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 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
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 232 250
Rank change year-on-year -47 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing IBM 162 131 159
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.81% 0.96% 0.93%
As % of the Vendors category 1.95% 2.08% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 94 103
10th Percentile £350 £397 £363
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £595 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £594 £675 £678
90th Percentile £715 £764 £790
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £18.07 - -
25th Percentile £18.52 - -
Median hourly rate £19.85 - -
75th Percentile £24.29 - -
90th Percentile £25.77 - -
England median hourly rate £88.00 £25.08 £70.00
% change year-on-year +250.95% -64.18% -3.45%

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 8,316 6,285 7,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.76% 46.09% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,422 4,090 5,029
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £510 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 119 107
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.80
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.50 £20.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +0.11% -15.51%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.13 £43.13
90th Percentile £82.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.03
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.38% -30.59%

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 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 19 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 -10 20 £475 -13.64% 3
South London -14 2 £700 - 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 19 (11.73%) Confluence
2 18 (11.11%) WebSphere
3 12 (7.41%) nginx
4 11 (6.79%) Tomcat
5 9 (5.56%) CICS
5 9 (5.56%) SharePoint
6 5 (3.09%) JBoss
6 5 (3.09%) WebLogic
7 4 (2.47%) Camunda
8 2 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.62%) HCL Domino
9 1 (0.62%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.62%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (5.56%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.47%) Maximo
3 2 (1.23%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (1.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.62%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.62%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.62%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.62%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.62%) SAP AFS
4 1 (0.62%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.52%) AWS
2 28 (17.28%) Azure
3 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.70%) GCP
3 6 (3.70%) GitHub
4 5 (3.09%) Amazon S3
5 4 (2.47%) IBM Blueworks
6 3 (1.85%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (1.85%) MinIO
6 3 (1.85%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (1.23%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.62%) Google Gemini
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.62%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.94%) HTTP
2 3 (1.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
2 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.23%) APPN
3 2 (1.23%) LAN
3 2 (1.23%) SNA
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) DSL
4 1 (0.62%) DWDM
4 1 (0.62%) FTP
4 1 (0.62%) MPLS
4 1 (0.62%) Multicast
4 1 (0.62%) Network Security
4 1 (0.62%) SSL
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
4 1 (0.62%) WAN
4 1 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.64%) Db2
2 9 (5.56%) DataStage
2 9 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 9 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.70%) Metadata
6 5 (3.09%) Big Data
6 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.47%) GIS
8 3 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.23%) OLTP
9 2 (1.23%) Power BI
9 2 (1.23%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.62%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (9.26%) JIRA
2 14 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 11 (6.79%) Git
4 7 (4.32%) GitLab
5 5 (3.09%) Ant
5 5 (3.09%) Liquibase
5 5 (3.09%) PowerDesigner
6 4 (2.47%) Eclipse
6 4 (2.47%) Gradle
6 4 (2.47%) Maven
6 4 (2.47%) REST Assured
6 4 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.85%) JMeter
7 3 (1.85%) JUnit
7 3 (1.85%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.23%) IBM UrbanCode
8 2 (1.23%) Mockito
General
1 50 (30.86%) Finance
2 37 (22.84%) Banking
3 36 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 24 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.70%) Retail
7 4 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Back Office
9 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Front Office
10 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.62%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Legal
10 1 (0.62%) Military
10 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (20.37%) Architect
1 33 (20.37%) Developer
2 14 (8.64%) Lead
3 8 (4.94%) Analyst
3 8 (4.94%) Applications Architect
3 8 (4.94%) Data Engineer
3 8 (4.94%) Middleware Engineer
3 8 (4.94%) Senior
4 7 (4.32%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.32%) T24 Developer
5 6 (3.70%) Applications Support
5 6 (3.70%) CICS Engineer
5 6 (3.70%) Designer
5 6 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (3.70%) Integration Architect
5 6 (3.70%) Java Developer
5 6 (3.70%) Project Manager
6 5 (3.09%) Applications Manager
6 5 (3.09%) Applications Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.73%) Middleware
2 17 (10.49%) REST
2 17 (10.49%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.88%) Spring
4 13 (8.02%) XML
5 12 (7.41%) Kafka
6 10 (6.17%) JSON
7 7 (4.32%) Web Services
8 6 (3.70%) J2EE
8 6 (3.70%) SOAP
8 6 (3.70%) WebSphere MQ
8 6 (3.70%) XSLT
9 5 (3.09%) JMS
9 5 (3.09%) RESTful
10 4 (2.47%) .NET
10 4 (2.47%) EJB
10 4 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (2.47%) React
11 3 (1.85%) AngularJS
11 3 (1.85%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.81%) Mainframe
2 15 (9.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 12 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (4.94%) Data Structures
5 8 (4.94%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (4.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (3.70%) AS400
7 6 (3.70%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.85%) Celerra
9 3 (1.85%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (1.85%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.85%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (1.85%) IBM XIV
9 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.85%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.73%) Windows
2 18 (11.11%) Linux
3 14 (8.64%) zOS
4 11 (6.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (5.56%) Solaris
5 9 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (4.94%) Windows Server
7 7 (4.32%) Unix
7 7 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.62%) Android
9 1 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.62%) MVS
9 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.22%) DevOps
2 35 (21.60%) Agile
3 33 (20.37%) Migration
4 30 (18.52%) CI/CD
5 26 (16.05%) Scrum
6 24 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.35%) ETL
9 17 (10.49%) Roadmaps
10 16 (9.88%) Microservices
11 14 (8.64%) Test Automation
12 13 (8.02%) Root Cause Analysis
13 12 (7.41%) AI
13 12 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (6.79%) Validation
15 10 (6.17%) Analytics
15 10 (6.17%) Data Migration
15 10 (6.17%) Data Modelling
15 10 (6.17%) Software Engineering
15 10 (6.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (22.84%) SQL
2 36 (22.22%) Java
3 17 (10.49%) Python
4 13 (8.02%) PL/SQL
5 11 (6.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.32%) C#
7 5 (3.09%) COBOL
8 4 (2.47%) Bash
8 4 (2.47%) C++
9 3 (1.85%) Bicep
10 2 (1.23%) C
10 2 (1.23%) JCL
10 2 (1.23%) Korn
10 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.23%) REXX
10 2 (1.23%) RPG
10 2 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.62%) Groovy
11 1 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 37 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) Degree
4 4 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.23%) CCSP
5 2 (1.23%) CEH
5 2 (1.23%) CISA
5 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.23%) CISM
5 2 (1.23%) CISMP
5 2 (1.23%) CISSP
5 2 (1.23%) CSSLP
5 2 (1.23%) GCIH
5 2 (1.23%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.23%) PMP
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) ISO 20022
2 6 (3.70%) QA
2 6 (3.70%) SLA
3 5 (3.09%) SEPA
4 4 (2.47%) ISO 15022
5 3 (1.85%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) GRC
6 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.62%) GAAP
7 1 (0.62%) IFRS
7 1 (0.62%) PMO
7 1 (0.62%) TARGET2
7 1 (0.62%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (12.96%) Docker
2 6 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (1.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.62%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.62%) RACF
6 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (6.79%) Kubernetes
1 11 (6.79%) Terraform
2 9 (5.56%) Ansible
3 5 (3.09%) Oracle RMAN
4 4 (2.47%) Grafana
5 3 (1.85%) Avamar
5 3 (1.85%) EMC VPLEX
5 3 (1.85%) Tivoli NetView
6 2 (1.23%) CA Endevor
6 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.23%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.62%) Argo
7 1 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.62%) Kibana
7 1 (0.62%) logstash
7 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (22.84%) Oracle
2 11 (6.79%) SAP
3 8 (4.94%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.94%) Red Hat
3 8 (4.94%) Temenos
4 7 (4.32%) HP
4 7 (4.32%) Splunk
4 7 (4.32%) VMware
5 6 (3.70%) Dell
6 5 (3.09%) Cisco
7 4 (2.47%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.47%) Google
7 4 (2.47%) Informatica
7 4 (2.47%) NetApp
7 4 (2.47%) New Relic
8 3 (1.85%) 3PAR
8 3 (1.85%) Broadcom
8 3 (1.85%) Brocade
8 3 (1.85%) jBASE
8 3 (1.85%) Veeam