IBM Contracts in the North East

IBM
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 32 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.88% 0.89% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.90% 2.10% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £386 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £461 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Vendors
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 154 143 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 48.13% 42.31% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 69 106
10th Percentile £216 £163 £200
25th Percentile £328 £335 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £543 £625 £645
90th Percentile £625 £675 £775
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 1
10th Percentile £18.35 £11.18 -
25th Percentile £18.68 £12.72 £48.50
Median hourly rate £35.44 £17.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.49% -64.29% +184.06%
75th Percentile £53.40 £20.77 £49.50
90th Percentile £55.91 £54.47 -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the North East 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
Northumberland - 4 - -
Tyne and Wear -7 1 £463 +15.63%
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) AIX Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AIX Support
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modeller
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Support
2 1 (16.67%) Unix Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) Digital Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lineage
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) ERD
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) VMware