IBM Guardium Contract Job Trends

IBM Security Guardium
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IBM Guardium skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Guardium 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £381 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £572 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £435 - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

IBM Guardium falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,226 5,254 7,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.88% 13.64% 14.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,430 3,543 5,214
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £688 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £521
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.03% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 63 180
10th Percentile £13.75 £19.96 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.97% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 £75.13
90th Percentile £67.20 £74.35 £78.79
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £39.25 £47.83
% change year-on-year -45.50% -17.94% +122.47%

IBM Guardium
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Guardium in the UK

IBM Guardium
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM Guardium

IBM Guardium
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Guardium over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Guardium in the UK

IBM Guardium
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Guardium within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 - 8 £430 - 3
Yorkshire - 7 £435 - 3
UK excluding London - 7 £435 - 3
North of England - 7 £435 - 3
Work from Home - 3 £425 - 3
London - 1 £425 -

IBM Guardium
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
1 6 (75.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 8 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 8 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 8 (100.00%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (75.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Secrets Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Control-M
1 8 (100.00%) Grafana
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (100.00%) Nessus
1 8 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Tenable
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft