IBM Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 244 279
Rank change year-on-year +14 +35 -27
Contract jobs citing IBM 132 155 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.99% 0.88% 0.85%
As % of the Vendors category 2.18% 2.09% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 104 151
10th Percentile £397 £364 £413
25th Percentile £422 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £631
90th Percentile £760 £826 £750
England median daily rate £513 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +2.50% -1.96% -11.30%

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 6,049 7,414 10,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.53% 42.14% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,917 5,073 7,376
10th Percentile £325 £312 £325
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -3.64% -0.09%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 127 123
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.60 £17.96 £21.12
Median hourly rate £28.33 £24.18 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -21.37% -10.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.40 £25.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year +1.60% -23.66% +52.33%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in London.

Daily rate trend for IBM in London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in London

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 6 July 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 0 22 £550 -12.00% 41
South London - 3 - - 2
East London +11 2 £415 -5.65% 3
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.33%) MQSeries
1 11 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 8 (6.06%) CICS
3 5 (3.79%) SAS
4 4 (3.03%) Confluence
5 3 (2.27%) JBoss
5 3 (2.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (2.27%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.76%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.76%) Documentum
6 1 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.76%) IBM Transformation Extender
6 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.27%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.27%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.27%) Sketch
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.52%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.52%) Misys Midas
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.52%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.76%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.76%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.97%) AWS
1 29 (21.97%) Azure
2 15 (11.36%) GCP
3 8 (6.06%) SaaS
4 6 (4.55%) GitHub
5 5 (3.79%) Azure API Management
5 5 (3.79%) IBM Watson
5 5 (3.79%) Nutanix
6 4 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (3.03%) IaaS
6 4 (3.03%) PaaS
7 3 (2.27%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.27%) ChatGPT
7 3 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.27%) Figma
7 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.27%) Serverless
8 2 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.52%) OCI
8 2 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) HTTPS
2 5 (3.79%) DNS
2 5 (3.79%) SSL
2 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.03%) HTTP
3 4 (3.03%) SSH
4 2 (1.52%) Internet
4 2 (1.52%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.52%) LAN
4 2 (1.52%) SAN
4 2 (1.52%) SMS
5 1 (0.76%) DHCP
5 1 (0.76%) NAS
5 1 (0.76%) Network Security
5 1 (0.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.88%) DB2
2 14 (10.61%) Oracle Database
3 12 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
5 7 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.79%) RDBMS
7 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.27%) Oracle Database 10g
8 3 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
8 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.52%) IMS/DB
9 2 (1.52%) NonStop SQL
9 2 (1.52%) Power BI
10 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.76%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.33%) JIRA
2 8 (6.06%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.55%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (3.79%) TeamCity
5 4 (3.03%) Ant
5 4 (3.03%) Subversion
6 3 (2.27%) GitLab
6 3 (2.27%) JUnit
6 3 (2.27%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.27%) Toad
7 1 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.76%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.76%) ERwin
7 1 (0.76%) JBehave
7 1 (0.76%) Log4j
7 1 (0.76%) Maven
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (37.12%) Finance
2 47 (35.61%) Social Skills
3 37 (28.03%) Banking
4 21 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.30%) Financial Institution
6 6 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.79%) Front Office
7 5 (3.79%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.03%) Private Banking
9 3 (2.27%) Retail
10 2 (1.52%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.76%) Back Office
11 1 (0.76%) Billing
11 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.76%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (19.70%) Architect
1 26 (19.70%) Developer
2 25 (18.94%) Consultant
3 11 (8.33%) Senior
