IBM Contracts in South Wales

IBM
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.82% - 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 1.94% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate - - £375
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

All Vendors
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 103 130 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.21% 38.69% 45.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 98 177
10th Percentile £180 £207 £198
25th Percentile £247 £434 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £480 £570 £565
90th Percentile £586 £625 £634
Wales median daily rate £419 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -18.29% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £12.97 £11.00 £16.26
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.95 £17.40
Median hourly rate £22.50 £72.00 £32.78
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% +119.65% +57.98%
75th Percentile £41.25 £87.35 £49.06
90th Percentile - £87.82 £49.63
Wales median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
% change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in South Wales

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in South Wales

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in South Wales

IBM
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales 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
Cardiff - 2 - -
IBM
Wales

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic Portal
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) EntireX
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) JWT
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) API Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) LXC
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Software AG
1 1 (50.00%) webMethods