IBM Watson Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Watson
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £518 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £579 - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
UK median daily rate £575 £550 -
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

IBM Watson 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 7,709 4,352 5,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.61% 32.24% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,060 2,981 3,783
10th Percentile £303 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 177 276
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -9.15% -21.56%
75th Percentile £68.92 £34.46 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £60.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Watson in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Watson in the UK excluding London

IBM Watson
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 Watson within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 - 8 £579 - 1
North of England - 8 £579 - 1
IBM Watson
UK

IBM Watson
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
1 6 (75.00%) Azure AI
1 6 (75.00%) Vertex AI
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) Multicast
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) SNMP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Core Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Support
4 1 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) LangChain
1 6 (75.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (75.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (62.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) AI
1 7 (87.50%) Generative AI
2 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (75.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (75.00%) Data Privacy
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 6 (75.00%) OWASP
2 6 (75.00%) Penetration Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (75.00%) SIEM
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (75.00%) Threat Modelling
2 6 (75.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (62.50%) Data Security
3 5 (62.50%) DevSecOps
3 5 (62.50%) Security Architecture
3 5 (62.50%) Threat Analysis
3 5 (62.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
1 3 (37.50%) CISSP
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) IBM
2 6 (75.00%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Arista
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) NetScout
3 2 (25.00%) SevOne
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft