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 16 May 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 220 302
Rank change year-on-year -17 +82 -50
Contract jobs citing IBM 122 172 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 0.98% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.16% 2.41% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 112 129
10th Percentile £389 £421 £425
25th Percentile £425 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -11.02%
75th Percentile £683 £722 £625
90th Percentile £752 £834 £740
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%

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 5,646 7,129 10,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.52% 40.83% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,702 4,880 7,194
10th Percentile £330 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.13% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 128 126
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.86 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £16.86 £21.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £22.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -19.64% -20.00%
75th Percentile £50.50 £35.06 £55.81
90th Percentile £67.00 £58.63 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.34 £22.08 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.30% -41.13% +75.23%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -14 22 £610 +0.62% 13
South London - 3 - - 1
East London +18 2 £415 -12.14% 2
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 9 (7.38%) Confluence
2 8 (6.56%) CICS
2 8 (6.56%) MQSeries
3 7 (5.74%) SAS
4 6 (4.92%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.46%) JBoss
6 2 (1.64%) Apache
6 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.64%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.82%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.82%) Documentum
7 1 (0.82%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (4.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (1.64%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.64%) Misys Midas
2 2 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.82%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.82%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.82%) Unica
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.95%) Azure
2 23 (18.85%) AWS
3 14 (11.48%) GCP
4 7 (5.74%) GitHub
4 7 (5.74%) Nutanix
5 6 (4.92%) SaaS
6 5 (4.10%) Azure API Management
6 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.46%) Collibra
8 3 (2.46%) IaaS
8 3 (2.46%) PaaS
8 3 (2.46%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.64%) BigCommerce
9 2 (1.64%) Boomi
9 2 (1.64%) IBM Blueworks
9 2 (1.64%) IBM Watson
9 2 (1.64%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.64%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.74%) HTTPS
2 6 (4.92%) DNS
2 6 (4.92%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.28%) HTTP
3 4 (3.28%) Network Security
3 4 (3.28%) SSH
3 4 (3.28%) SSL
4 3 (2.46%) BGP
4 3 (2.46%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.46%) LAN
4 3 (2.46%) MPLS
4 3 (2.46%) OSPF
4 3 (2.46%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (2.46%) VPN
5 2 (1.64%) HSRP
5 2 (1.64%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.64%) WAN
6 1 (0.82%) DHCP
6 1 (0.82%) NAS
6 1 (0.82%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) DB2
2 12 (9.84%) Oracle Database
3 9 (7.38%) SQL Server
4 8 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.56%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.10%) Power BI
5 5 (4.10%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.28%) Data Mining
6 4 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.46%) Metadata
7 3 (2.46%) Oracle Database 10g
7 3 (2.46%) Oracle Exadata
7 3 (2.46%) QlikView
7 3 (2.46%) Tableau
8 2 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.64%) IMS/DB
8 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.64%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (9.84%) JIRA
2 9 (7.38%) Git
3 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.74%) TeamCity
4 6 (4.92%) Subversion
5 4 (3.28%) Ant
6 3 (2.46%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (2.46%) JUnit
6 3 (2.46%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.46%) Toad
7 2 (1.64%) GitLab
8 1 (0.82%) AppScan
8 1 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.82%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.82%) JBehave
8 1 (0.82%) Maven
8 1 (0.82%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 50 (40.98%) Finance
2 47 (38.52%) Social Skills
3 26 (21.31%) Banking
4 22 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.38%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.10%) Front Office
7 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.28%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.64%) Marketing
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Advertising
10 1 (0.82%) Back Office
10 1 (0.82%) Billing
10 1 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.82%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.82%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.82%) Publishing
10 1 (0.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (20.49%) Developer
2 22 (18.03%) Architect
3 17 (13.93%) Consultant
4 11 (9.02%) Analyst
5 9 (7.38%) Senior
6 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.92%) Programmer
7 6 (4.92%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (4.92%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 5 (4.10%) Administrator
8 5 (4.10%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.10%) Linux Administrator
8 5 (4.10%) Migration Architect
8 5 (4.10%) RPG Developer
9 4 (3.28%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.28%) Integration Developer
9 4 (3.28%) Server Engineer
10 3 (2.46%) Data Migration Architect
10 3 (2.46%) Grid Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.75%) XML
2 14 (11.48%) Middleware
3 11 (9.02%) EntireX
4 9 (7.38%) SOAP
5 8 (6.56%) ISPF
5 8 (6.56%) Kafka
6 6 (4.92%) IBM Integration Bus
6 6 (4.92%) REST
6 6 (4.92%) RESTful
7 4 (3.28%) .NET
7 4 (3.28%) OAuth
7 4 (3.28%) OpenID
7 4 (3.28%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.28%) Web Services
7 4 (3.28%) WebSphere MQ
7 4 (3.28%) XSLT
8 3 (2.46%) EDI
8 3 (2.46%) HTML
8 3 (2.46%) LDAP
8 3 (2.46%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Mainframe
2 9 (7.38%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.56%) Clustering
4 7 (5.74%) AS400
4 7 (5.74%) Reference Data
5 6 (4.92%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.92%) iSeries
5 6 (4.92%) Replication
6 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.28%) Grid Computing
7 4 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.28%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (2.46%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
8 3 (2.46%) IBM Mainframe
8 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.46%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.21%) Windows
2 19 (15.57%) Linux
3 17 (13.93%) Unix
4 11 (9.02%) zOS
5 7 (5.74%) AIX
5 7 (5.74%) Solaris
6 6 (4.92%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.46%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.82%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (16.39%) Agile
3 18 (14.75%) Migration
4 15 (12.30%) DevOps
5 14 (11.48%) CI/CD
6 13 (10.66%) Data Governance
7 11 (9.02%) Analytics
7 11 (9.02%) API Integration
7 11 (9.02%) Computer Science
7 11 (9.02%) High Availability
7 11 (9.02%) Microservices
7 11 (9.02%) Service Management
8 10 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (8.20%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (8.20%) ITIL
8 10 (8.20%) Process Improvement
9 9 (7.38%) Data Protection
9 9 (7.38%) Performance Monitoring
9 9 (7.38%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (7.38%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (29.51%) SQL
2 33 (27.05%) Python
3 26 (21.31%) Java
4 12 (9.84%) Perl
5 10 (8.20%) C#
5 10 (8.20%) JCL
5 10 (8.20%) REXX
6 9 (7.38%) PL/SQL
7 8 (6.56%) Assembly Language
7 8 (6.56%) PowerShell
7 8 (6.56%) RPG
8 7 (5.74%) Bash
8 7 (5.74%) C++
9 6 (4.92%) ActionScript
9 6 (4.92%) ActionScript 2.0
10 5 (4.10%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.28%) C
11 4 (3.28%) CLIST
11 4 (3.28%) Korn
12 3 (2.46%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) Degree
4 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.46%) IBM Certification
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.82%) CEH
6 1 (0.82%) CISM
6 1 (0.82%) CISSP
6 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.82%) GIAC
6 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.20%) GDPR
2 9 (7.38%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (3.28%) GRC
4 4 (3.28%) QA
4 4 (3.28%) SEPA
5 3 (2.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.82%) GAAP
6 1 (0.82%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) NIST
6 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (6.56%) Docker
2 7 (5.74%) Time Sharing Option
2 7 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.28%) Platform Symphony
3 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.82%) ACF2
5 1 (0.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.82%) NFS
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.82%) RACF
5 1 (0.82%) Veritas File System
5 1 (0.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (11.48%) Ansible
2 10 (8.20%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.20%) Tivoli
3 7 (5.74%) QRadar
4 6 (4.92%) Control-M
4 6 (4.92%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (4.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (4.10%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (3.28%) Grafana
6 4 (3.28%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (3.28%) Kibana
6 4 (3.28%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (2.46%) Terraform
8 2 (1.64%) Netcool
9 1 (0.82%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.82%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.82%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (21.31%) Oracle
2 15 (12.30%) ServiceNow
3 11 (9.02%) Software AG
3 11 (9.02%) Splunk
4 10 (8.20%) TIBCO
5 9 (7.38%) Microsoft
5 9 (7.38%) Red Hat
6 8 (6.56%) IBM Sterling
6 8 (6.56%) VMware
7 7 (5.74%) CyberArk
7 7 (5.74%) EMC
7 7 (5.74%) Qualys
8 6 (4.92%) Google
9 5 (4.10%) SaltStack
10 4 (3.28%) Cisco
10 4 (3.28%) Dell
10 4 (3.28%) Informatica
10 4 (3.28%) Sybase
11 3 (2.46%) HP
11 3 (2.46%) SAP