IBM Contracts in the North West

IBM
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 96 127 135
Rank change year-on-year +31 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing IBM 24 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 0.36% 0.69%
As % of the Vendors category 2.29% 0.91% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 15
10th Percentile £358 £470 £273
25th Percentile £361 £489 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £495 £325
Median % change year-on-year -22.95% +52.15% -23.53%
75th Percentile £481 £575 £363
90th Percentile £620 £578 £395
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Manchester +31 15 £425 - 9
Cheshire +1 8 £381 -22.09% 5
Merseyside - 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (20.83%) WebSphere
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) CICS
3 1 (4.17%) CMS
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.33%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) npm
3 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Calico
1 2 (8.33%) DHCP
1 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (4.17%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
2 1 (4.17%) tcpdump
2 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) DB2
1 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
1 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Hudson
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (4.17%) Billing
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Architect
1 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
2 3 (12.50%) Software Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Software Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Applications Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.17%) Database Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Management Consultant
4 1 (4.17%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) EntireX
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (4.17%) Ajax
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) ISPF
2 1 (4.17%) JAX-WS
2 1 (4.17%) JMS
2 1 (4.17%) jQuery
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) JSP
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Servlets
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring MVC
2 1 (4.17%) Struts
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (8.33%) Clustering
4 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (8.33%) Replication
5 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.17%) EMC VNX
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (4.17%) IBM XIV
5 1 (4.17%) MISP
5 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Windows
3 2 (8.33%) Android
3 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.33%) CentOS
3 2 (8.33%) HPUX
3 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Solaris
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (4.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Validation
2 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (16.67%) DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
5 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (8.33%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Migration
5 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.33%) SDLC
5 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.17%) JCL
3 1 (4.17%) Ruby
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
3 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.17%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Istio
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Nagios
2 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.33%) ZABBIX
3 1 (4.17%) CA Endevor
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) OpenVAS
3 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
3 1 (4.17%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Splunk
2 2 (8.33%) Dell
2 2 (8.33%) HP
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Software AG
2 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (8.33%) Sun
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
2 2 (8.33%) webMethods
3 1 (4.17%) Adobe
3 1 (4.17%) ArcSight
3 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.17%) EMC
3 1 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (4.17%) Imperva
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Qualys
3 1 (4.17%) Rapid7
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Unisys