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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing IBM 14 18 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.73% 0.96%
As % of the Vendors category 1.47% 1.54% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 19
10th Percentile £448 - £380
25th Percentile £509 £450 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% +15.79% -17.39%
75th Percentile £592 £633 £700
90th Percentile £613 £712 £703
South East median daily rate £538 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -10.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
South East median hourly rate £103.57 £28.00 -
% change year-on-year +269.88% - -

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 954 1,171 1,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 57.02% 47.80% 50.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 677 1,005
10th Percentile £302 £247 £275
25th Percentile £405 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £613 £625
90th Percentile £653 £715 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 59 53
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.54 £18.08
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.34% -15.56% +172.73%
75th Percentile £44.33 £61.60 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £66.55 £69.55
South East median hourly rate £19.91 £55.80 £45.00
% change year-on-year -64.32% +24.00% +127.85%

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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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 26 July 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
Berkshire +9 8 £563 +25.00% 6
Buckinghamshire +9 6 £550 - 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 3 (21.43%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) Anypoint
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) FTP
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (21.43%) OLAP
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modeller
2 3 (21.43%) Finance Modeller
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) EDI
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Middleware
3 1 (7.14%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) SOAP
3 1 (7.14%) WCF
3 1 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) CSOC
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) CentOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 4 (28.57%) SIEM
2 4 (28.57%) SOAR
2 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (21.43%) ETL
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (21.43%) Security Hardening
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 2 (14.29%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 1 (7.14%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) CEH
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) ECSA
2 2 (14.29%) GCFA
2 2 (14.29%) GCIA
2 2 (14.29%) GCIH
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) VMware