IBM Contracts in the Midlands

IBM
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 110 131
Rank change year-on-year +15 +21 +44
Contract jobs citing IBM 16 23 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.83% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 1.86% 1.94% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 25
10th Percentile £452 £330 -
25th Percentile £455 £358 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £403 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.08% -10.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £550
90th Percentile £501 £711 £583
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the Midlands

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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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +8 15 £460 +14.21% 11
East Midlands +9 1 £480 - 27
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) NetScaler
2 2 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (6.25%) DSL
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (6.25%) DataStage
2 1 (6.25%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (25.00%) GitLab
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Support
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Administrator
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Support
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Development Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Software Development Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Software Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) AS400
2 1 (6.25%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) iSeries
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) Unix
2 4 (25.00%) AIX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 4 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 2 (12.50%) Release Management
4 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (12.50%) Service Management
4 2 (12.50%) Use Case
4 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.25%) BPMN
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analysis
5 1 (6.25%) Data Integration
5 1 (6.25%) Data Migration
5 1 (6.25%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Perl
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) RPG
5 1 (6.25%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) QRadar
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Dell
2 2 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) Software AG
3 1 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (6.25%) webMethods