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 19 December 2025, 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 229 200
Rank change year-on-year -44 -29 +92
Contract jobs citing IBM 108 147 225
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.75% 0.98% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 2.21% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 89 145
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £413 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £607 £628 £721
90th Percentile £691 £682 £787
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +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 6,764 6,664 7,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.23% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,404 4,182 5,333
10th Percentile £341 £313 £300
25th Percentile £424 £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 £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 69 108
10th Percentile £17.69 £19.66 £16.96
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -8.80% +47.13%
75th Percentile £41.94 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £66.00 £83.10 £86.33
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -3 20 £525 -12.50% 5
East London -4 2 £416 +4.00% 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 9 (8.33%) MQSeries
1 9 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 6 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (4.63%) WebLogic
4 3 (2.78%) CICS
4 3 (2.78%) Confluence
5 2 (1.85%) SharePoint
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 Excel
1 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Maximo
2 5 (4.63%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (3.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (1.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.93%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.93%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.93%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.93%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP GRC
5 1 (0.93%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.93%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.93%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.93%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
5 1 (0.93%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.30%) AWS
2 15 (13.89%) Azure
3 7 (6.48%) Azure API Management
3 7 (6.48%) GCP
4 6 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.56%) Serverless
5 4 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (2.78%) IBM Watson
6 3 (2.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.85%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.93%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) HTTP
2 4 (3.70%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.78%) SAN
3 3 (2.78%) VPN
4 2 (1.85%) APPN
4 2 (1.85%) DNS
4 2 (1.85%) LAN
4 2 (1.85%) Network Security
4 2 (1.85%) SNA
4 2 (1.85%) SSH
4 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.85%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.93%) SSL
5 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.11%) DB2
2 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
4 5 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.70%) DataStage
5 4 (3.70%) Oracle Database 10g
6 3 (2.78%) Metadata
6 3 (2.78%) Power BI
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.85%) Big Data
7 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.85%) Tableau
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.93%) GIS
8 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.41%) GitLab
2 6 (5.56%) JIRA
3 4 (3.70%) Ant
3 4 (3.70%) JUnit
3 4 (3.70%) SoapUI
4 2 (1.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.85%) ERwin
4 2 (1.85%) Git
4 2 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.85%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.93%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.93%) Toad
5 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (34.26%) Banking
2 36 (33.33%) Finance
3 32 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Private Banking
6 7 (6.48%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.56%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.70%) International Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.93%) Billing
11 1 (0.93%) Front Office
11 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Police
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (13.89%) Architect
3 12 (11.11%) Analyst
4 8 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.56%) Analyst Developer
5 6 (5.56%) Senior
6 5 (4.63%) AS400 Developer
6 5 (4.63%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.63%) TIBCO Developer
7 4 (3.70%) Consultant
7 4 (3.70%) Lead
7 4 (3.70%) Network Architect
7 4 (3.70%) webMethods Developer
8 3 (2.78%) Backup Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.78%) Middleware Developer
8 3 (2.78%) Programmer
8 3 (2.78%) RPG Developer
8 3 (2.78%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (23.15%) XML
2 14 (12.96%) Kafka
3 13 (12.04%) SOAP
4 10 (9.26%) XSLT
5 9 (8.33%) JMS
6 8 (7.41%) JSON
7 7 (6.48%) Middleware
7 7 (6.48%) Web Services
8 6 (5.56%) IBM Integration Bus
8 6 (5.56%) WSDL
9 5 (4.63%) J2EE
9 5 (4.63%) OC4J
9 5 (4.63%) REST
9 5 (4.63%) TIBCO EMS
9 5 (4.63%) XSD
10 4 (3.70%) OAuth
10 4 (3.70%) Spring
10 4 (3.70%) Spring Boot
11 3 (2.78%) EDI
11 3 (2.78%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.59%) Mainframe
2 11 (10.19%) AS400
3 7 (6.48%) DataPower
3 7 (6.48%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.63%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.63%) iSeries
4 5 (4.63%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.63%) Replication
5 4 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.85%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.67%) Windows
2 14 (12.96%) Linux
3 11 (10.19%) Unix
4 9 (8.33%) zOS
5 6 (5.56%) AIX
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) VMS
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (12.96%) Agile
2 14 (12.96%) Migration
2 14 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 11 (10.19%) Change Control
4 9 (8.33%) DevOps
4 9 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (7.41%) Data Modelling
5 8 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (6.48%) API Management
6 7 (6.48%) CI/CD
6 7 (6.48%) Computer Science
6 7 (6.48%) Data Protection
6 7 (6.48%) Integration Testing
6 7 (6.48%) Project Delivery
6 7 (6.48%) Roadmaps
6 7 (6.48%) SOA
6 7 (6.48%) UML
7 6 (5.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.93%) SQL
2 24 (22.22%) Java
3 15 (13.89%) Python
4 8 (7.41%) RPG
5 7 (6.48%) PL/SQL
5 7 (6.48%) Shell Script
6 6 (5.56%) Korn
6 6 (5.56%) Perl
6 6 (5.56%) XPath
7 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.70%) REXX
9 3 (2.78%) CLIST
10 2 (1.85%) Jython
10 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.93%) Assembly Language
11 1 (0.93%) COBOL
11 1 (0.93%) JCL
11 1 (0.93%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.26%) Degree
4 6 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
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%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) SLA
3 3 (2.78%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.78%) SEPA
4 2 (1.85%) Basel III
4 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS
5 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 15022
5 1 (0.93%) MiFID
5 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
1 1 (0.93%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (0.93%) RACF
1 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (5.56%) Control-M
2 5 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.63%) TIBCO Hawk
2 5 (4.63%) Tivoli NetView
2 5 (4.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (3.70%) Terraform
4 3 (2.78%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.85%) EMC NetWorker
5 2 (1.85%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.93%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 18 (16.67%) Oracle
2 7 (6.48%) SAP
3 6 (5.56%) Google
3 6 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.56%) TIBCO
3 6 (5.56%) Veeam
4 5 (4.63%) BEA
4 5 (4.63%) Cognos
5 4 (3.70%) Cisco
5 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.70%) Software AG
5 4 (3.70%) webMethods
6 3 (2.78%) HP
7 2 (1.85%) BMC
7 2 (1.85%) Citrix
7 2 (1.85%) Dell
7 2 (1.85%) EMC
7 2 (1.85%) Informatica
7 2 (1.85%) Sage
7 2 (1.85%) Salesforce