IBM XIV Contract Job Trends in the North West

IBM XIV Storage System
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term IBM XIV in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM XIV over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM XIV 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 - -

All Generic Skills
North West

IBM XIV falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 879 678 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.78% 31.27% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 364 556
10th Percentile £196 £213 £256
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.98% -4.59% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 36
10th Percentile £16.25 £19.91 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.61 £21.62 £20.38
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.75 £41.87
Median % change year-on-year +43.18% -24.16% +56.97%
75th Percentile £60.93 £33.75 £46.35
90th Percentile £74.26 £63.85 £64.38
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -22.67% -14.04% +24.64%

IBM XIV
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IBM XIV job vacancy trend in the North West

IBM XIV
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

IBM XIV
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 XIV within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 1 £550 -
IBM XIV
England

IBM XIV
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware