IBM Contracts 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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 17 34
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing IBM 13 44 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.65% 11.20% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 6.81% 19.13% 10.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 11
10th Percentile £370 £406 £463
25th Percentile £400 - £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -28.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £438 £484 £621
90th Percentile £445 £588 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £430 £600
% change year-on-year -1.16% -28.33% +33.33%

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 191 230 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 53.65% 58.52% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 130 107
10th Percentile £185 £385 £400
25th Percentile £356 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.01% -8.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £663
90th Percentile £650 £619 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £449 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.58% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.69 £31.63 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -40.90% +78.47% +5.79%
75th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £20.11
90th Percentile - - £21.54
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.69 £22.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.05% +24.15% -6.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (15.38%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) AWS
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) HTTPS
2 2 (15.38%) SSH
3 1 (7.69%) DWDM
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Architect
1 2 (15.38%) Programmer
1 2 (15.38%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (15.38%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (7.69%) Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Software Consultant
2 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
2 1 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
2 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) ISPF
2 1 (7.69%) EntireX
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Mainframe
2 3 (23.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (15.38%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) AS400
4 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.69%) iSeries
4 1 (7.69%) LPAR
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) zOS
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
4 1 (7.69%) AIX
4 1 (7.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
1 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
1 3 (23.08%) High Availability
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) B2B
2 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) Key Management
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Cryptography
3 1 (7.69%) Data Security
3 1 (7.69%) Project Management
3 1 (7.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JCL
1 4 (30.77%) REXX
2 3 (23.08%) ActionScript
2 3 (23.08%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (23.08%) CLIST
3 2 (15.38%) Assembly Language
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
4 1 (7.69%) C
4 1 (7.69%) Korn
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) IBM Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
3 1 (7.69%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (7.69%) Microcode
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (15.38%) SCOM
3 1 (7.69%) Control-M
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.69%) Nagios
3 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
2 1 (7.69%) Cisco
2 1 (7.69%) Citrix
2 1 (7.69%) Dell
2 1 (7.69%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Lotus
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Software AG
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) webMethods