IBM Contract Job Trends in Watford

IBM
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 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 the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 7.02% - -
As % of the Vendors category 13.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £481 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
Watford

IBM 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 in Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 30 27 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 52.63% 45.00% 60.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 55
10th Percentile £365 £265 £230
25th Percentile £430 £306 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -32.14%
75th Percentile £575 £493 £622
90th Percentile £611 £527 £728
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £14.31 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £18.82 £67.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -72.12% +8.00% -3.85%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Watford

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) IIS
1 3 (75.00%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (75.00%) DB2
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Consultant
1 3 (75.00%) Maximo Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CAFM
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Facilities Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Korn
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware