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 15 February 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
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 241 200
Rank change year-on-year -19 -41 +96
Contract jobs citing IBM 121 120 204
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 0.88% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 2.01% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 66 145
10th Percentile £350 £374 £413
25th Percentile £404 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £620
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -17.34% +18.10%
75th Percentile £628 £621 £750
90th Percentile £690 £724 £788
England median daily rate £474 £494 £550
% change year-on-year -4.05% -10.23% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £22.32 - -
25th Percentile £25.46 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £70.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -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 6,899 5,983 7,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.20% 44.06% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,534 3,696 5,096
10th Percentile £350 £313 £282
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -3.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 73 144
10th Percentile £18.03 £21.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.65 £23.80 £17.59
Median hourly rate £27.36 £35.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.84% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £44.25 £61.50 £43.88
90th Percentile £65.73 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £27.76
% change year-on-year -22.18% +10.29% -15.89%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 18 £525 -7.08% 8
East London -3 2 £416 +4.00% 1
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 16 (13.22%) WebSphere
2 10 (8.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (7.44%) MQSeries
4 8 (6.61%) WebLogic
5 4 (3.31%) Confluence
6 2 (1.65%) CICS
6 2 (1.65%) nginx
6 2 (1.65%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.83%) JBoss
7 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.83%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (4.13%) Maximo
3 4 (3.31%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (2.48%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.83%) Algo Collateral
6 1 (0.83%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.83%) SAP AFS
6 1 (0.83%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.83%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.83%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.83%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.83%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.83%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 29 (23.97%) AWS
2 17 (14.05%) Azure
3 8 (6.61%) GCP
4 7 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (5.79%) Azure API Management
4 7 (5.79%) Serverless
5 5 (4.13%) IBM Watson
5 5 (4.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.48%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (1.65%) OCI
8 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.65%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.65%) SaaS
8 2 (1.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.96%) HTTP
2 4 (3.31%) APPN
2 4 (3.31%) HTTPS
2 4 (3.31%) SAN
2 4 (3.31%) SNA
2 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.31%) VPN
3 3 (2.48%) LAN
3 3 (2.48%) WAN
4 2 (1.65%) DNS
4 2 (1.65%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) DWDM
5 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.83%) Firewall
5 1 (0.83%) MPLS
5 1 (0.83%) Multicast
5 1 (0.83%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.83%) SSL
5 1 (0.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) DB2
2 13 (10.74%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.61%) DataStage
3 8 (6.61%) Oracle Database
4 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.79%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.13%) DynamoDB
5 5 (4.13%) Power BI
6 4 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.48%) Tableau
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.65%) Big Data
8 2 (1.65%) Metadata
8 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 8 (6.61%) Ant
2 8 (6.61%) GitLab
3 5 (4.13%) JUnit
3 5 (4.13%) SoapUI
4 4 (3.31%) Git
4 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.48%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.83%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.83%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.83%) Toad
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.83%) XPEDITER
General
1 39 (32.23%) Finance
2 34 (28.10%) Banking
3 26 (21.49%) Social Skills
4 12 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (6.61%) Financial Institution
6 8 (6.61%) Private Banking
7 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Front Office
9 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.83%) International Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Developer
2 21 (17.36%) Architect
3 10 (8.26%) Analyst
4 8 (6.61%) Data Engineer
4 8 (6.61%) Senior
4 8 (6.61%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.79%) Lead
6 6 (4.96%) Analyst Developer
6 6 (4.96%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (4.13%) AS400 Developer
8 4 (3.31%) Break Fix Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Data Scientist
8 4 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) webMethods Developer
9 3 (2.48%) Informatica Architect
9 3 (2.48%) Java Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Middleware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (23.97%) XML
2 18 (14.88%) Kafka
3 16 (13.22%) SOAP
4 14 (11.57%) Middleware
5 13 (10.74%) JMS
6 12 (9.92%) XSLT
7 10 (8.26%) Web Services
8 9 (7.44%) REST
9 8 (6.61%) J2EE
9 8 (6.61%) JSON
9 8 (6.61%) WSDL
10 7 (5.79%) OC4J
10 7 (5.79%) TIBCO EMS
10 7 (5.79%) XSD
11 6 (4.96%) IBM Integration Bus
12 5 (4.13%) Spring
12 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
12 5 (4.13%) WebSphere MQ
13 4 (3.31%) OAuth
14 3 (2.48%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.70%) Mainframe
2 9 (7.44%) AS400
2 9 (7.44%) Data Centre
2 9 (7.44%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.79%) DataPower
4 5 (4.13%) iSeries
4 5 (4.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.48%) Derivative
7 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.65%) EMC VNX
7 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) VSAM
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.05%) Linux
1 17 (14.05%) Windows
2 13 (10.74%) zOS
3 9 (7.44%) Unix
4 5 (4.13%) AIX
5 3 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.65%) Solaris
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.83%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.40%) Migration
3 14 (11.57%) Agile
3 14 (11.57%) DevOps
4 13 (10.74%) ETL
4 13 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (9.92%) CI/CD
5 12 (9.92%) Data Modelling
5 12 (9.92%) SOA
6 11 (9.09%) Change Control
7 10 (8.26%) Analytics
8 9 (7.44%) AI
8 9 (7.44%) UML
9 8 (6.61%) Design Patterns
9 8 (6.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (5.79%) API Management
10 7 (5.79%) Break/Fix
10 7 (5.79%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (5.79%) Resource Management
10 7 (5.79%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.58%) SQL
2 27 (22.31%) Java
3 20 (16.53%) Python
4 11 (9.09%) PL/SQL
5 8 (6.61%) RPG
5 8 (6.61%) XPath
6 6 (4.96%) Korn
6 6 (4.96%) Perl
6 6 (4.96%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.65%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.65%) Bash
8 2 (1.65%) COBOL
8 2 (1.65%) JCL
8 2 (1.65%) Jython
8 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.65%) REXX
8 2 (1.65%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) Bicep
9 1 (0.83%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.88%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.65%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) CCIE
7 1 (0.83%) CCNP
7 1 (0.83%) CCSM
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PhD
7 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.83%) PMP
7 1 (0.83%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
1 10 (8.26%) SLA
2 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.31%) SEPA
4 3 (2.48%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) Basel III
6 1 (0.83%) GAAP
6 1 (0.83%) GDPR
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) IFRS
6 1 (0.83%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.83%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.65%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.83%) Firmware
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.83%) RACF
3 1 (0.83%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.44%) Terraform
2 8 (6.61%) Control-M
3 7 (5.79%) TIBCO Hawk
4 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.13%) Ansible
6 4 (3.31%) Tivoli NetView
7 3 (2.48%) Grafana
8 2 (1.65%) EMC NetWorker
8 2 (1.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.83%) Argo
9 1 (0.83%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.83%) Podman
9 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.83%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.83%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (21.49%) Oracle
2 11 (9.09%) SAP
3 8 (6.61%) Google
3 8 (6.61%) TIBCO
4 7 (5.79%) BEA
4 7 (5.79%) Dell
4 7 (5.79%) HP
4 7 (5.79%) Informatica
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco
6 4 (3.31%) Cognos
6 4 (3.31%) Databricks
6 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.31%) Software AG
6 4 (3.31%) webMethods
7 3 (2.48%) BMC
7 3 (2.48%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.48%) Sage
7 3 (2.48%) Veeam
7 3 (2.48%) VMware
8 2 (1.65%) Brocade