IBM Contract Job Trends in Surrey

IBM
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 15 November 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 46 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing IBM 2 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.51% 1.97% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 3.75% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £466 - £526
25th Percentile £472 £154 £542
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £158 £675
Median % change year-on-year +208.54% -76.59% +10.20%
75th Percentile £497 £444 £778
90th Percentile £499 £613 £784
South East median daily rate £563 £435 £475
% change year-on-year +29.31% -8.42% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £24.18 -
South East median hourly rate - £24.18 -

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 210 240 373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 53.85% 52.63% 51.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 165 295
10th Percentile £204 £203 £186
25th Percentile £205 £260 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -17.07% +2.50%
75th Percentile £580 £525 £600
90th Percentile £675 £588 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £521 £513
% change year-on-year -4.08% +1.61% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £17.60 £23.01 £37.50
25th Percentile £26.50 £24.18 £43.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £38.59 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.52% -38.75% +40.00%
75th Percentile £90.09 £63.88 £76.53
90th Percentile - £73.85 -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £56.75 £51.42
% change year-on-year -64.75% +10.36% +104.49%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

IBM job vacancy trend in Surrey

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Camberley +1 1 £475 +200.63% 1
IBM
South East

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SOC Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Server Management
1 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) BladeLogic
1 1 (50.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Solarflare