IBM Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

IBM
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 13 December 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
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 28 20
Rank change year-on-year -42 -8 +38
Contract jobs citing IBM 14 22 31
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.02% 6.25% 8.56%
As % of the Vendors category 3.90% 11.40% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £419 £406 £447
25th Percentile £450 £480 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £600 £479
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +25.33% -1.79%
75th Percentile - - £591
90th Percentile £584 £623 £609
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £600 £479
% change year-on-year -18.83% +25.33% -1.79%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 359 193 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.80% 54.83% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 114 91
10th Percentile £314 £230 £388
25th Percentile £403 £429 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £529 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -9.95% +11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £650 £690 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.57% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile - £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +90.43%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Sheffield

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Sheffield

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (14.29%) CICS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
1 5 (35.71%) NAS
1 5 (35.71%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) FCoE
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) Multicast
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Programmer
1 2 (14.29%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (14.29%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Management Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Storage Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Subject Matter Expert
2 1 (7.14%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ISPF
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 6 (42.86%) Replication
3 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe
4 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (14.29%) AS400
6 1 (7.14%) Clustering
6 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) zOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) MVS
2 1 (7.14%) Solaris
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) High Availability
3 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Storage Management
7 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
7 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
7 1 (7.14%) Incident Response
7 1 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
7 1 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (7.14%) Server Virtualisation
7 1 (7.14%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) JCL
2 1 (7.14%) Assembly Language
2 1 (7.14%) CLIST
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) REXX
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.14%) KVM
2 1 (7.14%) SRDF
2 1 (7.14%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (7.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) EMC
1 5 (35.71%) NetApp
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Pure Storage
2 1 (7.14%) VMware