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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 157 179
Rank change year-on-year +34 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing IBM 30 45 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.01% 0.82% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.92% 1.75% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 25
10th Percentile £152 £350 £378
25th Percentile £168 £362 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £193 £538 £530
Median % change year-on-year -64.19% +1.42% +0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £606 £675
90th Percentile £570 £673 £695
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 0
10th Percentile - £23.18 -
25th Percentile £24.18 £23.81 -
Median hourly rate £24.42 £25.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - -
75th Percentile £28.10 £27.81 -
90th Percentile £106.48 £28.53 -
England median hourly rate £24.42 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -65.11% +16.67% +33.33%

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 1,566 2,578 2,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.66% 47.03% 49.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 1,578 1,914
10th Percentile £225 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £688 £699
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 182 133
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £16.30
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.81 £20.47
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.65%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.25 £66.82 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.61% -40.53% +75.48%

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
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

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the South East

IBM
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

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the South East

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 14 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 +24 15 £168 -55.79% 10
Thames Valley +37 10 £550 -4.76% 13
Buckinghamshire +15 6 £550 - 5
Berkshire +28 4 £588 -12.96% 8
West Sussex +10 2 £525 +48.10%
Kent +4 1 £193 -3.75% 1
Hampshire 0 1 - - 27
East Sussex - 1 £375 - 2
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 3 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Maximo
2 1 (3.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.33%) IaaS
3 1 (3.33%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) PaaS
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) FTP
1 1 (3.33%) HTTP
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%) 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 1 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Banking
5 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Support Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Server Support
3 7 (23.33%) Server Support Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Data Modeller
5 3 (10.00%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Technician
6 2 (6.67%) Data Technician
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Hardware Support Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IT Support
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (6.67%) XML
3 1 (3.33%) EDI
3 1 (3.33%) EntireX
3 1 (3.33%) JSON
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%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) PKI
3 1 (3.33%) Taxonomies
3 1 (3.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Customer Service
2 10 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.00%) Time Management
4 4 (13.33%) Data Management
4 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (13.33%) ETL
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
5 3 (10.00%) Security Hardening
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (6.67%) Agile
6 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
6 2 (6.67%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Migration
6 2 (6.67%) Programme Management
6 2 (6.67%) Project Management
7 1 (3.33%) Contract Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) Jython
3 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) SLA
2 6 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (3.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Dell
1 15 (50.00%) HP
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.33%) Software AG
5 1 (3.33%) Talend
5 1 (3.33%) VMware
5 1 (3.33%) webMethods