CPLEX Contract Job Trends

IBM ILOG CPLEX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CPLEX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 546 -
Rank change year-on-year -52 - -
Contract jobs citing CPLEX 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.007% -
As % of the Applications category 0.069% 0.084% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £452 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% - -
75th Percentile £682 £738 -
90th Percentile £745 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 - -

All Software Application Skills
UK

CPLEX falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,910 2,378 3,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.01% 7.76% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,700 1,429 1,978
10th Percentile £203 £176 £161
25th Percentile £316 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £356 £350
% change year-on-year +19.38% +1.71% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 197 561
10th Percentile £12.95 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £19.71 £27.35 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.95% +38.48% -40.15%
75th Percentile £29.41 £44.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.10 £77.90 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £27.35 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.53% +40.26% -40.91%

CPLEX
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CPLEX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CPLEX job vacancy trend in the UK

CPLEX
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CPLEX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CPLEX

CPLEX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CPLEX over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CPLEX in the UK

CPLEX
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CPLEX within the UK over the 6 months to 27 February 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
England -79 2 £566 -21.90% 1
London -46 1 £775 +6.90% 1
South East - 1 £358 -
UK excluding London - 1 £358 -

CPLEX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Optimization Problems
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Statistics
2 1 (50.00%) Storytelling
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes