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 1 July 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
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 223 252
Rank change year-on-year -53 +29 +30
Contract jobs citing IBM 150 131 150
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.78% 1.02% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 1.89% 2.24% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 95 101
10th Percentile £350 £397 £367
25th Percentile £416 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £700
90th Percentile £708 £760 £838
England median daily rate £475 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% -0.98%
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 £83.00 £25.08 £70.00
% change year-on-year +231.01% -64.18% -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 7,953 5,846 7,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.27% 45.35% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,207 3,788 5,008
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.78 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +27.81% +16.70% -21.32%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.04 £24.65
% change year-on-year +34.41% +5.64% -33.38%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -11 21 £475 -13.64% 10
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 16 (10.67%) WebSphere
2 15 (10.00%) Confluence
3 12 (8.00%) nginx
4 11 (7.33%) Tomcat
5 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
6 7 (4.67%) CICS
7 5 (3.33%) JBoss
7 5 (3.33%) WebLogic
8 3 (2.00%) Camunda
9 2 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.67%) HCL Domino
10 1 (0.67%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.67%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.00%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.67%) Maximo
3 2 (1.33%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.67%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.67%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.67%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.67%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.67%) SAP AFS
4 1 (0.67%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.33%) AWS
2 26 (17.33%) Azure
3 6 (4.00%) GitHub
4 5 (3.33%) GCP
5 4 (2.67%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (2.00%) IBM Blueworks
6 3 (2.00%) MinIO
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.33%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.33%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.67%) Serverless
8 1 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.33%) HTTP
2 5 (3.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.67%) APPN
3 4 (2.67%) SNA
4 3 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (2.00%) Firewall
5 2 (1.33%) LAN
6 1 (0.67%) DNS
6 1 (0.67%) DSL
6 1 (0.67%) DWDM
6 1 (0.67%) MPLS
6 1 (0.67%) Multicast
6 1 (0.67%) Network Security
6 1 (0.67%) SSL
6 1 (0.67%) VPN
6 1 (0.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.67%) Db2
2 9 (6.00%) Oracle Database
3 8 (5.33%) DataStage
3 8 (5.33%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (5.33%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.00%) Metadata
6 5 (3.33%) Big Data
6 5 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.67%) GIS
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.33%) Power BI
8 2 (1.33%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (8.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.33%) Git
3 9 (6.00%) JIRA
4 5 (3.33%) Ant
4 5 (3.33%) GitLab
4 5 (3.33%) Liquibase
4 5 (3.33%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.67%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.00%) Gradle
6 3 (2.00%) JMeter
6 3 (2.00%) Maven
6 3 (2.00%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.33%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.33%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.33%) JUnit
7 2 (1.33%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.67%) XPEDITER
General
1 42 (28.00%) Finance
2 37 (24.67%) Banking
3 27 (18.00%) Social Skills
4 21 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Back Office
7 2 (1.33%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Front Office
8 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Military
8 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (21.33%) Architect
2 27 (18.00%) Developer
3 13 (8.67%) Lead
4 9 (6.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (6.00%) Senior
5 8 (5.33%) Applications Architect
6 7 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (4.67%) T24 Developer
7 6 (4.00%) Analyst
7 6 (4.00%) AWS Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Integration Architect
7 6 (4.00%) Middleware Engineer
8 5 (3.33%) Applications Support
8 5 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (3.33%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.33%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.33%) Lead Developer
8 5 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.00%) Middleware
2 16 (10.67%) Spring
2 16 (10.67%) Spring Boot
3 15 (10.00%) REST
4 13 (8.67%) Kafka
5 9 (6.00%) XML
6 8 (5.33%) JSON
7 6 (4.00%) J2EE
7 6 (4.00%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (3.33%) JMS
8 5 (3.33%) RESTful
8 5 (3.33%) Web Services
9 4 (2.67%) EJB
9 4 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (2.67%) SOAP
9 4 (2.67%) XSLT
10 3 (2.00%) .NET
10 3 (2.00%) Java EE
10 3 (2.00%) OpenLayers
10 3 (2.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.00%) Mainframe
2 15 (10.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 12 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 10 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (5.33%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (4.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (4.00%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.67%) AS400
8 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.00%) Clustering
9 3 (2.00%) DataPower
9 3 (2.00%) EMC Centera
9 3 (2.00%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (2.00%) EMC VNX
9 3 (2.00%) IBM XIV
9 3 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.00%) Symmetrix
9 3 (2.00%) Symmetrix DMX
9 3 (2.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.00%) Linux
1 18 (12.00%) Windows
2 14 (9.33%) zOS
3 11 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (6.00%) Solaris
4 9 (6.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (5.33%) Windows Server
6 7 (4.67%) Unix
6 7 (4.67%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.67%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (22.00%) DevOps
2 30 (20.00%) Agile
2 30 (20.00%) Migration
3 28 (18.67%) CI/CD
4 23 (15.33%) Scrum
5 20 (13.33%) ETL
5 20 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (10.67%) Roadmaps
8 15 (10.00%) Microservices
9 12 (8.00%) Test Automation
10 11 (7.33%) AI
10 11 (7.33%) Data Modelling
11 10 (6.67%) Containerisation
11 10 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (6.67%) Software Engineering
11 10 (6.67%) Validation
12 9 (6.00%) Break/Fix
12 9 (6.00%) Master Data Management
12 9 (6.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 35 (23.33%) SQL
2 34 (22.67%) Java
3 17 (11.33%) Python
4 14 (9.33%) PL/SQL
5 8 (5.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.00%) C#
7 5 (3.33%) COBOL
8 4 (2.67%) Bash
8 4 (2.67%) C++
9 3 (2.00%) Bicep
10 2 (1.33%) C
10 2 (1.33%) JCL
10 2 (1.33%) Korn
10 2 (1.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.33%) RPG
10 2 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.67%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.67%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.67%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 38 (25.33%) Security Cleared
2 33 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.00%) Degree
4 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.33%) CCSP
5 2 (1.33%) CEH
5 2 (1.33%) CISA
5 2 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.33%) CISM
5 2 (1.33%) CISMP
5 2 (1.33%) CISSP
5 2 (1.33%) CSSLP
5 2 (1.33%) GCIH
5 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.33%) PMP
6 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.33%) SLA
3 6 (4.00%) ISO 20022
3 6 (4.00%) QA
4 5 (3.33%) SEPA
5 4 (2.67%) ISO 15022
6 3 (2.00%) GDPR
7 2 (1.33%) GRC
7 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.33%) NIST
8 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.67%) GAAP
8 1 (0.67%) IFRS
8 1 (0.67%) PMO
8 1 (0.67%) TARGET2
8 1 (0.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (14.00%) Docker
2 6 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.33%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.67%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.67%) RACF
6 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (7.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.67%) Terraform
3 9 (6.00%) Ansible
4 5 (3.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (2.67%) Tivoli NetView
6 3 (2.00%) Avamar
6 3 (2.00%) EMC VPLEX
6 3 (2.00%) Grafana
7 2 (1.33%) CA Endevor
7 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.33%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.67%) Argo
8 1 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.67%) Kibana
8 1 (0.67%) logstash
8 1 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (25.33%) Oracle
2 11 (7.33%) SAP
3 10 (6.67%) HP
4 9 (6.00%) Dell
5 8 (5.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (5.33%) Temenos
6 7 (4.67%) Splunk
6 7 (4.67%) VMware
7 6 (4.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (3.33%) Cisco
9 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.67%) Google
9 4 (2.67%) Informatica
9 4 (2.67%) NetApp
9 4 (2.67%) New Relic
10 3 (2.00%) 3PAR
10 3 (2.00%) Brocade
10 3 (2.00%) EMC
10 3 (2.00%) jBASE
10 3 (2.00%) Veeam