IBM Watson Contracts

IBM Watson
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Watson skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Watson over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 685 835
Rank change year-on-year +97 +150 -137
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 2 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.030% 0.028%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.014% 0.082% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 23
10th Percentile £428 £263 -
25th Percentile £450 £288 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £330 £700
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -52.86% -26.32%
75th Percentile £550 £363 -
90th Percentile £573 £588 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £325 -

All Cloud Skills
UK

IBM Watson is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM Watson in the UK

IBM Watson
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM Watson in the UK

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM Watson over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM Watson in the UK

IBM Watson
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 Watson within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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 +119 2 £500 +47.06% 5
England +109 2 £500 +51.52% 1
London +91 1 £425 -26.09% 1

IBM Watson
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM