IBM Contracts in Northern Ireland

IBM
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - -2
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 1.35% - 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 3.17% - 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.82%

All Vendors
Northern Ireland

IBM is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 63 65 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 42.57% 32.02% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 30 38
10th Percentile £200 £155 £232
25th Percentile £475 £174 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -11.11% +9.76%
75th Percentile £635 £526 £500
90th Percentile £665 £588 £544
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.19
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.41
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £13.89
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% +11.59% +32.29%
75th Percentile £23.54 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 -
UK median hourly rate £22.15 £42.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -47.88% +102.38% -6.50%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Northern Ireland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Northern Ireland

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Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
County Antrim - 2 £500 - 4
IBM
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Test Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (50.00%) JCL