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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Luton 1.27% 2.88% -
As % of the Vendors category 1.94% 3.85% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £516 - £475
% change year-on-year - - -26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.60% - -
75th Percentile £71.50 £63.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year +13.60% - -

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 103 78 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 65.19% 75.00% 45.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 44 25
10th Percentile £380 £433 £310
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% +5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £638 £573 £600
90th Percentile £695 £650 -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £553 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £60.40 £47.38 -
25th Percentile £70.50 £53.53 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £57.53 -
Median % change year-on-year +39.07% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.08 -
90th Percentile £101.10 £71.98 -
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £71.00 £55.33 -
% change year-on-year +28.33% - -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM 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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Luton 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:

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