IBM Cloud Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 374 361
Rank change year-on-year -105 -13 +55
Contract jobs citing IBM Cloud 3 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.038% 0.023%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.12% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 4
10th Percentile - £401 £345
25th Percentile £919 £415 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £938 £491 £358
Median % change year-on-year +90.84% +37.22% -24.63%
75th Percentile £956 £554 £360
90th Percentile - £572 -
UK median daily rate £938 £500 £360
% change year-on-year +87.50% +38.89% -24.21%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

IBM Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,286 5,097 4,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.26% 32.52% 28.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,258 3,441 3,164
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 504 165 131
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £20.40
Median hourly rate £30.38 £19.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.87% -42.42% +45.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.34 £69.22
90th Percentile £82.25 £66.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.57% -24.86% +6.06%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM Cloud
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IBM Cloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IBM Cloud
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 Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
West Midlands -41 1 - -
Midlands -54 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £938 - 1
IBM Cloud
UK

IBM Cloud
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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Collibra
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Db2
1 1 (33.33%) Dremio
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 12c
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) LangGraph
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Lakehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Data Guard
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Denodo
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) TIBCO