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 18 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 IBM Sterling Order Management (formerly Yantra).

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 387 430
Rank change year-on-year +30 +43 -
Contract jobs citing IBM Sterling 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.010% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.023% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £525
75th Percentile £375 - £538
90th Percentile £420 - -
UK median daily rate £420 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +19.32%

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 7,224 8,653 10,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.58% 42.50% 45.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,391 5,250 6,942
10th Percentile £220 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £587 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 909 473
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.88 £15.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -12.89% +44.88%
75th Percentile £45.59 £61.30 £58.59
90th Percentile £68.30 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.27% -35.00% +81.82%

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
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 18 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £350 - 1
North of England - 2 £400 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £400 - 1
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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) SSH
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) EDI Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) EDI
2 1 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) AIX
2 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) B2B
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Key Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) ActionScript
1 2 (40.00%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) OpenText
2 3 (60.00%) SEEBURGER
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk