IBM Contracts in the North of England

IBM
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 98 161
Rank change year-on-year -12 +63 +31
Contract jobs citing IBM 55 87 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.67% 1.88% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 3.30% 4.44% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 61 32
10th Percentile £358 £400 £290
25th Percentile £376 £407 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £535 £507 £616
90th Percentile £643 £588 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,667 1,960 2,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.47% 42.36% 40.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,140 1,527
10th Percentile £230 £257 £231
25th Percentile £367 £398 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.31%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £593
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.13% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 214 67
10th Percentile £13.60 £10.95 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.53 £18.27
Median hourly rate £29.58 £15.09 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.06% -59.77% +100.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £23.64 £46.03
90th Percentile £86.00 £45.88 £52.47
England median hourly rate £26.34 £22.08 £37.50
% change year-on-year +19.30% -41.13% +75.23%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
North West +20 25 £398 -26.16% 21
Yorkshire -24 25 £481 +11.92% 25
North East +1 5 £419 +4.69% 1
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.45%) SAS
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 2 (3.64%) IIS
3 2 (3.64%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.82%) Apache
4 1 (1.82%) CICS
4 1 (1.82%) CMS
4 1 (1.82%) IBM Domino
4 1 (1.82%) JBoss
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 9 (16.36%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) GCP
4 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.64%) Collibra
5 2 (3.64%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (3.64%) npm
5 2 (3.64%) Nutanix
5 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (1.82%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.45%) HTTPS
2 2 (3.64%) Calico
2 2 (3.64%) DHCP
2 2 (3.64%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) SSH
2 2 (3.64%) SSL
3 1 (1.82%) DWDM
3 1 (1.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) Network Security
3 1 (1.82%) SMS
3 1 (1.82%) SNA
3 1 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.82%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) DB2
2 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.82%) Big Data
3 1 (1.82%) Easytrieve
3 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.82%) Metadata
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (1.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Jenkins
1 4 (7.27%) JIRA
2 3 (5.45%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (3.64%) Git
3 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 2 (3.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) ERwin
4 1 (1.82%) Hudson
General
1 15 (27.27%) Banking
2 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Billing
6 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Architect
2 9 (16.36%) Consultant
3 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (9.09%) Senior
3 5 (9.09%) Software Consultant
4 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 4 (7.27%) Senior Consultant
4 4 (7.27%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Programmer
5 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.45%) Systems Programmer
5 3 (5.45%) z/OS Systems Programmer
6 2 (3.64%) Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (3.64%) Lead
6 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Software Manager
6 2 (3.64%) z/OS Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) ISPF
2 4 (7.27%) EntireX
2 4 (7.27%) Middleware
3 3 (5.45%) Kafka
4 2 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (3.64%) RESTful
4 2 (3.64%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.82%) CSS
5 1 (1.82%) Hibernate
5 1 (1.82%) HTML
5 1 (1.82%) JAX-WS
5 1 (1.82%) JMS
5 1 (1.82%) jQuery
5 1 (1.82%) JSON
5 1 (1.82%) JSP
5 1 (1.82%) Servlets
5 1 (1.82%) SOAP
5 1 (1.82%) Spring MVC
5 1 (1.82%) Struts
5 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Mainframe
2 11 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (12.73%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.27%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (7.27%) Replication
5 3 (5.45%) Clustering
6 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.82%) EMC VNX
7 1 (1.82%) IBM XIV
7 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.82%) MISP
7 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.82%) Linux
2 9 (16.36%) Windows
2 9 (16.36%) zOS
3 5 (9.09%) Solaris
3 5 (9.09%) Unix
4 4 (7.27%) HPUX
4 4 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) AIX
5 2 (3.64%) Android
5 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.64%) CentOS
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (14.55%) Agile
2 8 (14.55%) DevOps
2 8 (14.55%) Disaster Recovery
2 8 (14.55%) Project Delivery
2 8 (14.55%) Validation
3 7 (12.73%) High Availability
3 7 (12.73%) Roadmaps
4 6 (10.91%) Migration
5 5 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.27%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (7.27%) Change Management
6 4 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (7.27%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.27%) ITIL
6 4 (7.27%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (7.27%) Planning and Forecasting
7 3 (5.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.55%) JCL
2 7 (12.73%) REXX
3 6 (10.91%) Python
4 4 (7.27%) CLIST
5 3 (5.45%) ActionScript
5 3 (5.45%) ActionScript 2.0
5 3 (5.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.64%) Assembly Language
6 2 (3.64%) Bash
6 2 (3.64%) COBOL
6 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.64%) SQL
7 1 (1.82%) C
7 1 (1.82%) Java
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) Korn
7 1 (1.82%) Perl
7 1 (1.82%) Ruby
7 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) IBM Certification
4 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.64%) QA
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
3 4 (7.27%) Docker
4 3 (5.45%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.82%) ACF2
6 1 (1.82%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (1.82%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 5 (9.09%) Ansible
1 5 (9.09%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Kubernetes
2 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.45%) Grafana
3 3 (5.45%) Nagios
4 2 (3.64%) CA Endevor
4 2 (3.64%) Istio
4 2 (3.64%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (3.64%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.64%) SCOM
4 2 (3.64%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.82%) Control-M
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.82%) Nessus
5 1 (1.82%) OpenVAS
5 1 (1.82%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) QRadar
5 1 (1.82%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (1.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) HP
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) AppDynamics
2 4 (7.27%) Dell
2 4 (7.27%) IBM Sterling
2 4 (7.27%) Software AG
2 4 (7.27%) Splunk
2 4 (7.27%) Sun
2 4 (7.27%) webMethods
3 3 (5.45%) Unisys
3 3 (5.45%) VMware
4 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.82%) ArcSight
5 1 (1.82%) Broadcom
5 1 (1.82%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.82%) Imperva
5 1 (1.82%) Qualys
5 1 (1.82%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow