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 12 June 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 294 232 250
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +43
Contract jobs citing IBM 129 125 156
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.02% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 2.25% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 92 104
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £409 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £709
90th Percentile £712 £771 £826
England median daily rate £474 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.25% -4.76% +2.69%
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 £25.08 £70.00
% change year-on-year +205.08% -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 7,798 5,551 7,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.41% 45.32% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,128 3,585 5,003
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -1.94% -0.04% -2.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 101 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.42 £22.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -11.85%
75th Percentile £52.81 £43.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £27.17 £23.80
% change year-on-year +25.11% +14.15% -37.37%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 £471 -14.41% 3
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 14 (10.85%) WebSphere
2 12 (9.30%) Confluence
3 11 (8.53%) nginx
4 10 (7.75%) Tomcat
5 6 (4.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (4.65%) WebLogic
6 5 (3.88%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.33%) Camunda
7 3 (2.33%) CICS
8 2 (1.55%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.65%) Temenos T24
2 4 (3.10%) Maximo
3 2 (1.55%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.78%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.78%) SAP AFS
4 1 (0.78%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.16%) AWS
2 22 (17.05%) Azure
3 6 (4.65%) GitHub
4 5 (3.88%) GCP
5 4 (3.10%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (2.33%) MinIO
6 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.55%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.55%) IaaS
7 2 (1.55%) IBM Blueworks
7 2 (1.55%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.55%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.55%) OCI
7 2 (1.55%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.55%) PaaS
7 2 (1.55%) SaaS
8 1 (0.78%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.43%) HTTP
2 5 (3.88%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.10%) APPN
3 4 (3.10%) SNA
4 2 (1.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (1.55%) Firewall
4 2 (1.55%) LAN
4 2 (1.55%) SAN
5 1 (0.78%) DNS
5 1 (0.78%) DSL
5 1 (0.78%) DWDM
5 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.78%) MPLS
5 1 (0.78%) Multicast
5 1 (0.78%) Network Security
5 1 (0.78%) VPN
5 1 (0.78%) WAN
5 1 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.85%) Db2
2 10 (7.75%) DataStage
2 10 (7.75%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.43%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.65%) Metadata
4 6 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.88%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.10%) Big Data
6 4 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.10%) GIS
6 4 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.33%) Power BI
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.55%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) JIRA
2 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.98%) Git
4 5 (3.88%) Ant
4 5 (3.88%) GitLab
4 5 (3.88%) Liquibase
5 4 (3.10%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (2.33%) Eclipse
6 3 (2.33%) JMeter
6 3 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.55%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.55%) Gradle
7 2 (1.55%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.55%) JUnit
7 2 (1.55%) Maven
7 2 (1.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.78%) XPEDITER
General
1 31 (24.03%) Banking
2 30 (23.26%) Finance
3 22 (17.05%) Social Skills
4 19 (14.73%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.33%) Retail
7 2 (1.55%) Back Office
7 2 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Legal
7 2 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Front Office
8 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.78%) Military
8 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (21.71%) Architect
2 21 (16.28%) Developer
3 13 (10.08%) Lead
4 11 (8.53%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.20%) Applications Architect
5 8 (6.20%) Senior
6 6 (4.65%) AWS Architect
6 6 (4.65%) Data Centre Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.65%) T24 Developer
7 5 (3.88%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (3.88%) Integration Architect
7 5 (3.88%) Integration Engineer
7 5 (3.88%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.88%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.10%) Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (3.10%) Lead Developer
8 4 (3.10%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.08%) Kafka
1 13 (10.08%) Middleware
1 13 (10.08%) Spring
1 13 (10.08%) Spring Boot
2 12 (9.30%) REST
3 10 (7.75%) XML
4 7 (5.43%) JSON
5 6 (4.65%) J2EE
6 5 (3.88%) JMS
6 5 (3.88%) Web Services
6 5 (3.88%) WebSphere MQ
6 5 (3.88%) XSLT
7 4 (3.10%) EJB
7 4 (3.10%) RESTful
7 4 (3.10%) SOAP
8 3 (2.33%) Java EE
8 3 (2.33%) OpenLayers
8 3 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (2.33%) React
8 3 (2.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.50%) Mainframe
2 12 (9.30%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 9 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.20%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (4.65%) Cloud Native
6 6 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.88%) Data Structures
8 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.33%) Clustering
9 3 (2.33%) DataPower
9 3 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.33%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.33%) VSAM
10 2 (1.55%) EMC Centera
10 2 (1.55%) PACS
10 2 (1.55%) Symmetrix
10 2 (1.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.50%) Linux
2 17 (13.18%) Windows
3 11 (8.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (7.75%) zOS
5 9 (6.98%) Solaris
5 9 (6.98%) Windows Server
5 9 (6.98%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (3.88%) Unix
8 4 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.78%) Android
9 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.93%) DevOps
2 25 (19.38%) CI/CD
3 24 (18.60%) Migration
4 23 (17.83%) Agile
4 23 (17.83%) ETL
5 18 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (13.18%) Scrum
7 14 (10.85%) Microservices
8 13 (10.08%) Data Modelling
8 13 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (9.30%) AI
10 11 (8.53%) Roadmaps
10 11 (8.53%) Test Automation
11 10 (7.75%) Containerisation
12 9 (6.98%) Break/Fix
12 9 (6.98%) Master Data Management
12 9 (6.98%) Observability
13 8 (6.20%) Analytics
13 8 (6.20%) Data Migration
13 8 (6.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (25.58%) SQL
2 25 (19.38%) Java
3 18 (13.95%) Python
4 14 (10.85%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.88%) C#
7 4 (3.10%) Bash
8 3 (2.33%) Bicep
8 3 (2.33%) COBOL
8 3 (2.33%) XPath
9 2 (1.55%) C++
9 2 (1.55%) JCL
9 2 (1.55%) Korn
9 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.78%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.78%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.78%) Groovy
10 1 (0.78%) Scala
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.10%) Degree
4 2 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (1.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.55%) CCSP
4 2 (1.55%) CEH
4 2 (1.55%) CISA
4 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.55%) CISM
4 2 (1.55%) CISMP
4 2 (1.55%) CISSP
4 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.55%) CSSLP
4 2 (1.55%) GCIH
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.43%) SLA
3 5 (3.88%) ISO 20022
3 5 (3.88%) QA
4 4 (3.10%) SEPA
5 3 (2.33%) GDPR
5 3 (2.33%) ISO 15022
6 2 (1.55%) GRC
6 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.78%) Basel III
7 1 (0.78%) GAAP
7 1 (0.78%) IFRS
7 1 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.78%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (15.50%) Docker
2 6 (4.65%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.88%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (1.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 2 (1.55%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 2 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.78%) Firmware
5 1 (0.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.78%) RACF
5 1 (0.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.53%) Terraform
3 10 (7.75%) Ansible
4 5 (3.88%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (3.10%) Tivoli NetView
6 3 (2.33%) Grafana
7 2 (1.55%) Avamar
7 2 (1.55%) CA Endevor
7 2 (1.55%) Control-M
7 2 (1.55%) EMC VPLEX
7 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.55%) TIBCO Hawk
7 2 (1.55%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.78%) Argo
8 1 (0.78%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.78%) Kibana
8 1 (0.78%) logstash
8 1 (0.78%) Podman
8 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (25.58%) Oracle
2 11 (8.53%) SAP
3 10 (7.75%) HP
4 9 (6.98%) Dell
5 8 (6.20%) Red Hat
6 7 (5.43%) VMware
7 6 (4.65%) Informatica
7 6 (4.65%) Microsoft
7 6 (4.65%) Splunk
8 5 (3.88%) Databricks
8 5 (3.88%) Temenos
9 4 (3.10%) Brocade
9 4 (3.10%) Cisco
10 3 (2.33%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.33%) Google
10 3 (2.33%) NetApp
10 3 (2.33%) New Relic
10 3 (2.33%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.55%) Broadcom
11 2 (1.55%) Palantir