IBM Sterling Contracts

IBM Sterling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM Sterling products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Sterling over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IBM Sterling Order Management (formerly Yantra).

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 716 836
Rank change year-on-year +124 +120 -160
Contract jobs citing IBM Sterling 6 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.015%
As % of the Vendors category 0.033% 0.012% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.83%
75th Percentile - - £638
90th Percentile - - £705
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625

All Vendors
UK

IBM Sterling is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

IBM Sterling
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Sterling in the UK

IBM Sterling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Sterling in the UK

IBM Sterling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Sterling over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Sterling in the UK

IBM Sterling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM Sterling in the UK

IBM Sterling
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Sterling within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Work from Home +136 6 £500 -
England +126 1 - -
London +99 1 - -

IBM Sterling
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 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Java Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Test Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) EDI
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Order Management
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) B2B
3 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
3 1 (16.67%) Coaching
3 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) SAP