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 19 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 91 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +35
Contract jobs citing IBM 51 14 23
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.26% 0.84% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 4.25% 1.80% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 9 17
10th Percentile £291 £344 £453
25th Percentile £306 £360 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £420 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -20.00% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £450 £575
90th Percentile £725 £611 £660
England median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -

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 1,199 778 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.24% 46.78% 50.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 768 518 591
10th Percentile £263 £209 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 22
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.18 £17.50
25th Percentile £17.79 £16.42 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +29.67% +32.96%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.31 £26.94
90th Percentile £58.00 £39.13 £41.48
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 - 21 £310 - 4
Warwickshire -2 12 £650 +7.08%
Shropshire -36 4 £400 -4.76% 4
Birmingham -5 3 £625 +38.89% 4
Worcestershire - 3 - -
Solihull - 2 £569 -
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 (13.73%) Confluence
2 4 (7.84%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.92%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) AWS
2 25 (49.02%) Azure
3 14 (27.45%) Datadog
4 2 (3.92%) Azure API Management
4 2 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.92%) IBM Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.92%) PaaS
4 2 (3.92%) Power Platform
4 2 (3.92%) SaaS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.96%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 13 (25.49%) VSAN
2 4 (7.84%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.96%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.84%) DataStage
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.96%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) JIRA
2 3 (5.88%) GitLab
3 2 (3.92%) Selenium
3 2 (3.92%) SoapUI
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 10 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.69%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (7.84%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.92%) Law
8 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.96%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (45.10%) Analyst
2 21 (41.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 12 (23.53%) Storage Analyst
4 5 (9.80%) Software Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Azure Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Developer
5 4 (7.84%) ETL Developer
5 4 (7.84%) Lead
5 4 (7.84%) Oracle Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Software Licensing Manager
5 4 (7.84%) Software Licensing Specialist
5 4 (7.84%) Storage Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) DataStage Developer
6 2 (3.92%) DataStage ETL Developer
6 2 (3.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Maximo Tester
6 2 (3.92%) Tester
7 1 (1.96%) Senior Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.53%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 26 (50.98%) Linux Command Line
2 12 (23.53%) Replication
3 4 (7.84%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.98%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (62.75%) Agile
2 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (17.65%) Migration
4 8 (15.69%) Asset Management
4 8 (15.69%) Ticket Management
5 6 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 5 (9.80%) Decision-Making
6 5 (9.80%) ETL
6 5 (9.80%) Software Asset Management
7 4 (7.84%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (7.84%) Data Migration
7 4 (7.84%) Data Privacy
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps
7 4 (7.84%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.84%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (7.84%) Software Licensing
7 4 (7.84%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (5.88%) Data Protection
8 3 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Java
3 1 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.96%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.80%) Degree
3 4 (7.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.96%) CISSP
5 1 (1.96%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.84%) QA
System Software
1 25 (49.02%) VMware Infrastructure
1 25 (49.02%) vSphere
2 12 (23.53%) GPFS
2 12 (23.53%) NFS
2 12 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (49.02%) vRealize
2 13 (25.49%) VxRail
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
4 2 (3.92%) Argo
4 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 26 (50.98%) Cisco
2 25 (49.02%) VMware
3 16 (31.37%) Oracle
4 14 (27.45%) AppDynamics
4 14 (27.45%) Commvault
4 14 (27.45%) SolarWinds
5 12 (23.53%) Dell
5 12 (23.53%) HP
5 12 (23.53%) ServiceNow
6 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 4 (7.84%) Adobe
7 4 (7.84%) Axway
7 4 (7.84%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (7.84%) MuleSoft
8 2 (3.92%) Guidewire
8 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.96%) Google
9 1 (1.96%) Splunk