IBM Contracts in South London

IBM
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 32 - 52
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing IBM 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.62% - 0.78%
As % of the Vendors category 3.66% - 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £548
London median daily rate £550 £600 £538
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.63% -7.33%

All Vendors
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 82 86 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 44.32% 35.54% 36.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 107
10th Percentile £310 £185 £180
25th Percentile £478 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -7.62%
75th Percentile - £519 £575
90th Percentile £691 £573 £638
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 5
10th Percentile - £13.29 £16.50
25th Percentile - £13.92 £18.75
Median hourly rate £15.84 £27.01 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.34% +38.49% -57.28%
75th Percentile - £44.95 £52.97
90th Percentile £17.66 £60.93 £58.80
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
% change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in South London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in South London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in South London

IBM
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Bromley - 3 - - 2
IBM
London

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (66.67%) MQSeries
2 1 (33.33%) JBoss
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) IMS/DB
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Swing Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Rendezvous
2 2 (66.67%) Swing
3 1 (33.33%) EJB
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) JDBC
3 1 (33.33%) RESTful
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) AOP
2 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) REXX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Sybase
1 2 (66.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle