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 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 108 117
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +65
Contract jobs citing IBM 40 24 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.61% 0.91% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 3.55% 1.99% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 21
10th Percentile £315 £328 £330
25th Percentile £406 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £374 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -25.20% -
75th Percentile £488 £435 £550
90th Percentile £656 £500 £606
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.18% +7.69% +18.18%

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 1,127 1,204 1,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.41% 45.49% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 835 1,042
10th Percentile £208 £259 £207
25th Percentile £325 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £574 £600 £594
90th Percentile £648 £683 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 40 40
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.66 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £13.19 £15.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.98% -29.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £31.00 £33.56 £65.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.13 £93.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

IBM
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 2 August 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 2 August 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 0 24 £475 +27.01% 27
East Midlands +8 16 £415 - 15
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 3 (7.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) AWS
2 14 (35.00%) GCP
3 12 (30.00%) Azure
4 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (2.50%) DSL
2 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) DataStage
2 4 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.50%) DB2
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 4 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (7.50%) JIRA
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Identity Management Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) ETL Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Software Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) Consultant
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) Software Licensing Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Software Licensing Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Administrator
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Support
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (32.50%) Hibernate
1 13 (32.50%) LDAP
1 13 (32.50%) OAuth
1 13 (32.50%) OpenID
1 13 (32.50%) SAML
1 13 (32.50%) Spring
2 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.50%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) IVR
3 1 (2.50%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (22.50%) Linux
2 8 (20.00%) Unix
3 4 (10.00%) AIX
3 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (27.50%) RBAC
3 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (22.50%) DevSecOps
3 9 (22.50%) Identity Access Management
3 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (20.00%) ETL
5 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (15.00%) ITIL
6 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 4 (10.00%) Analytics
7 4 (10.00%) Asset Management
7 4 (10.00%) Service Management
7 4 (10.00%) Software Asset Management
7 4 (10.00%) Storage Management
8 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (7.50%) Data Governance
8 3 (7.50%) Data Transformation
8 3 (7.50%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Java
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.00%) Python
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) GDPR
1 11 (27.50%) HIPAA
2 6 (15.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 8 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (10.00%) Tivoli
3 4 (10.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
5 1 (2.50%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Kibana
5 1 (2.50%) logstash
5 1 (2.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) Ping Identity
3 9 (22.50%) Oracle
4 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (10.00%) VMware
5 3 (7.50%) Adobe
5 3 (7.50%) Cognos
6 2 (5.00%) Dell
6 2 (5.00%) HP
7 1 (2.50%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (2.50%) Blue Prism
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Software AG
7 1 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (2.50%) UiPath
7 1 (2.50%) webMethods