4 10 (7.58%) Analyst
5 9 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.30%) Programmer
7 6 (4.55%) RPG Developer
7 6 (4.55%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (4.55%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 5 (3.79%) Administrator
8 5 (3.79%) Migration Architect
8 5 (3.79%) Payments Analyst
8 5 (3.79%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (3.03%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (3.03%) Integration Developer
9 4 (3.03%) Linux Administrator
10 3 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.27%) Data Migration Architect
10 3 (2.27%) Grid Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.42%) XML
2 16 (12.12%) EntireX
3 15 (11.36%) Middleware
4 10 (7.58%) Kafka
5 9 (6.82%) SOAP
6 7 (5.30%) ISPF
7 6 (4.55%) OAuth
7 6 (4.55%) RESTful
8 5 (3.79%) .NET
8 5 (3.79%) IBM Integration Bus
8 5 (3.79%) REST
8 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.79%) WebSphere MQ
9 4 (3.03%) JSON
9 4 (3.03%) Web Services
9 4 (3.03%) XACML
9 4 (3.03%) XSLT
10 3 (2.27%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.27%) OpenID
10 3 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Mainframe
2 8 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (6.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (5.30%) AS400
3 7 (5.30%) iSeries
4 6 (4.55%) Clustering
4 6 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.55%) Replication
5 5 (3.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Grid Computing
6 4 (3.03%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
7 3 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.27%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
1 23 (17.42%) Windows
2 19 (14.39%) Unix
3 10 (7.58%) zOS
4 7 (5.30%) AIX
5 6 (4.55%) Windows Server
6 5 (3.79%) Solaris
7 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.76%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (19.70%) Migration
2 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (15.15%) Agile
4 15 (11.36%) Microservices
5 14 (10.61%) CI/CD
6 13 (9.85%) DevOps
7 12 (9.09%) Containerisation
7 12 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
8 11 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (7.58%) API Integration
9 10 (7.58%) Computer Science
9 10 (7.58%) High Availability
9 10 (7.58%) Mentoring
9 10 (7.58%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (6.82%) Analytics
10 9 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (6.82%) Data Governance
10 9 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (6.82%) ETL
10 9 (6.82%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.03%) SQL
2 27 (20.45%) Java
3 24 (18.18%) Python
4 13 (9.85%) REXX
5 10 (7.58%) Perl
5 10 (7.58%) RPG
6 9 (6.82%) C#
6 9 (6.82%) JCL
6 9 (6.82%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.06%) C++
8 7 (5.30%) Assembly Language
8 7 (5.30%) CLIST
9 6 (4.55%) ActionScript
9 6 (4.55%) ActionScript 2.0
9 6 (4.55%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.55%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.79%) Bash
10 5 (3.79%) C
11 4 (3.03%) Korn
12 3 (2.27%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 28 (21.21%) SC Cleared
1 28 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.33%) Degree
3 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.03%) IBM Certification
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.76%) CFA
7 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) SEPA
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.55%) ISO 20022
3 5 (3.79%) GDPR
3 5 (3.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.03%) GRC
4 4 (3.03%) QA
5 2 (1.52%) GAAP
5 2 (1.52%) ISO 15022
5 2 (1.52%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (7.58%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) Time Sharing Option
3 6 (4.55%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 5 (3.79%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 4 (3.03%) Platform Symphony
6 3 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.76%) ACF2
7 1 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.76%) NFS
7 1 (0.76%) RACF
7 1 (0.76%) Veritas File System
7 1 (0.76%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.33%) Tivoli
3 10 (7.58%) Ansible
4 6 (4.55%) Control-M
4 6 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
5 5 (3.79%) QRadar
5 5 (3.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (3.03%) EMC NetWorker
6 4 (3.03%) Grafana
6 4 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (3.03%) Kibana
6 4 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.27%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (1.52%) Netcool
8 2 (1.52%) Terraform
9 1 (0.76%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (23.48%) Oracle
2 16 (12.12%) Software AG
3 13 (9.85%) ServiceNow
4 10 (7.58%) Splunk
5 8 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 8 (6.06%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.06%) TIBCO
6 7 (5.30%) IBM Sterling
6 7 (5.30%) VMware
7 6 (4.55%) Google
8 5 (3.79%) CyberArk
8 5 (3.79%) EMC
8 5 (3.79%) Qualys
9 4 (3.03%) SaltStack
10 3 (2.27%) Cognos
10 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.27%) Genesys
10 3 (2.27%) HP
10 3 (2.27%) Perforce
10 3 (2.27%) Sybase