IBM Contract Job Trends 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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 44 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +20
Contract jobs citing IBM 4 1 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.67% 0.34% 2.29%
As % of the Vendors category 3.25% 0.65% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £438 - £378
25th Percentile £456 - £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £531 - £450
90th Percentile £543 - £488
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -27.27%

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 123 154 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 51.25% 52.38% 51.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 114 271
10th Percentile £251 £241 £320
25th Percentile £331 £364 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £456 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -13.92% +10.42%
75th Percentile £533 £538 £625
90th Percentile £574 £600 £695
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £450 £530
% change year-on-year -5.56% -15.09% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
10th Percentile £13.46 £17.63 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.16 £21.25 £13.17
Median hourly rate £16.27 £30.00 £13.57
Median % change year-on-year -45.77% +121.08% +10.24%
75th Percentile £18.00 £36.75 -
90th Percentile - £37.50 £16.68
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £30.00 £16.40
% change year-on-year -52.67% +82.93% +26.15%

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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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IBM

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IBM

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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 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (50.00%) OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
3 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (25.00%) MySQL
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) Star Schema
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (50.00%) Finance Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle