IBM Certification Contract Job Trends in Manchester

IBM Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.17% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
North West median daily rate £581 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 311 291 416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.75% 26.97% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 160 275
10th Percentile £305 £294 £225
25th Percentile £400 £373 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £471 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -8.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £624
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £478 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +0.53% -13.64% +7.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 22
10th Percentile £20.15 £26.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.98 £31.25 £19.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +112.50%
75th Percentile £40.38 £42.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.25 £81.38 £73.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +81.78%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in Manchester

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Content Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) IBM