IBM Contracts in the Thames Valley

IBM
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 95 138 139
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.26% 0.41%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 0.54% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 7
10th Percentile £555 - £356
25th Percentile £563 £550 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £578 £675
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -14.44% +28.57%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £694
90th Percentile £595 £701 £700
South East median daily rate £180 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -67.27% +4.76% +10.76%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 794 1,287 1,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 52.55% 47.92% 48.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 799 975
10th Percentile £350 £205 £300
25th Percentile £441 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% +3.90%
75th Percentile £627 £600 £619
90th Percentile £695 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 47
10th Percentile - £16.25 £18.08
25th Percentile £14.20 £22.59 £23.50
Median hourly rate £24.66 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.03% +7.14% +276.92%
75th Percentile £46.30 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £67.50 £63.29 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +17 4 £550 - 4
Berkshire +30 3 £600 -11.11% 6
IBM
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) IaaS
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) PaaS
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) OLAP
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Electronics
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modeller
1 2 (28.57%) Finance Modeller
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Data Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) EDI
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) WCF
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) B2B
3 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) ActionScript
3 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Dynatrace
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) VMware