IBM Sterling Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM Sterling
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of IBM Sterling products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Sterling 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 IBM Sterling Order Management (formerly Yantra).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Sterling 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.064% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
UK median daily rate £481 £500 -
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

IBM Sterling 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

IBM Sterling
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Sterling in the UK excluding London

IBM Sterling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Sterling in the UK excluding London

IBM Sterling
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM Sterling in the UK excluding London

IBM Sterling
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 Sterling 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
North of England - 4 £450 -
Yorkshire - 3 £400 -
North West - 1 £500 -
IBM Sterling
UK

IBM Sterling
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (50.00%) SSH
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) B2B
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) API Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
2 1 (25.00%) Data Security
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) ActionScript
1 3 (75.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk