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 18 March 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
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 233 222
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 +78
Contract jobs citing IBM 138 121 179
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 0.94% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 2.10% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 77 129
10th Percentile £350 £395 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £620
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -15.32% +16.98%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £750
90th Percentile £698 £775 £800
England median daily rate £455 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% +4.76%
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 £24.66 £70.00
% change year-on-year +236.58% -64.77% +64.01%

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 7,279 5,756 7,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.31% 44.91% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,787 3,716 4,989
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.37% -3.10%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £752 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 84 141
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.26 £13.42
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.50 £31.42 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% +25.69% -2.76%
75th Percentile £41.75 £56.19 £41.25
90th Percentile £65.33 £79.78 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.76% +21.60% -28.57%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 -7 18 £518 -5.91% 5
East London -3 2 £416 +4.00% 2
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 17 (12.32%) WebSphere
2 11 (7.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (6.52%) Confluence
3 9 (6.52%) WebLogic
4 5 (3.62%) MQSeries
4 5 (3.62%) nginx
5 4 (2.90%) Tomcat
6 3 (2.17%) CICS
6 3 (2.17%) JBoss
6 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.72%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.07%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (3.62%) Temenos T24
3 4 (2.90%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (2.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 3 (2.17%) Maximo
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.72%) Algo Collateral
6 1 (0.72%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.72%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.72%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.72%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.72%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.72%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 34 (24.64%) AWS
2 22 (15.94%) Azure
3 7 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (5.07%) Azure API Management
4 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (4.35%) GCP
4 6 (4.35%) Serverless
5 5 (3.62%) IBM Watson
6 4 (2.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.17%) GitHub
8 2 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.45%) IaaS
8 2 (1.45%) MinIO
8 2 (1.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.45%) PaaS
8 2 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) HTTP
2 6 (4.35%) APPN
2 6 (4.35%) SNA
2 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.90%) SAN
4 2 (1.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.72%) DNS
5 1 (0.72%) DWDM
5 1 (0.72%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.72%) Firewall
5 1 (0.72%) LAN
5 1 (0.72%) MPLS
5 1 (0.72%) Multicast
5 1 (0.72%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.72%) Network Security
5 1 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.72%) VPN
5 1 (0.72%) VSAN
5 1 (0.72%) WAN
5 1 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) DB2
2 14 (10.14%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.25%) DataStage
3 10 (7.25%) Oracle Database
4 9 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.62%) Big Data
6 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.62%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (2.90%) Oracle Database 10g
7 4 (2.90%) Power BI
8 3 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.17%) Tableau
9 2 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.45%) GIS
9 2 (1.45%) Metadata
9 2 (1.45%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.42%) JIRA
2 10 (7.25%) GitLab
3 9 (6.52%) Ant
4 6 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.62%) JUnit
5 5 (3.62%) SoapUI
6 4 (2.90%) Git
6 4 (2.90%) Liquibase
6 4 (2.90%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.45%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.72%) ERwin
8 1 (0.72%) git-flow
8 1 (0.72%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.72%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.72%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.72%) XPEDITER
General
1 38 (27.54%) Finance
2 36 (26.09%) Banking
3 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
4 16 (11.59%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.35%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Front Office
10 1 (0.72%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.72%) International Banking
10 1 (0.72%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
10 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (25.36%) Developer
2 27 (19.57%) Architect
3 10 (7.25%) Data Engineer
4 9 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (5.80%) Lead
5 8 (5.80%) Senior
6 7 (5.07%) Applications Architect
7 6 (4.35%) Data Centre Engineer
7 6 (4.35%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (3.62%) Analyst
8 5 (3.62%) AWS Architect
8 5 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Integration Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Network Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Break Fix Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (2.90%) Data Scientist
9 4 (2.90%) Project Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Server Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) T24 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.67%) XML
2 19 (13.77%) Kafka
3 15 (10.87%) Middleware
3 15 (10.87%) SOAP
4 12 (8.70%) XSLT
5 11 (7.97%) JMS
6 10 (7.25%) Web Services
7 8 (5.80%) J2EE
7 8 (5.80%) WSDL
8 7 (5.07%) OC4J
8 7 (5.07%) REST
8 7 (5.07%) TIBCO EMS
8 7 (5.07%) XSD
9 6 (4.35%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (4.35%) JSON
9 6 (4.35%) Spring
9 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.35%) WebSphere MQ
10 4 (2.90%) OAuth
11 3 (2.17%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.84%) Mainframe
2 11 (7.97%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (7.25%) Data Centre
3 10 (7.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 9 (6.52%) DataPower
5 4 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.90%) AS400
5 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.17%) Derivative
6 3 (2.17%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.17%) VSAM
7 2 (1.45%) CMDB
7 2 (1.45%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.45%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.22%) Linux
2 20 (14.49%) Windows
3 16 (11.59%) zOS
4 9 (6.52%) Unix
5 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.62%) AIX
6 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
7 4 (2.90%) Solaris
7 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.72%) Android
9 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.39%) Agile
2 22 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (12.32%) Migration
4 16 (11.59%) DevOps
4 16 (11.59%) ETL
4 16 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 14 (10.14%) Data Modelling
7 13 (9.42%) SOA
8 11 (7.97%) AI
8 11 (7.97%) Analytics
8 11 (7.97%) Scrum
9 9 (6.52%) Break/Fix
9 9 (6.52%) UML
10 8 (5.80%) Design Patterns
10 8 (5.80%) Generative AI
10 8 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (5.80%) Microservices
10 8 (5.80%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (5.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.81%) SQL
2 24 (17.39%) Java
3 22 (15.94%) Python
4 15 (10.87%) PL/SQL
5 8 (5.80%) XPath
6 6 (4.35%) Korn
6 6 (4.35%) Perl
6 6 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.17%) Bash
8 3 (2.17%) COBOL
8 3 (2.17%) JCL
8 3 (2.17%) RPG
9 2 (1.45%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.45%) Bicep
9 2 (1.45%) C#
9 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.45%) REXX
9 2 (1.45%) Scala
10 1 (0.72%) Jython
Qualifications
1 35 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.62%) Degree
4 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.45%) CCSP
5 2 (1.45%) CEH
5 2 (1.45%) CISM
5 2 (1.45%) CISMP
5 2 (1.45%) CISSP
5 2 (1.45%) CSSLP
5 2 (1.45%) GCIH
5 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.72%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) SLA
2 8 (5.80%) QA
3 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.62%) SEPA
5 4 (2.90%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.17%) GRC
7 2 (1.45%) ISO 15022
7 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.45%) NIST
7 2 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.72%) Basel III
8 1 (0.72%) GAAP
8 1 (0.72%) GDPR
8 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.72%) IFRS
8 1 (0.72%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (6.52%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.45%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (1.45%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.45%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.72%) Firmware
4 1 (0.72%) RACF
4 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 12 (8.70%) Terraform
2 7 (5.07%) Ansible
2 7 (5.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.07%) TIBCO Hawk
3 6 (4.35%) Tivoli NetView
4 4 (2.90%) Control-M
5 3 (2.17%) Grafana
6 2 (1.45%) CA Endevor
6 2 (1.45%) EMC NetWorker
6 2 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (1.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.72%) Argo
7 1 (0.72%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.72%) Podman
7 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.72%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 32 (23.19%) Oracle
2 13 (9.42%) SAP
3 9 (6.52%) Dell
3 9 (6.52%) HP
4 8 (5.80%) TIBCO
5 7 (5.07%) BEA
5 7 (5.07%) Informatica
6 6 (4.35%) Google
6 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.90%) Cisco
7 4 (2.90%) Cognos
7 4 (2.90%) Databricks
7 4 (2.90%) Microsoft
7 4 (2.90%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.90%) Temenos
7 4 (2.90%) VMware
8 3 (2.17%) BMC
8 3 (2.17%) Broadcom
8 3 (2.17%) Sage
8 3 (2.17%) Veeam