IBM Contracts in Milton Keynes

IBM
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 4 July 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
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 40 62
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 3.05% 1.12% 1.34%
As % of the Vendors category 6.00% 2.45% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile £450 - £364
25th Percentile £488 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £388
Median % change year-on-year - +41.94% -35.42%
75th Percentile - - £400
90th Percentile - - £418
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £550 £388
% change year-on-year - +41.94% -32.61%

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 100 163 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 50.76% 45.79% 45.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 118 280
10th Percentile £313 £202 £274
25th Percentile £343 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -7.32% +6.77%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £585
90th Percentile £600 £575 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £450 £465 £510
% change year-on-year -3.23% -8.82% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 4
10th Percentile £13.92 £18.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.90 £21.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.43 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +80.03% +19.45%
75th Percentile £19.25 £48.75 £14.87
90th Percentile £40.30 - £17.20
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.51 £16.40
% change year-on-year -39.59% +43.32% +39.28%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) FTP
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (50.00%) OLAP
3 2 (33.33%) MySQL
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (16.67%) Big Data
4 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 3 (50.00%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) EDI
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) MSMQ
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) SOAP
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (50.00%) ETL
1 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) ActionScript
3 1 (16.67%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) SAP