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 29 January 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
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 232 200
Rank change year-on-year -44 -32 +96
Contract jobs citing IBM 108 132 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.95% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.58% 2.16% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 75 142
10th Percentile £350 £372 £421
25th Percentile £402 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £606
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -13.40% +15.48%
75th Percentile £628 £644 £750
90th Percentile £700 £708 £799
England median daily rate £471 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.80% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £46.18 £70.00
% change year-on-year +46.17% -34.03% +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 6,818 6,119 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.14% 44.02% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,469 3,773 5,030
10th Percentile £340 £313 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 71 145
10th Percentile £17.64 £21.50 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.35 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% +4.48% +20.00%
75th Percentile £42.87 £59.75 £46.85
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% -0.55%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -8 19 £525 -12.50% 7
East London -1 2 £416 +4.00%
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 12 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 10 (9.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (8.33%) MQSeries
4 7 (6.48%) WebLogic
5 2 (1.85%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.93%) CICS
6 1 (0.93%) JBoss
6 1 (0.93%) nginx
6 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.93%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (4.63%) Maximo
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (2.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.93%) Algo Collateral
6 1 (0.93%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.93%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.93%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.93%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.93%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.93%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.37%) AWS
2 14 (12.96%) Azure
3 7 (6.48%) Azure API Management
4 6 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.56%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) Serverless
5 5 (4.63%) IBM Watson
5 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.85%) IaaS
7 2 (1.85%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.85%) PaaS
7 2 (1.85%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.85%) SaaS
7 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) HTTP
2 4 (3.70%) APPN
2 4 (3.70%) HTTPS
2 4 (3.70%) SAN
2 4 (3.70%) SNA
2 4 (3.70%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.70%) VPN
3 3 (2.78%) LAN
3 3 (2.78%) WAN
4 2 (1.85%) DNS
4 2 (1.85%) Network Security
4 2 (1.85%) SSH
5 1 (0.93%) DWDM
5 1 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) Multicast
5 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.93%) VSAN
5 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.04%) DB2
1 13 (12.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.48%) DataStage
2 7 (6.48%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.63%) Power BI
5 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.70%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (2.78%) Tableau
7 2 (1.85%) Big Data
7 2 (1.85%) Metadata
7 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) JIRA
2 6 (5.56%) GitLab
3 4 (3.70%) Ant
3 4 (3.70%) JUnit
3 4 (3.70%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.93%) ERwin
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.93%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.93%) Toad
General
1 39 (36.11%) Finance
2 38 (35.19%) Banking
3 26 (24.07%) Social Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Private Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.56%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.85%) International Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Front Office
11 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.93%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Police
11 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (12.04%) Architect
3 11 (10.19%) Analyst
4 8 (7.41%) Data Engineer
4 8 (7.41%) Senior
5 7 (6.48%) Lead
6 6 (5.56%) Analyst Developer
6 6 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (5.56%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (4.63%) AS400 Developer
8 4 (3.70%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.70%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) webMethods Developer
9 3 (2.78%) Break Fix Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Data Scientist
9 3 (2.78%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Middleware Developer
9 3 (2.78%) RPG Developer
9 3 (2.78%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.85%) XML
2 17 (15.74%) Kafka
3 14 (12.96%) SOAP
4 13 (12.04%) JMS
5 11 (10.19%) Middleware
5 11 (10.19%) XSLT
6 8 (7.41%) Web Services
7 7 (6.48%) J2EE
7 7 (6.48%) JSON
7 7 (6.48%) OC4J
7 7 (6.48%) REST
7 7 (6.48%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (6.48%) WSDL
7 7 (6.48%) XSD
8 6 (5.56%) IBM Integration Bus
9 4 (3.70%) Spring
9 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.78%) Pandas
10 3 (2.78%) scikit-learn
10 3 (2.78%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Mainframe
2 9 (8.33%) AS400
3 8 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.48%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.56%) DataPower
6 5 (4.63%) iSeries
7 4 (3.70%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.78%) Derivative
9 2 (1.85%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.85%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.85%) Replication
9 2 (1.85%) Tandem
10 1 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.93%) PKI
10 1 (0.93%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.74%) Linux
2 16 (14.81%) Windows
3 11 (10.19%) zOS
4 10 (9.26%) Unix
5 6 (5.56%) AIX
6 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (13.89%) Migration
3 13 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (11.11%) Agile
5 11 (10.19%) Change Control
5 11 (10.19%) Data Modelling
6 10 (9.26%) ETL
6 10 (9.26%) SOA
7 9 (8.33%) UML
8 8 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
8 8 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (6.48%) Analytics
9 7 (6.48%) API Management
9 7 (6.48%) Computer Science
9 7 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (6.48%) Design Patterns
9 7 (6.48%) DevOps
9 7 (6.48%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (6.48%) Resource Management
9 7 (6.48%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 34 (31.48%) SQL
2 25 (23.15%) Java
3 18 (16.67%) Python
4 10 (9.26%) PL/SQL
5 8 (7.41%) RPG
6 7 (6.48%) Shell Script
6 7 (6.48%) XPath
7 6 (5.56%) Korn
7 6 (5.56%) Perl
8 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.85%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.85%) JCL
9 2 (1.85%) Jython
9 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.85%) REXX
9 2 (1.85%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) C#
10 1 (0.93%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 22 (20.37%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.41%) Degree
4 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) CCIE
7 1 (0.93%) CCNP
7 1 (0.93%) CCSM
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PMP
7 1 (0.93%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) QA
2 8 (7.41%) SLA
3 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.78%) Basel III
4 3 (2.78%) SEPA
5 2 (1.85%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.93%) GAAP
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.93%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 2 (1.85%) Docker
1 2 (1.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 2 (1.85%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.93%) Firmware
2 1 (0.93%) RACF
2 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (7.41%) Control-M
2 7 (6.48%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (3.70%) Terraform
3 4 (3.70%) Tivoli NetView
4 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (1.85%) Ansible
5 2 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.93%) Podman
6 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 24 (22.22%) Oracle
2 9 (8.33%) SAP
3 8 (7.41%) TIBCO
4 7 (6.48%) BEA
4 7 (6.48%) Google
5 5 (4.63%) Cisco
5 5 (4.63%) Cognos
5 5 (4.63%) Dell
5 5 (4.63%) HP
5 5 (4.63%) Microsoft
6 4 (3.70%) Databricks
6 4 (3.70%) Informatica
6 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.70%) Software AG
6 4 (3.70%) Veeam
6 4 (3.70%) webMethods
7 3 (2.78%) BMC
7 3 (2.78%) Sage
8 2 (1.85%) EMC
8 2 (1.85%) Isilon