IBM Contract Job Trends in Luton

IBM
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Luton 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 1.36% 2.27% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 2.94% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £516 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.50 - -
Median hourly rate £71.00 - -
75th Percentile £71.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £71.00 - -

All Vendors
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 105 68 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 71.43% 77.27% 63.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 38 81
10th Percentile £313 £459 £425
25th Percentile £406 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £538
90th Percentile £649 £700 £560
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £525 £508
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.45% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 0
10th Percentile £77.15 £46.30 -
25th Percentile - £52.35 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.76% - -
75th Percentile - £66.05 -
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.80 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £80.00 £52.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +52.38% - +172.73%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton.

IBM job vacancy trend in Luton

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Luton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Luton citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) DataStage
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Acoustics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cognos
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle