IBM Contracts in London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

IBM England / London
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	153	133	97
Rank change year-on-year	-20	-36
Contract jobs citing IBM	343	412	525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.65%	1.90%	2.24%
As % of the Vendors category	4.01%	4.59%	5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted	220	259	297
Median daily rate	£500	£435	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+14.94%	-8.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£295	£313
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£625	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£401
% change year-on-year	-	-0.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	1	6
Median hourly rate	£22.58	£40.00	£45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-43.56%	-11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.64	£40.00	£13.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£23.52	£40.00	£62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£20.25	£28.50	£37.50
% change year-on-year	-28.94%	-24.00%

IBM is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	8559	8971	10328
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	41.29%	41.33%	44.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	5792	6194	6826
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£603	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£363
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted	111	115	257
Median hourly rate	£23.75	£18.70	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+27.00%	-6.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.65	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing IBM as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing IBM in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing IBM in London over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM in London.

Contractor 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 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-7	59	£498	+17.05%	18
Docklands, London	0	4	£575	+4.54%
Croydon	-3	4	£525	+16.66%
Bromley	+5	3	£575	+35.29%
Canary Wharf	-	3	-	-
Hayes	-	2	£350	-
Greenford	-	1	£344	-
Kingston Upon Thames	-	1	£600	-	1
Westminster	-	1	-	-
IBM England

IBM
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing IBM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for IBM.

1	226 (33.53%)	Java
2	214 (31.75%)	Oracle
3	202 (29.97%)	Finance
4	182 (27.00%)	WebSphere
5	175 (25.96%)	Linux
6	156 (23.15%)	Agile Software Development
7	154 (22.85%)	SQL
8	153 (22.70%)	Unix
9	146 (21.66%)	Banking
10	110 (16.32%)	Windows
11	92 (13.65%)	Microsoft
12	91 (13.50%)	AIX
13	90 (13.35%)	Middleware
13	90 (13.35%)	DevOps
14	89 (13.20%)	Web Services

15	85 (12.61%)	Migration
16	80 (11.87%)	Retail
17	78 (11.57%)	SQL Server
18	77 (11.42%)	Puppet
19	76 (11.28%)	Solaris
19	76 (11.28%)	WebSphere MQ
20	71 (10.53%)	VMware
21	69 (10.24%)	XML
21	69 (10.24%)	DB2
22	67 (9.94%)	SOAP
23	64 (9.50%)	JavaScript
24	61 (9.05%)	IBM Integration Bus
25	59 (8.75%)	Analytical Skills
26	57 (8.46%)	Oracle Database
27	55 (8.16%)	E-Commerce

IBM
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	182 (27.00%)	WebSphere
2	47 (6.97%)	Apache
3	28 (4.15%)	JBoss
4	26 (3.86%)	WebSphere Application Server
5	23 (3.41%)	Confluence
6	22 (3.26%)	IIS
7	21 (3.12%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	19 (2.82%)	MQSeries
8	19 (2.82%)	SAS
8	19 (2.82%)	Tomcat
9	16 (2.37%)	WebLogic
10	14 (2.08%)	Apache Spark
10	14 (2.08%)	Mule
11	13 (1.93%)	OpenStack
12	12 (1.78%)	Cloud Foundry
13	10 (1.48%)	CMS
14	8 (1.19%)	Adobe Experience Manager
14	8 (1.19%)	BizTalk Server
14	8 (1.19%)	WebSphere Portal
15	7 (1.04%)	Apache Solr

Applications
1	29 (4.30%)	Microsoft Office
2	21 (3.12%)	Microsoft Excel
3	16 (2.37%)	MS Visio
4	10 (1.48%)	Microsoft Project
5	8 (1.19%)	SPSS
6	3 (0.45%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
7	2 (0.30%)	Photoshop
8	1 (0.15%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	1 (0.15%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	12 (1.78%)	Magento
1	12 (1.78%)	Unica
2	10 (1.48%)	Maximo
3	9 (1.34%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	8 (1.19%)	Cognos TM1
5	7 (1.04%)	Adobe Campaign
5	7 (1.04%)	Oracle BPM
6	6 (0.89%)	Fredhopper
7	5 (0.74%)	Cognos Business Intelligence
8	4 (0.59%)	ION MarketView
9	3 (0.45%)	IBM Operational Decision Manager
9	3 (0.45%)	Temenos T24
10	2 (0.30%)	Eikon
10	2 (0.30%)	NetSuite
10	2 (0.30%)	Oracle EBS
10	2 (0.30%)	Oracle Payables
10	2 (0.30%)	SAP CRM
11	1 (0.15%)	FileNet Content Manager
11	1 (0.15%)	RMDS
11	1 (0.15%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	43 (6.38%)	Amazon AWS
2	29 (4.30%)	IBM Cloud
3	24 (3.56%)	Microsoft Azure
4	22 (3.26%)	Cloud Computing
5	20 (2.97%)	Bluemix
6	14 (2.08%)	SoftLayer
7	11 (1.63%)	PaaS
8	10 (1.48%)	Office 365
9	9 (1.34%)	GitHub
10	7 (1.04%)	SaaS
11	6 (0.89%)	IaaS
12	5 (0.74%)	Akamai
13	4 (0.59%)	Google Cloud Platform
13	4 (0.59%)	IBM Blueworks
14	3 (0.45%)	Slack
14	3 (0.45%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	2 (0.30%)	Amazon ELB
15	2 (0.30%)	CloudFront
15	2 (0.30%)	Force.com
16	1 (0.15%)	Adobe Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	52 (7.72%)	SAN
2	46 (6.82%)	Firewall
3	33 (4.90%)	DNS
4	28 (4.15%)	TCP/IP
5	26 (3.86%)	HTTP
6	21 (3.12%)	LDAP
7	18 (2.67%)	FTP
8	14 (2.08%)	SSL
9	9 (1.34%)	NAS
10	8 (1.19%)	Network Security
11	6 (0.89%)	DHCP
11	6 (0.89%)	LAN
11	6 (0.89%)	SMS
11	6 (0.89%)	SMTP
11	6 (0.89%)	SNMP
11	6 (0.89%)	WAN
12	5 (0.74%)	Fibre Channel
12	5 (0.74%)	Multicast
12	5 (0.74%)	SSH
13	4 (0.59%)	NetScaler

Database & Business Intelligence
1	78 (11.57%)	SQL Server
2	69 (10.24%)	DB2
3	57 (8.46%)	Oracle Database
4	40 (5.93%)	Relational Database
5	33 (4.90%)	Data Warehouse
6	32 (4.75%)	Big Data
7	31 (4.60%)	Hadoop
8	23 (3.41%)	RDBMS
9	21 (3.12%)	IBM InfoSphere
9	21 (3.12%)	NoSQL
10	18 (2.67%)	DataStage
11	14 (2.08%)	DbVisualizer
12	13 (1.93%)	Adabas
12	13 (1.93%)	MySQL
13	11 (1.63%)	MariaDB
14	10 (1.48%)	PostgreSQL
14	10 (1.48%)	QlikView
15	9 (1.34%)	HBase
15	9 (1.34%)	MarkLogic
16	7 (1.04%)	SQL Server 2008

Development Applications
1	49 (7.27%)	Jenkins
2	45 (6.68%)	JIRA
3	36 (5.34%)	Git (software)
4	31 (4.60%)	Maven
5	30 (4.45%)	Cucumber
6	29 (4.30%)	TeamCity
7	22 (3.26%)	Selenium
8	19 (2.82%)	Subversion
9	15 (2.23%)	Gradle
10	14 (2.08%)	Ant
11	13 (1.93%)	Team Foundation Server
12	12 (1.78%)	HP UFT
12	12 (1.78%)	JUnit
12	12 (1.78%)	WebDriver
13	10 (1.48%)	Mockito
14	9 (1.34%)	Octopus Deploy
15	8 (1.19%)	ERwin
16	7 (1.04%)	Hudson
16	7 (1.04%)	Visual Studio
17	6 (0.89%)	Talend Open Studio

