ICL Contract Job Trends

ICL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of ICL products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ICL over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within International Computers Ltd.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 555 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing ICL 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.018% 0.006% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
UK

ICL falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,890 16,512 21,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 45.00% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,614 9,726 13,552
10th Percentile £283 £300 £259
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.62%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 873 525 675
10th Percentile £15.12 £15.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.16 £19.88
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% -30.64% +75.60%
75th Percentile £40.65 £62.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.55 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -20.30% -36.00% +98.86%

ICL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ICL job vacancy trend in the UK

ICL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ICL

ICL
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ICL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ICL

ICL
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ICL within the UK over the 6 months to 14 November 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 -28 2 £550 - 2
England -26 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 £550 -
Work from Home - 1 £550 - 2
Midlands - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1

ICL
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:

General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) VME
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Fujitsu
1 1 (33.33%) IBM