IBM Certification Contract Job Trends 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 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 338 411
Rank change year-on-year -67 +73 +31
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.022% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.097% 0.065% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £521 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.56% -1.11% +38.46%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £581 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +30.56% -1.11% +28.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - £80.00
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 - £80.00

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 7,191 4,624 7,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.27% 34.39% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,579 2,724 4,486
10th Percentile £263 £215 £250
25th Percentile £402 £393 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.35% -5.33% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 866 346 790
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.67 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -7.97% +2.62%
75th Percentile £63.18 £67.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £77.93 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +1.96%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Certification

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 11 February 2026. 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
North West - 4 £581 -
North of England - 4 £581 -
Scotland - 3 £550 - 2
IBM Certification
UK

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Hive
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) e-Learning
1 4 (57.14%) Private Cloud
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) Coaching
2 4 (57.14%) Content Development
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) GAP Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 4 (57.14%) Incident Response
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Service-Level Objective
2 4 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
2 4 (57.14%) Workshop Facilitation
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Google