General
1	202 (29.97%)	Finance
2	146 (21.66%)	Banking
3	80 (11.87%)	Retail
4	30 (4.45%)	Marketing
5	28 (4.15%)	Investment Banking
6	23 (3.41%)	Telecoms
7	14 (2.08%)	Games
8	11 (1.63%)	Front Office
8	11 (1.63%)	Legal
9	9 (1.34%)	Advertising
9	9 (1.34%)	International Banking
9	9 (1.34%)	Prime Brokerage
10	8 (1.19%)	Electronics
10	8 (1.19%)	Financial Institution
11	7 (1.04%)	Manufacturing
12	5 (0.74%)	Aerospace
12	5 (0.74%)	Law
13	4 (0.59%)	Publishing
14	3 (0.45%)	Back Office
14	3 (0.45%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	157 (23.29%)	Developer
2	97 (14.39%)	Architect
3	75 (11.13%)	Consultant
4	67 (9.94%)	Analyst
5	49 (7.27%)	Java Developer
6	39 (5.79%)	DevOps Engineer
7	31 (4.60%)	AIX Engineer
8	30 (4.45%)	Unix Engineer
9	24 (3.56%)	Solutions Architect
10	22 (3.26%)	Designer
11	21 (3.12%)	Solaris Engineer
12	20 (2.97%)	Infrastructure Engineer
12	20 (2.97%)	Systems Engineer
13	19 (2.82%)	Senior Developer
14	18 (2.67%)	Technical Architect
15	17 (2.52%)	Unix Systems Engineer
16	16 (2.37%)	BPM Developer
16	16 (2.37%)	Linux Engineer
17	15 (2.23%)	Data Architect
17	15 (2.23%)	WebSphere Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	90 (13.35%)	Middleware
2	89 (13.20%)	Web Services
3	76 (11.28%)	WebSphere MQ
4	69 (10.24%)	XML
5	67 (9.94%)	SOAP
6	61 (9.05%)	IBM Integration Bus
7	54 (8.01%)	REST
7	54 (8.01%)	RESTful
8	49 (7.27%)	J2EE
9	39 (5.79%)	HTML
9	39 (5.79%)	Spring
10	33 (4.90%)	.NET
11	30 (4.45%)	JMS
12	29 (4.30%)	XSLT
13	22 (3.26%)	CSS
14	21 (3.12%)	Hibernate
14	21 (3.12%)	JSON
14	21 (3.12%)	Spring MVC
15	20 (2.97%)	HTML5
16	18 (2.67%)	ISPF

Miscellaneous
1	59 (8.75%)	Analytical Skills
2	39 (5.79%)	Data Centre
3	38 (5.64%)	Mainframe
4	28 (4.15%)	DataPower
5	23 (3.41%)	iSeries
6	22 (3.26%)	Computer Science
7	17 (2.52%)	Management Information System
8	15 (2.23%)	IBM Mainframe
8	15 (2.23%)	Private Cloud
8	15 (2.23%)	Tandem
9	14 (2.08%)	SWIFT
10	13 (1.93%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
10	13 (1.93%)	Replication
10	13 (1.93%)	User Experience
11	12 (1.78%)	Equities
12	11 (1.63%)	Derivative
13	10 (1.48%)	Credit Risk
14	9 (1.34%)	Fixed Income
14	9 (1.34%)	PKI
15	8 (1.19%)	Data Structures

Operating Systems
1	175 (25.96%)	Linux
2	153 (22.70%)	Unix
3	110 (16.32%)	Windows
4	91 (13.50%)	AIX
5	76 (11.28%)	Solaris
6	39 (5.79%)	Windows Server
7	24 (3.56%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	24 (3.56%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8	20 (2.97%)	zOS
9	18 (2.67%)	SUSE
10	17 (2.52%)	Oracle Linux
11	11 (1.63%)	Apple iOS
11	11 (1.63%)	Windows Server 2012
12	8 (1.19%)	Windows Server 2008
13	7 (1.04%)	CentOS
14	5 (0.74%)	VMS
15	3 (0.45%)	Android
15	3 (0.45%)	OS/390
15	3 (0.45%)	Windows 7
15	3 (0.45%)	Windows Server 2003

Processes & Methodologies
1	156 (23.15%)	Agile Software Development
2	90 (13.35%)	DevOps
3	85 (12.61%)	Migration
4	55 (8.16%)	E-Commerce
5	53 (7.86%)	Data Modelling
5	53 (7.86%)	Scrum
6	52 (7.72%)	Analytics
6	52 (7.72%)	SOA
7	48 (7.12%)	Open Source
8	45 (6.68%)	TDD
9	43 (6.38%)	Change Management
9	43 (6.38%)	ITIL
10	38 (5.64%)	Business Intelligence
11	37 (5.49%)	ETL
12	34 (5.04%)	High Availability
13	33 (4.90%)	SDLC
14	32 (4.75%)	Enterprise Architecture
14	32 (4.75%)	OO
15	31 (4.60%)	Test Automation
16	30 (4.45%)	Continuous Integration

Programming Languages
1	226 (33.53%)	Java
2	154 (22.85%)	SQL
3	64 (9.50%)	JavaScript
4	39 (5.79%)	Perl
5	34 (5.04%)	Bash Shell
6	30 (4.45%)	Python
7	29 (4.30%)	Shell Script
8	25 (3.71%)	PowerShell
9	22 (3.26%)	C++
10	20 (2.97%)	C
11	19 (2.82%)	JCL
11	19 (2.82%)	PL/SQL
12	14 (2.08%)	Scala
12	14 (2.08%)	XPath
13	13 (1.93%)	C#
14	11 (1.63%)	Korn
14	11 (1.63%)	VB
15	9 (1.34%)	R
16	6 (0.89%)	PHP
17	5 (0.74%)	COBOL

Qualifications
1	52 (7.72%)	Security Cleared
2	41 (6.08%)	SC Cleared
3	28 (4.15%)	Degree
4	10 (1.48%)	ISTQB
5	9 (1.34%)	CISSP
5	9 (1.34%)	ISEB
5	9 (1.34%)	Master's Degree
6	6 (0.89%)	CISM
7	5 (0.74%)	BPSS Clearance
7	5 (0.74%)	CISA
7	5 (0.74%)	IBM Certification
8	4 (0.59%)	PMI Certification
9	3 (0.45%)	PMP
10	2 (0.30%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	1 (0.15%)	BC Cleared
11	1 (0.15%)	CCDP
11	1 (0.15%)	CEH
11	1 (0.15%)	Cisco Certification
11	1 (0.15%)	ITIL Certification
11	1 (0.15%)	Postgraduate

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	18 (2.67%)	QA
2	15 (2.23%)	PCI DSS
3	11 (1.63%)	Data Quality
4	8 (1.19%)	SLA
5	7 (1.04%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	6 (0.89%)	ISO/IEC 27001
6	6 (0.89%)	SEPA
7	5 (0.74%)	FedRAMP
7	5 (0.74%)	GDPR
8	4 (0.59%)	GPG13
8	4 (0.59%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8	4 (0.59%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	3 (0.45%)	ISO 20022
10	1 (0.15%)	ISO 15022
10	1 (0.15%)	MiFID
10	1 (0.15%)	PMO

System Software
1	43 (6.38%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	32 (4.75%)	Docker
3	25 (3.71%)	Active Directory
4	21 (3.12%)	Virtual Machines
5	18 (2.67%)	Time Sharing Option
6	12 (1.78%)	Oracle RAC
7	11 (1.63%)	Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7	11 (1.63%)	vSphere
8	8 (1.19%)	Hyper-V
8	8 (1.19%)	NFS
9	7 (1.04%)	VMware ESXi
10	6 (0.89%)	XenApp
10	6 (0.89%)	XenDesktop
11	5 (0.74%)	Apache Flume
11	5 (0.74%)	OpenSSH
12	4 (0.59%)	HDFS
12	4 (0.59%)	SRDF
12	4 (0.59%)	Veritas Volume Manager
13	3 (0.45%)	Veritas File System
13	3 (0.45%)	Virtual Desktop

Systems Management
1	77 (11.42%)	Puppet
2	29 (4.30%)	Tivoli
3	23 (3.41%)	Ansible
4	16 (2.37%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	15 (2.23%)	Nagios
6	13 (1.93%)	Opscode Chef
7	10 (1.48%)	Kubernetes
7	10 (1.48%)	Tivoli Identity Manager
8	6 (0.89%)	Control-M
8	6 (0.89%)	IBM BigFix
9	5 (0.74%)	Kibana
9	5 (0.74%)	logstash
10	4 (0.59%)	Hadoop YARN
10	4 (0.59%)	ITRS Geneos
10	4 (0.59%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	4 (0.59%)	QRadar
10	4 (0.59%)	Terraform
11	3 (0.45%)	BMC PATROL
11	3 (0.45%)	OpenView
11	3 (0.45%)	Tivoli NetView

Vendors
1	214 (31.75%)	Oracle
2	92 (13.65%)	Microsoft
3	71 (10.53%)	VMware
4	49 (7.27%)	HP
5	41 (6.08%)	SAP
6	39 (5.79%)	IBM Sterling
7	31 (4.60%)	Informatica
8	29 (4.30%)	Adobe
9	26 (3.86%)	TIBCO
10	25 (3.71%)	hybris
11	22 (3.26%)	Citrix
11	22 (3.26%)	Red Hat
12	21 (3.12%)	Sybase
13	20 (2.97%)	Cognos
14	19 (2.82%)	Pega
15	18 (2.67%)	Cisco
15	18 (2.67%)	Splunk
16	17 (2.52%)	ATG
16	17 (2.52%)	Symantec
17	16 (2.37%)	Bloomberg