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 30 October 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
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.72% 0.33% 3.09%
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% 0.61% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile £438 - £385
25th Percentile £456 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.50%
75th Percentile £531 - £488
90th Percentile £543 - £595
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 - £413
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

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 152 163 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 54.87% 53.97% 54.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 253
10th Percentile £268 £244 £275
25th Percentile £350 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £575 £600 £680
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £463 £525
% change year-on-year -8.11% -11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £17.65 £13.61 £13.17
25th Percentile £20.90 £16.73 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +50.00% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £35.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.37 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £18.25
% change year-on-year +12.80% +43.84% +35.19%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

IBM
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

IBM
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

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

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