IBM Contracts 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 4 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 131 170
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 -23
Contract jobs citing IBM 30 72 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.92% 1.26% 0.77%
As % of the Vendors category 1.72% 2.68% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 30
10th Percentile £179 £350 £381
25th Percentile £291 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £684
90th Percentile £613 £666 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -11.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £40.32 £24.45 -
25th Percentile £63.80 £27.00 -
Median hourly rate £103.57 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +269.88% - -
75th Percentile £143.95 £29.00 -
90th Percentile £167.81 £51.20 -
England median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -64.18% -12.50% +45.45%

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 1,741 2,685 2,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 53.57% 46.96% 51.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,584 2,000
10th Percentile £220 £247 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 190 128
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.41 £18.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £20.33 £51.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.52% +14.44% +125.00%
75th Percentile £37.88 £61.30 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.72 £70.00 £71.59
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.30
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.68% +50.23%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the South East

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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 4 July 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 +26 14 £563 +2.27% 57
Surrey +29 8 £181 -52.31% 17
Berkshire +18 8 £569 +7.82% 36
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £550 - 15
Hampshire -5 4 £491 -6.43% 76
West Sussex 0 2 £525 +48.10% 15
Kent -4 1 £193 -3.75% 11
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 5
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England

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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 3 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Maximo
1 2 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (3.33%) AWS
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) IaaS
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) PaaS
2 1 (3.33%) Rubrik
2 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) FTP
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
1 1 (3.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (3.33%) VLAN
1 1 (3.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.00%) IBM InfoSphere
3 3 (10.00%) OLAP
4 2 (6.67%) MySQL
4 2 (6.67%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.33%) Big Data
5 1 (3.33%) DataStage
5 1 (3.33%) DB2
5 1 (3.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.33%) GIS
5 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.33%) Metadata
5 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 7 (23.33%) Finance
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Break Fix Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Server Support
3 4 (13.33%) Server Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Consultant
4 3 (10.00%) Data Modeller
4 3 (10.00%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Hardware Support Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Support
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (3.33%) Data Centre Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) Maximo Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) EDI
3 1 (3.33%) EntireX
3 1 (3.33%) Flash
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
3 1 (3.33%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) MSMQ
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) SAML
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
3 1 (3.33%) WCF
3 1 (3.33%) Web Services
3 1 (3.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) CSOC
3 2 (6.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.33%) AS400
4 1 (3.33%) Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
4 1 (3.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.33%) CentOS
4 1 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 6 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.33%) Data Management
4 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (13.33%) ETL
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
4 4 (13.33%) SIEM
4 4 (13.33%) SOAR
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.33%) Threat Detection
5 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (10.00%) Migration
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) Security Hardening
6 2 (6.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
4 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) Jython
4 1 (3.33%) Perl
4 1 (3.33%) RPG
4 1 (3.33%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) CEH
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) ECSA
3 2 (6.67%) GCFA
3 2 (6.67%) GCIA
3 2 (6.67%) GCIH
4 1 (3.33%) IBM Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.33%) GPFS
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) BladeLogic
2 1 (3.33%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.33%) QRadar
2 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Dell
1 7 (23.33%) HP
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 4 (13.33%) Splunk
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) VMware
6 1 (3.33%) 3PAR
6 1 (3.33%) Brocade
6 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) Mellanox
6 1 (3.33%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) SAP
6 1 (3.33%) Software AG
6 1 (3.33%) Solarflare
6 1 (3.33%) Sun
6 1 (3.33%) Talend
6 1 (3.33%) webMethods