IBM Certification Contracts

IBM Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 594 702 851
Rank change year-on-year +108 +149 -166
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 4 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.017% 0.002%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.030% 0.062% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 2
10th Percentile £250 £310 £345
25th Percentile £325 £321 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £438
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -25.71% -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £513
90th Percentile - £395 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £325 £325
% change year-on-year +38.46% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

IBM Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,286 16,254 19,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.54% 27.31% 21.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,174 10,836 12,550
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +4.76% +8.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £743 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £530 £500
% change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 851 780
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.71
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.22 £19.35
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +29.16% +8.01%
75th Percentile £61.58 £67.88 £56.75
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £32.37
% change year-on-year -18.12% +54.46% -11.44%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IBM Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Certification in the UK

IBM Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification.

Daily rate trend for IBM Certification in the UK

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Certification in the UK

IBM Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM Certification.

Hourly rate trend for IBM Certification in the UK

IBM Certification
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +127 4 £450 +38.46% 6
UK excluding London +43 3 £450 +38.46% 4
South West - 2 £450 -
London +99 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £200 - 2

IBM Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AS400 Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Information Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) RPG
3 1 (25.00%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Numerate Degree
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft