IBM Certification Contracts

IBM Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 597 703
Rank change year-on-year +90 +106 +150
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 12 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.007% 0.017%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.13% 0.022% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £302 - £310
25th Percentile £425 - £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year +26.11% +38.46% -25.71%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - £395
UK excluding London median daily rate £585 £450 £325
% change year-on-year +30.00% +38.46% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

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 30 April 2025.

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 8 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 30 April 2025. 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 +72 12 £568 +26.11% 7
UK excluding London +61 9 £585 +30.00% 4
South West +49 6 £600 +33.33% 3
Work from Home - 6 £600 - 2
London +37 3 £550 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £400 -
North of England - 2 £400 -
South East - 1 £193 - 1

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) JBoss
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
1 1 (8.33%) DB2
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Administrator
2 6 (50.00%) Security Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 6 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 1 (8.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) zOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) AIX
3 1 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) Security Auditing
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Response
3 5 (41.67%) Security Management
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) B2B
5 3 (25.00%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) API Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (8.33%) Containerisation
7 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Key Management
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (25.00%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) RACF
2 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) vRealize
2 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (25.00%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) EMC
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) ScienceLogic
4 1 (8.33%) VMware