IBM Contracts in South Yorkshire

IBM
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 34 6 41
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 +11
Contract jobs citing IBM 14 67 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.75% 14.66% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 7.82% 25.97% 8.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 44 13
10th Percentile £380 £403 £474
25th Percentile £406 £407 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £430 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -28.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £586 £457 £617
90th Percentile £615 £588 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £430 £558
% change year-on-year +19.19% -22.87% +31.18%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 179 258 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.99% 56.46% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 159 145
10th Percentile £150 £231 £192
25th Percentile £358 £407 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +19.44%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £626
90th Percentile £650 £639 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile - £12.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.66 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £14.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -20.99% -2.90%
75th Percentile £18.41 £22.00 £20.11
90th Percentile £18.47 £36.20 £21.54
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in South Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in South Yorkshire

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in South Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in South Yorkshire

IBM
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -25 12 £425 -1.16% 4
Barnsley -2 1 £565 +38.14%
IBM
Yorkshire

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (21.43%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) HTTPS
2 2 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (7.14%) DWDM
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Easytrieve
General
1 3 (21.43%) Banking
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Programmer
1 3 (21.43%) Systems Programmer
1 3 (21.43%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 2 (14.29%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) z/OS Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Software Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) ISPF
2 1 (7.14%) EntireX
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Mainframe
2 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (7.14%) AS400
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) iSeries
4 1 (7.14%) LPAR
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) zOS
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 2 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (7.14%) AIX
4 1 (7.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
1 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
1 3 (21.43%) High Availability
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) B2B
2 2 (14.29%) DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Key Management
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.14%) Cryptography
3 1 (7.14%) Data Security
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL
3 1 (7.14%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Workflow
3 1 (7.14%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) JCL
1 6 (42.86%) REXX
2 4 (28.57%) CLIST
3 3 (21.43%) ActionScript
3 3 (21.43%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (14.29%) Assembly Language
4 2 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (7.14%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) C
5 1 (7.14%) COBOL
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) IBM Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (7.14%) ACF2
3 1 (7.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (7.14%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (7.14%) CA Endevor
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
2 1 (7.14%) Nagios
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (7.14%) Broadcom
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Software AG
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) webMethods