IBM InfoSphere Contracts

IBM InfoSphere
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IBM InfoSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM InfoSphere over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 583 680
Rank change year-on-year +60 +97 +140
Contract jobs citing IBM InfoSphere 7 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.007% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.040% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £539 - -
25th Percentile £541 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £200
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +175.00% -68.63%
75th Percentile £597 £575 -
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - £200
% change year-on-year - - -70.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

IBM InfoSphere falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,602 7,561 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.35% 17.43% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,794 5,396 6,757
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £650
90th Percentile £760 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 151 171
10th Percentile £19.52 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.88 £32.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -29.08% +49.21%
75th Percentile £64.13 £53.94 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.93 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.75% -38.31% +57.14%

IBM InfoSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM InfoSphere in the UK

IBM InfoSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM InfoSphere in the UK

IBM InfoSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM InfoSphere in the UK

IBM InfoSphere
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM InfoSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 28 June 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
UK excluding London - 7 £563 - 1
Work from Home - 6 £575 - 3
England +47 4 £563 +2.27% 4
Scotland - 3 - -
South East - 3 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 1

IBM InfoSphere
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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Alation
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) OLAP
2 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle OLAP
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Data Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modeller
1 3 (42.86%) Finance Modeller
1 3 (42.86%) Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Software Asset Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Strategy
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) Informatica
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle