IBM UrbanCode Contracts

IBM UrbanCode
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IBM UrbanCode skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM UrbanCode over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 519 572 694
Rank change year-on-year +53 +122 +61
Contract jobs citing IBM UrbanCode 3 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.035% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.072% 0.29% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £371 £410 £382
25th Percentile £382 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +16.67% -23.73%
75th Percentile £403 £575 £475
90th Percentile £404 £758 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate - £440 £390
% change year-on-year - +12.82% -49.68%

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 4,148 5,128 8,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.24% 12.02% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 3,435 6,035
10th Percentile £338 £354 £384
25th Percentile £410 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 204 236
10th Percentile £25.33 £32.10 £44.62
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +17.04%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.67 £79.04 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -5.38% +5.69% +11.82%

IBM UrbanCode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM UrbanCode in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM UrbanCode in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
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 UrbanCode within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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 +59 3 £400 -27.27% 14
London +42 3 £400 -27.27% 9
Work from Home +38 1 £405 -10.00% 3

IBM UrbanCode
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 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) DataStage
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Payments Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Banking Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks