IBM Contracts in Manchester

IBM
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 83 105
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 +33
DemandTrendContract jobs citing IBM 27 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.64% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 5.42% 1.10% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 4
10th Percentile £313 £583 £374
25th Percentile £358 £613 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £700 £544
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +28.74% -4.61%
75th Percentile £550 £763 £611
90th Percentile £650 £778 £709
North West median daily rate £450 £495 £544
% change year-on-year -9.00% -9.06% +8.75%

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 498 456 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.68% 38.10% 38.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 282 486
10th Percentile £305 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £612 £602 £588
90th Percentile £701 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 21 22
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £20.00 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.32 £31.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.02% +74.94% -9.13%
75th Percentile £30.15 £60.00 £39.39
90th Percentile £61.50 £97.50 £53.88
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £16.06 £33.00
% change year-on-year +56.57% -51.33% +63.93%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Manchester

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Manchester

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing IBM

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (29.63%) WebSphere
2 5 (18.52%) CICS
2 5 (18.52%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (7.41%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 2 (7.41%) JBoss
3 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.70%) IIS
4 1 (3.70%) iPlanet
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) IBM Cloud
3 4 (14.81%) npm
4 3 (11.11%) IaaS
4 3 (11.11%) PaaS
4 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Calico
2 3 (11.11%) SAN
3 2 (7.41%) SSH
4 1 (3.70%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.70%) SMS
4 1 (3.70%) SSL
4 1 (3.70%) tcpdump
4 1 (3.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) GitLab
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Maven
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (3.70%) CA Release Automation
General
1 9 (33.33%) Banking
2 7 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Maximo Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Software Asset Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Software Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) ISPF
2 3 (11.11%) Middleware
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) EntireX
4 1 (3.70%) LDAP
4 1 (3.70%) OAuth
4 1 (3.70%) OpenID
4 1 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 5 (18.52%) VSAM
3 4 (14.81%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (11.11%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (11.11%) Private Cloud
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
5 2 (7.41%) Replication
5 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (7.41%) Tandem
6 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.70%) MISP
6 1 (3.70%) PKI
6 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) Windows
3 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 5 (18.52%) zOS
4 4 (14.81%) Android
4 4 (14.81%) Apple iOS
4 4 (14.81%) Windows Server
5 2 (7.41%) HPUX
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) DevOps
2 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Project Delivery
5 6 (22.22%) Release Management
6 5 (18.52%) Change Management
6 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (18.52%) Problem Management
6 5 (18.52%) SDLC
7 4 (14.81%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.81%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) Systems Thinking
8 3 (11.11%) Migration
8 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) CLIST
1 5 (18.52%) JCL
1 5 (18.52%) Python
1 5 (18.52%) REXX
2 4 (14.81%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) COBOL
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (14.81%) Docker
3 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) OMEGAMON
2 4 (14.81%) CA Endevor
2 4 (14.81%) Istio
2 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.70%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.70%) Nessus
3 1 (3.70%) OpenVAS
3 1 (3.70%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) F5
3 3 (11.11%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) VMware
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk
4 2 (7.41%) Sun
5 1 (3.70%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.70%) ArcSight
5 1 (3.70%) Broadcom
5 1 (3.70%) Carbon Black
5 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.70%) Qualys
5 1 (3.70%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.70%) Software AG
5 1 (3.70%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.70%) Unisys
5 1 (3.70%) webMethods