IBM Guardium Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM Security Guardium
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring IBM Guardium skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Guardium 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.042% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £266 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 - -
75th Percentile £297 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 - -

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

IBM Guardium falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 442 190 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.42% 12.26% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 120 142
10th Percentile £268 £185 £191
25th Percentile £420 £344 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +17.65% -15.84%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £525
90th Percentile £653 £689 £650
England median daily rate £505 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.95% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £43.30 £12.18 -
25th Percentile £54.25 £12.94 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%
75th Percentile £77.38 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £26.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +87.38% -43.70% +16.80%

IBM Guardium
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IBM Guardium job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IBM Guardium
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Guardium within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. 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
Birmingham - 1 £282 - 1
IBM Guardium
England

IBM Guardium
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable