC 5
Miscellaneous
1 23 (12.85%) Mainframe
2 15 (8.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 12 (6.70%) Data Centre
4 10 (5.59%) AS400
5 9 (5.03%) Data Structures
5 9 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (4.47%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
7 7 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (3.91%) iSeries
8 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.23%) Clustering
10 4 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.68%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (1.68%) EMC VNX
11 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (12.29%) Linux
2 15 (8.38%) Windows
3 14 (7.82%) Unix
3 14 (7.82%) zOS
4 11 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (3.91%) Solaris
5 7 (3.91%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (3.35%) Windows Server
7 5 (2.79%) 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 42 (23.46%) Agile
2 36 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (19.55%) DevOps
3 35 (19.55%) Migration
4 32 (17.88%) CI/CD
5 28 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (13.97%) Scrum
7 23 (12.85%) Roadmaps
7 23 (12.85%) Test Automation
8 21 (11.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (10.06%) ETL
10 15 (8.38%) Microservices
10 15 (8.38%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (7.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (7.26%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.26%) ITIL
12 13 (7.26%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (6.70%) Validation
14 11 (6.15%) AI
14 11 (6.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.91%) Java
1 41 (22.91%) SQL
2 24 (13.41%) Python
3 20 (11.17%) JavaScript
4 14 (7.82%) PL/SQL
5 9 (5.03%) C#
6 5 (2.79%) C++
7 4 (2.23%) COBOL
8 3 (1.68%) Bash
8 3 (1.68%) RPG
8 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.68%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.12%) Bicep
9 2 (1.12%) C
9 2 (1.12%) Korn
9 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) CQL
10 1 (0.56%) JCL
10 1 (0.56%) Perl
10 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 6 (3.35%) 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
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
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%) TARGET2
6 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (11.73%) 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 7 (3.91%) Terraform
3 6 (3.35%) Ansible
4 5 (2.79%) Grafana
4 5 (2.79%) HP Fortify
5 4 (2.23%) Control-M
5 4 (2.23%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (2.23%) Tivoli NetView
6 3 (1.68%) Avamar
6 3 (1.68%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.56%) Kibana
8 1 (0.56%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 47 (26.26%) Oracle
2 15 (8.38%) SAP
3 12 (6.70%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.59%) Splunk
5 8 (4.47%) Temenos
6 7 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 7 (3.91%) Red Hat
6 7 (3.91%) VMware
7 6 (3.35%) Databricks
7 6 (3.35%) Google
7 6 (3.35%) New Relic
8 5 (2.79%) Cisco
8 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.23%) HP
9 4 (2.23%) NetApp
9 4 (2.23%) Veeam
10 3 (1.68%) 3PAR
10 3 (1.68%) Brocade
10 3 (1.68%) Dell
10 3 (1.68%) EMC