IBM Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 13 May 2026, 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
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 82 90
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing IBM 34 16 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.09% 1.17% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.42% 2.44% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 16
10th Percentile £307 £414 £330
25th Percentile £382 £455 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £460 £403
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +14.21% -16.31%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £588
90th Percentile £555 £501 £711
England median daily rate £473 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.50% -4.76% -

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,405 655 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.90% 47.85% 42.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 941 416 512
10th Percentile £306 £178 £233
25th Percentile £400 £318 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +7.61% -8.72%
75th Percentile £550 £589 £620
90th Percentile £645 £663 £706
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 20 53
10th Percentile £19.41 £12.25 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.20 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.32 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +85.51% +8.92% -18.76%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.98 £26.98
90th Percentile £67.84 £32.78 £53.10
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the West Midlands

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM

IBM
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Coventry - 13 £394 -
Birmingham -24 6 £413 - 4
Warwickshire -20 5 £413 -13.16% 3
Shropshire -44 5 £400 -13.04%
IBM
England

IBM
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) Anypoint
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 23 (67.65%) AWS
2 9 (26.47%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.59%) VSAN
2 5 (14.71%) HTTPS
3 4 (11.76%) SAN
4 1 (2.94%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.94%) NAS
4 1 (2.94%) SMS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
2 2 (5.88%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Analyst
2 15 (44.12%) Storage Analyst
3 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) AIX Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Server Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (5.88%) Maximo Tester
6 2 (5.88%) Tester
7 1 (2.94%) Backup Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Performance Tester
7 1 (2.94%) SAN Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 1 (2.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 21 (61.76%) Linux Command Line
2 18 (52.94%) Replication
3 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.82%) Clustering
5 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (61.76%) Linux
2 7 (20.59%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (58.82%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Ticket Management
3 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.71%) Data Privacy
3 5 (14.71%) Integration Patterns
3 5 (14.71%) Process Improvement
4 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (11.76%) Data Centre Operations
4 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) ITIL
5 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (8.82%) Security Hardening
5 3 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (8.82%) User Experience
6 2 (5.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) Perl
3 2 (5.88%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 17 (50.00%) GPFS
1 17 (50.00%) NFS
1 17 (50.00%) vSphere
2 15 (44.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (38.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (11.76%) Firmware
5 3 (8.82%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 17 (50.00%) vRealize
2 7 (20.59%) VxRail
3 1 (2.94%) QRadar
3 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Cisco
1 18 (52.94%) VMware
2 17 (50.00%) Oracle
2 17 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (14.71%) Axway
3 5 (14.71%) IBM Sterling
3 5 (14.71%) MuleSoft
4 4 (11.76%) AppDynamics
4 4 (11.76%) Commvault
4 4 (11.76%) HP
4 4 (11.76%) SolarWinds
5 3 (8.82%) Dell
6 1 (2.94%) Brocade