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 31 August 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
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 102 94
Rank change year-on-year -41 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing IBM 25 22 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.73% 1.25% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 2.59% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 13 11
10th Percentile £371 £335 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £370
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +55.41% -32.73%
75th Percentile £525 £725 £420
90th Percentile £575 - £440
England median daily rate £500 £550 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.65% -7.00%

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 1,556 849 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.15% 48.07% 45.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 550 585
10th Percentile £325 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -3.90% +2.56%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £638 £713
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 26 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.56 £13.48
25th Percentile £17.74 £27.66 £14.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +19.70% +25.31%
75th Percentile £40.03 £48.31 £43.50
90th Percentile £61.40 £50.00 £53.13
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.31%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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
Warwickshire -4 8 £400 -38.46% 2
Birmingham -14 6 £500 -6.98% 4
Coventry -23 5 £356 -16.14%
Shropshire -41 3 £500 +53.85%
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 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Maximo
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SAN
2 2 (8.00%) VSAN
3 1 (4.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) DataStage
2 1 (4.00%) Db2
2 1 (4.00%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.00%) GIS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (8.00%) Finance
1 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Asset Management Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Storage Analyst
3 3 (12.00%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) AIX Administrator
4 2 (8.00%) AIX Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Consultant
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Unix Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Architect
5 1 (4.00%) DBA
5 1 (4.00%) IT Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) SAN Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Server Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Storage and Backup Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Linux Command Line
1 6 (24.00%) Replication
2 4 (16.00%) Clustering
2 4 (16.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Grid Computing
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
2 8 (32.00%) Unix
3 7 (28.00%) AIX
4 5 (20.00%) SUSE
5 1 (4.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 6 (24.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.00%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (16.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 4 (16.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (16.00%) Data Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Data Transformation
4 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (16.00%) ETL
4 4 (16.00%) ETL Development
4 4 (16.00%) ITIL
4 4 (16.00%) Security Hardening
4 4 (16.00%) Ticket Management
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Perl
2 4 (16.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) GPFS
1 6 (24.00%) NFS
2 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (20.00%) vSphere
3 4 (16.00%) Firmware
3 4 (16.00%) PowerHA
4 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) vRealize
2 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (8.00%) VxRail
4 1 (4.00%) Data Guard
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (4.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) SAP
2 6 (24.00%) ServiceNow
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) MathWorks
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (20.00%) Siemens
3 5 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (16.00%) Cognos
4 4 (16.00%) Netezza
5 3 (12.00%) Commvault
5 3 (12.00%) Veeam
6 1 (4.00%) Axway
6 1 (4.00%) ESRI
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft