IBM Guardium Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

IBM Security Guardium
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IBM Guardium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Guardium 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.030% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £266 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 - -
75th Percentile £297 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 - -

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

IBM Guardium falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 528 234 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.70% 10.89% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 149 212
10th Percentile £213 £185 £188
25th Percentile £402 £315 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +15.29% -11.90%
75th Percentile £571 £575 £538
90th Percentile £646 £672 £675
England median daily rate £505 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.95% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile - £12.18 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.25 £12.94 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £16.19 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +122.36% -8.63% -11.40%
75th Percentile £77.25 £17.89 £36.36
90th Percentile £77.40 £18.13 £47.54
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +16.80%

IBM Guardium
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

IBM Guardium job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IBM Guardium
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Guardium within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
West Midlands - 1 £282 - 1
IBM Guardium
England

IBM Guardium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable