IBM Contract Job Trends in the South East

IBM
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 106 161
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 -17
Contract jobs citing IBM 34 79 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.98% 1.72% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 3.49% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 41 37
10th Percentile £410 £313 £384
25th Percentile £450 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £649 £513 £688
90th Percentile £720 £688 £724
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £28.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -64.07% +7.69% +18.18%

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,791 2,265 2,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 51.44% 49.34% 52.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,369 1,912
10th Percentile £205 £251 £205
25th Percentile £363 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £631 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 114 136
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £14.91 £27.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -65.13% +10.37% +159.80%
75th Percentile £35.89 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £79.25 £70.00 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the South East

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the South East

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Thames Valley +16 17 £525 +16.67% 22
Berkshire +22 13 £531 +18.06% 13
Hampshire -20 7 £538 +27.98% 9
West Sussex -6 6 £720 +103.10%
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £500 - 8
Surrey +6 2 £488 -32.76% 11
Kent -15 1 £193 -3.75% 3
East Sussex - 1 - - 3
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (17.65%) ArcGIS
2 2 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.88%) IIS
3 1 (2.94%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Maximo
2 2 (5.88%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (14.71%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (14.71%) OCI
3 5 (14.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.94%) Azure
4 1 (2.94%) GitHub
4 1 (2.94%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (2.94%) VLAN
1 1 (2.94%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (14.71%) Couchbase
2 5 (14.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.88%) GIS
4 2 (5.88%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (5.88%) OLAP
4 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.94%) Big Data
5 1 (2.94%) DB2
5 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (11.76%) Consultant
3 4 (11.76%) Maximo Architect
4 2 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Data Modeller
4 2 (5.88%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) BizTalk Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) GIS Architect
5 1 (2.94%) NetBackup Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Senior
5 1 (2.94%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) .NET
2 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) EntireX
3 1 (2.94%) Flash
3 1 (2.94%) HTML
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (17.65%) Replication
3 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.88%) CMDB
4 2 (5.88%) CSOC
4 2 (5.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.94%) AS400
5 1 (2.94%) Clustering
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 3 (8.82%) Windows
4 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.94%) CentOS
5 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (26.47%) Asset Management
1 9 (26.47%) Migration
2 7 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
2 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (20.59%) Roadmaps
3 6 (17.65%) High Availability
3 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
4 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (14.71%) Security Patching
4 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (14.71%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (11.76%) Security Operations
5 4 (11.76%) SIEM
5 4 (11.76%) SOAR
5 4 (11.76%) Threat Detection
6 3 (8.82%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.88%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) RPG
5 1 (2.94%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Degree
4 2 (5.88%) CEH
4 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) ECSA
4 2 (5.88%) GCFA
4 2 (5.88%) GCIA
4 2 (5.88%) GCIH
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) GPFS
1 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) SCOM
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) BladeLogic
3 1 (2.94%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.94%) QRadar
3 1 (2.94%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Confluent
1 5 (14.71%) ESRI
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.76%) Splunk
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Dynatrace
4 2 (5.88%) Snow
5 1 (2.94%) 3PAR
5 1 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.94%) Dell
5 1 (2.94%) HP
5 1 (2.94%) Mellanox
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.94%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.94%) Software AG
5 1 (2.94%) Solarflare
5 1 (2.94%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) webMethods