IBM Certification Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.079% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
England median daily rate £581 £193 £506
% change year-on-year +201.82% -61.98% +45.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 892 700 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.17% 32.33% 31.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 366 552
10th Percentile £224 £213 £255
25th Percentile £381 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £646
90th Percentile £688 £669 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 55 74
10th Percentile £18.99 £19.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.63 £23.36 £28.73
Median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +81.78%
75th Percentile £65.19 £53.88 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.80 £78.25 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.30%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in the North West

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Certification within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
Manchester - 2 £581 -
IBM Certification
England

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Content Development
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) IBM