IBM Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 254 234
Rank change year-on-year +62 -20 -55
Contract jobs citing IBM 227 216 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.09% 0.89% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 2.53% 2.00% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 138 222
10th Percentile £379 £325 £350
25th Percentile £411 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +7.78%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 5 20
10th Percentile £57.50 £36.07 £17.82
25th Percentile £65.00 £37.67 £36.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £40.62
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +23.11% -16.69%
75th Percentile - £58.75 £54.06
90th Percentile - £71.50 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year +3.70% +62.65% -17.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

IBM is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,958 10,799 12,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.14% 44.55% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,416 7,430 8,392
10th Percentile £205 £206 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 500 647
10th Percentile £11.79 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.74 £13.95
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.26% +105.88% -0.70%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.08 £43.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -48.96% +105.95% -6.67%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +58 83 £430 +1.18% 22
Yorkshire +56 70 £430 -22.87% 4
South West +48 45 £650 +36.84% 22
South East +19 38 £550 +10.00% 20
Midlands +22 24 £428 -5.00% 9
Scotland 0 24 £500 -4.76% 3
West Midlands +34 22 £428 -5.00% 7
East of England +22 13 £473 +136.25% 7
North West +1 10 £495 +52.15% 18
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +11 2 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 4
IBM
UK

IBM
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:

Application Platforms
1 37 (16.30%) SAS
2 12 (5.29%) CICS
3 7 (3.08%) WebSphere
4 5 (2.20%) Confluence
4 5 (2.20%) IBM HTTP Server
4 5 (2.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (2.20%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (2.20%) WebSphere Portal
5 3 (1.32%) IIS
6 2 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.88%) FileNet
7 1 (0.44%) Apache
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) Appian
7 1 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (2.20%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (3.52%) Maximo
2 6 (2.64%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.88%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.44%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.45%) AWS
2 15 (6.61%) GitHub
3 13 (5.73%) Azure
4 9 (3.96%) PaaS
4 9 (3.96%) SaaS
5 7 (3.08%) Apigee
6 5 (2.20%) Kong
7 4 (1.76%) OpenShift
8 3 (1.32%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.88%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.49%) SAN
2 9 (3.96%) DWDM
2 9 (3.96%) PBX
2 9 (3.96%) VoIP
3 8 (3.52%) WAN
4 7 (3.08%) HTTP
4 7 (3.08%) SDH
5 6 (2.64%) SSL
6 4 (1.76%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.76%) Firewall
6 4 (1.76%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.76%) Junos
7 3 (1.32%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.32%) NX-OS
8 2 (0.88%) VPN
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) DNS
9 1 (0.44%) Network Security
9 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.81%) DB2
2 14 (6.17%) IDMS
3 6 (2.64%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.20%) OLAP
4 5 (2.20%) OLTP
4 5 (2.20%) Oracle OLAP
5 3 (1.32%) Data Mining
5 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.88%) Informix
7 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata
7 1 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (10.57%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (6.61%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.17%) Rational Rhapsody
4 13 (5.73%) Git
5 8 (3.52%) JIRA
6 5 (2.20%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.88%) JUnit
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.88%) Subversion
8 1 (0.44%) ERwin
8 1 (0.44%) GitLab
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 75 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.33%) Finance
3 20 (8.81%) Telecoms
4 17 (7.49%) Banking
5 15 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.73%) Electronics
6 13 (5.73%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.29%) Aerospace
8 7 (3.08%) Aeronautics
8 7 (3.08%) Digital Economy
9 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.76%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Automotive
10 3 (1.32%) Aviation
10 3 (1.32%) Billing
10 3 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.32%) Law
10 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.88%) German Language
Job Titles
1 34 (14.98%) Architect
2 28 (12.33%) Developer
3 27 (11.89%) Software Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Embedded Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 23 (10.13%) Storage Manager
6 21 (9.25%) Programmer
6 21 (9.25%) Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.81%) Systems Programmer
7 20 (8.81%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 16 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) Mainframe Developer
10 12 (5.29%) IBM Mainframe Developer
11 11 (4.85%) Lead
12 10 (4.41%) Ada Engineer
12 10 (4.41%) Ada Software Engineer
13 9 (3.96%) Senior
13 9 (3.96%) z/OS Engineer
14 8 (3.52%) Linux Engineer
15 7 (3.08%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.50%) ISPF
2 19 (8.37%) Kafka
3 17 (7.49%) Flash
4 15 (6.61%) YAML
5 10 (4.41%) J2EE
6 9 (3.96%) REST
7 8 (3.52%) Spring
8 7 (3.08%) Middleware
8 7 (3.08%) Spring Boot
9 6 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (2.64%) IBM Integration Bus
9 6 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.64%) Web Services
10 5 (2.20%) JSON
10 5 (2.20%) SOAP
11 4 (1.76%) .NET
11 4 (1.76%) CSS
11 4 (1.76%) HTML
11 4 (1.76%) POSIX
11 4 (1.76%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.43%) Mainframe
2 19 (8.37%) IBM Mainframe
3 18 (7.93%) Data Centre
4 17 (7.49%) ARM Cortex
5 13 (5.73%) LPAR
6 11 (4.85%) DataPower
7 9 (3.96%) Blackberry
7 9 (3.96%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.76%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.76%) NVMe
11 3 (1.32%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.88%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.88%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.88%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 74 (32.60%) zOS
2 67 (29.52%) Linux
3 17 (7.49%) FreeRTOS
4 16 (7.05%) AIX
5 15 (6.61%) Windows
6 13 (5.73%) Unix
7 7 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (2.64%) Windows Server
9 5 (2.20%) Solaris
10 4 (1.76%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.88%) Android
11 2 (0.88%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.88%) HPUX
12 1 (0.44%) MVS
12 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.15%) Agile
2 37 (16.30%) Risk Management
2 37 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
3 32 (14.10%) ITIL
3 32 (14.10%) Software Engineering
4 30 (13.22%) Storage Management
5 26 (11.45%) Problem Management
5 26 (11.45%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (11.01%) Enterprise Architecture
6 25 (11.01%) TOGAF
7 24 (10.57%) Project Management
8 21 (9.25%) Performance Monitoring
9 20 (8.81%) ArchiMate
9 20 (8.81%) Roadmaps
9 20 (8.81%) Software Testing
10 19 (8.37%) Configuration Management
10 19 (8.37%) Cost Management
11 16 (7.05%) BPMN
11 16 (7.05%) Decision-Making
11 16 (7.05%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.31%) JCL
1 62 (27.31%) REXX
2 32 (14.10%) C
3 30 (13.22%) Python
4 26 (11.45%) Java
5 21 (9.25%) CLIST
6 19 (8.37%) Assembly Language
7 17 (7.49%) COBOL
7 17 (7.49%) Embedded C
8 12 (5.29%) Ada
8 12 (5.29%) SQL
9 10 (4.41%) SELCOPY
10 7 (3.08%) C++
10 7 (3.08%) JavaScript
11 4 (1.76%) Perl
11 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.32%) C#
12 3 (1.32%) Scala
13 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (32.16%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.25%) Degree
4 15 (6.61%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (4.85%) HND
7 10 (4.41%) CCNP
7 10 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.76%) JNCIA
9 3 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.88%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.44%) CCIE
11 1 (0.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.20%) Def Stans
1 5 (2.20%) DO-178B
2 3 (1.32%) MISRA
3 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.44%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (0.44%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.44%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.44%) ISO 26262
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.44%) NIST
4 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (26.43%) Time Sharing Option
2 22 (9.69%) NFS
3 17 (7.49%) ACF2
3 17 (7.49%) RACF
4 13 (5.73%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 13 (5.73%) Microcode
5 7 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.20%) Docker
7 4 (1.76%) GPFS
7 4 (1.76%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.32%) Firmware
8 3 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (12.78%) Ansible
2 25 (11.01%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 20 (8.81%) OMEGAMON
4 8 (3.52%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.20%) Netcool
5 5 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.76%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 3 (1.32%) Rancher
7 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.32%) SCOM
7 3 (1.32%) Terraform
7 3 (1.32%) Tivoli Identity Manager
8 2 (0.88%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.44%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.44%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.44%) Istio
Vendors
1 46 (20.26%) Broadcom
2 35 (15.42%) Brocade
3 23 (10.13%) Cisco
3 23 (10.13%) Dell
3 23 (10.13%) Nokia
4 21 (9.25%) CA
5 20 (8.81%) Juniper
5 20 (8.81%) Oracle
6 19 (8.37%) Splunk
7 17 (7.49%) Lauterbach
8 14 (6.17%) Google
8 14 (6.17%) Microsoft
9 12 (5.29%) SAP
10 11 (4.85%) Syncsort
10 11 (4.85%) VMware
11 9 (3.96%) Avaya
11 9 (3.96%) Ericsson
11 9 (3.96%) Ribbon
12 7 (3.08%) Solace
13 6 (2.64%) ServiceNow