IBM UrbanCode Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM UrbanCode
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IBM UrbanCode skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 - 366
Rank change year-on-year - - +52
Contract jobs citing IBM UrbanCode 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.007% - 0.011%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.068% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.00%
75th Percentile £516 - £738
90th Percentile £521 - -
UK median daily rate £535 £405 £725
% change year-on-year +32.10% -44.14% +20.83%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

IBM UrbanCode falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,926 2,263 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.45% 14.63% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 1,548 1,331
10th Percentile £327 £306 £350
25th Percentile £402 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £627 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 91 152
10th Percentile £36.25 £46.25 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.68 £55.00 £55.49
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

IBM UrbanCode
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IBM UrbanCode job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM UrbanCode
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IBM UrbanCode
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 UrbanCode within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
South East - 1 £475 - 1
Scotland - 1 £500 -
IBM UrbanCode
UK

IBM UrbanCode
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 (50.00%) CICS
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Database Security
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Process Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
1 1 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Broadcom
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace