IBM Contract Job Trends in Reading

IBM
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 6 June 2026, 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
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 55 90
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 -11
Contract jobs citing IBM 29 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.88% 0.57% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 1.00% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £508 £609
25th Percentile - £519 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £575 £675
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -14.81% -1.82%
75th Percentile - £613 £701
90th Percentile - - £710
Berkshire median daily rate £400 £563 £675
% change year-on-year -28.89% -16.67% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 0 0
Median hourly rate £88.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £88.00 - -

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 502 300 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 49.85% 57.03% 49.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 210 328
10th Percentile £303 £350 £213
25th Percentile £424 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -6.98% +4.88% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 3 28
10th Percentile £34.48 £29.90 £14.50
25th Percentile £81.50 £34.63 £52.49
Median hourly rate £88.00 £45.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +95.56% -22.81% -9.86%
75th Percentile - £62.35 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £71.25 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £86.48 £45.00 £58.30
% change year-on-year +92.18% -22.81% -4.23%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Reading

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DMVPN
1 1 (3.45%) LAN
1 1 (3.45%) MPLS
1 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.45%) TETRA
1 1 (3.45%) WAN
Development Applications
1 28 (96.55%) Rational DOORS
General
1 28 (96.55%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Police
2 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (89.66%) Delivery Manager
1 26 (89.66%) Product Delivery Manager
1 26 (89.66%) Product Manager
2 21 (72.41%) Systems Delivery Manager
2 21 (72.41%) Systems Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Engineering Manager
3 3 (10.34%) Requirements Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 25 (86.21%) Product Ownership
2 22 (75.86%) Data Structures
3 3 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 3 (10.34%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 27 (93.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 26 (89.66%) Agile
3 26 (89.66%) PRINCE2
3 26 (89.66%) Programme Management
3 26 (89.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 25 (86.21%) Computer Science
4 25 (86.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 25 (86.21%) Requirements Management
4 25 (86.21%) SysML
4 25 (86.21%) Systems Engineering
4 25 (86.21%) UML
5 23 (79.31%) Change Control
5 23 (79.31%) DoDAF
6 22 (75.86%) Configuration Management
7 4 (13.79%) PLM
8 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 3 (10.34%) Migration
8 3 (10.34%) Performance Management
8 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 28 (96.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (86.21%) Degree
3 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) Avaya
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco
1 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
1 1 (3.45%) VMware