IBM Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 397 455
Rank change year-on-year +70 +58 +56
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 9 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.010% 0.029%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.20% 0.026% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
10th Percentile £286 - £321
25th Percentile £400 - £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +38.46% -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - £413
UK median daily rate £568 £450 £325
% change year-on-year +26.11% +38.46% -25.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IBM Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Certification in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IBM Certification in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Certification in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Certification in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Certification within the UK excluding London 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
South West +50 6 £600 +33.33% 4
North of England - 2 £400 -
Yorkshire - 2 £400 -
South East - 1 £193 - 2
IBM Certification
UK

IBM Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Administrator
2 6 (66.67%) Security Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (22.22%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (11.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) zOS
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (66.67%) Security Auditing
2 5 (55.56%) Incident Response
2 5 (55.56%) Security Management
3 2 (22.22%) B2B
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
4 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Information Governance
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Key Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) ActionScript
1 2 (22.22%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) Korn
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) RACF
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk