IBM UrbanCode Contract Job Trends

IBM UrbanCode
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IBM UrbanCode skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 576 559 598
Rank change year-on-year -17 +39 +191
Contract jobs citing IBM UrbanCode 5 5 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.014% 0.031%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.091% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 14
10th Percentile - £201 £474
25th Percentile £463 £244 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £434 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -33.24% +10.17%
75th Percentile £488 £611 £770
90th Percentile - £631 £782
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £625
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

All Development Application Skills
UK

IBM UrbanCode falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

IBM UrbanCode
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM UrbanCode relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IBM UrbanCode job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

IBM UrbanCode
Top 2 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 UrbanCode within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -37 5 £475 +9.47% 1
London -2 2 - -

IBM UrbanCode
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) CICS Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) z/OS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Node.js
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (60.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) zOS
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Lean Manufacturing
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Assembly Language
1 3 (60.00%) COBOL
1 3 (60.00%) HLASM
1 3 (60.00%) JCL
1 3 (60.00%) REXX
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Rancher
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow