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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 165 191
Rank change year-on-year +37 +26 -39
Contract jobs citing IBM 31 40 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 0.72% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.96% 1.52% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 20
10th Percentile £152 £358 £337
25th Percentile £154 £433 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -67.27% +4.76% +10.76%
75th Percentile £438 £613 £647
90th Percentile £545 £693 £689
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 0
10th Percentile - £23.18 -
25th Percentile - £23.81 -
Median hourly rate £24.18 £25.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% - -
75th Percentile £24.66 £27.81 -
90th Percentile £60.14 £28.53 -
England median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £45.29
% change year-on-year -65.46% +54.57% +5.09%

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 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Surrey +33 19 £163 -57.11% 5
Thames Valley +43 7 £575 -0.43% 5
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £550 - 1
Berkshire +30 3 £600 -11.11% 4
West Sussex +8 2 £525 +46.65% 1
Hampshire +2 1 - - 21
Kent - 1 £193 - 3
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 2
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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 2 (6.45%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
2 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.23%) IaaS
2 1 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.23%) PaaS
2 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) FTP
1 1 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) OLAP
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle OLAP
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.23%) DataStage
4 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.23%) GIS
4 1 (3.23%) Metadata
General
1 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.81%) Finance
3 7 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
5 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) Server Engineer
2 9 (29.03%) Support Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Break Fix Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Server Support
3 7 (22.58%) Server Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (6.45%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.45%) Data Technician
4 2 (6.45%) Developer
4 2 (6.45%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (6.45%) Hardware Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Hardware Support Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.45%) IT Support
4 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.23%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) .NET
1 2 (6.45%) XML
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) EDI
2 1 (3.23%) EntireX
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) MSMQ
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (3.23%) SOAP
2 1 (3.23%) WCF
2 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
3 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.23%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Windows
2 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (51.61%) Customer Service
2 13 (41.94%) Break/Fix
3 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Time Management
5 4 (12.90%) Data Management
6 3 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
6 3 (9.68%) ETL
6 3 (9.68%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (9.68%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.45%) Agile
7 2 (6.45%) Decision-Making
7 2 (6.45%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (6.45%) Programme Management
7 2 (6.45%) Project Management
7 2 (6.45%) Roadmaps
7 2 (6.45%) Security Hardening
7 2 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (3.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) Jython
3 1 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Dell Certification
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (45.16%) SLA
2 7 (22.58%) QA
3 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) SCOM
2 1 (3.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Dell
1 19 (61.29%) HP
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Dynatrace
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) SAP
4 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.23%) Software AG
5 1 (3.23%) Talend
5 1 (3.23%) VMware
5 1 (3.23%) webMethods