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 25 March 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
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +23
Contract jobs citing IBM 47 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.63% 1.21% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 3.43% 2.50% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 14
10th Percentile £291 £415 £365
25th Percentile £306 £455 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £460 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -10.24% +13.89%
75th Percentile £402 £488 £613
90th Percentile £438 £501 £746
England median daily rate £450 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -9.55% -9.55% +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 1,370 640 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.60% 48.41% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 900 432 547
10th Percentile £300 £200 £240
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.93%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £689 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.14% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 25 56
10th Percentile £15.78 £12.25 £11.09
25th Percentile £20.19 £18.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £25.08 £20.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.38% +8.11% +4.40%
75th Percentile £37.19 £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £35.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.10
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.48% -31.20%

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

IBM
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 25 March 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 25 March 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 - 23 £316 -
Warwickshire -17 8 £413 -13.16% 4
Birmingham -23 6 £413 - 2
Shropshire -43 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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 5 (10.64%) Anypoint
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 34 (72.34%) AWS
2 21 (44.68%) Azure
3 14 (29.79%) Datadog
4 2 (4.26%) Azure API Management
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (4.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.91%) VSAN
2 5 (10.64%) HTTPS
3 4 (8.51%) SAN
4 1 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (2.13%) NAS
4 1 (2.13%) SMS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) Selenium
2 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 7 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (68.09%) Analyst
2 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 22 (46.81%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Administrator
5 3 (6.38%) AIX Administrator
5 3 (6.38%) Server Administrator
6 2 (4.26%) Integration Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Lead
6 2 (4.26%) Maximo Tester
6 2 (4.26%) Tester
7 1 (2.13%) Backup Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) IBM Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) Performance Tester
7 1 (2.13%) SAN Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) SAN Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) Storage Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) Storage and Backup Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 32 (68.09%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (40.43%) Replication
3 5 (10.64%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.38%) Clustering
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.13%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 32 (68.09%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Unix
3 4 (8.51%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) Agile
2 15 (31.91%) Ticket Management
3 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (14.89%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) Data Privacy
5 5 (10.64%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (8.51%) Data Centre Operations
6 4 (8.51%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.51%) Migration
6 4 (8.51%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (8.51%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (6.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (6.38%) ITIL
7 3 (6.38%) Process Improvement
7 3 (6.38%) Security Hardening
7 3 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (6.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.51%) Python
2 3 (6.38%) Perl
3 2 (4.26%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) Bash
4 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.89%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (8.51%) Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
System Software
1 28 (59.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 28 (59.57%) vSphere
2 18 (38.30%) GPFS
2 18 (38.30%) NFS
3 15 (31.91%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (8.51%) Firmware
5 3 (6.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 28 (59.57%) vRealize
2 15 (31.91%) VxRail
3 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (63.83%) Cisco
2 29 (61.70%) VMware
3 18 (38.30%) Oracle
3 18 (38.30%) ServiceNow
4 14 (29.79%) AppDynamics
4 14 (29.79%) Commvault
4 14 (29.79%) SolarWinds
5 12 (25.53%) Dell
5 12 (25.53%) HP
6 5 (10.64%) Axway
6 5 (10.64%) IBM Sterling
6 5 (10.64%) MuleSoft
7 2 (4.26%) Guidewire
8 1 (2.13%) Brocade
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft