IBM Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 91 110
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 +45
Contract jobs citing IBM 17 23 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.13% 1.11% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 2.40% 2.54% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 8
10th Percentile £335 £332 £346
25th Percentile £425 £359 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £399 £494
Median % change year-on-year +15.29% -19.19% -12.22%
75th Percentile £488 £504 £583
90th Percentile £623 £677 £627
England median daily rate £506 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +1.25% -1.96% -11.30%

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 707 905 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.01% 43.80% 48.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 604 693
10th Percentile £198 £250 £214
25th Percentile £313 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 23
10th Percentile £13.78 £11.06 £12.87
25th Percentile £22.96 £13.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.95 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.38% -11.33% +34.33%
75th Percentile £42.61 £28.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £91.20
England median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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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 3 July 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
Warwickshire -2 7 £475 -20.83% 13
Birmingham +13 4 £474 +5.28% 14
Shropshire -11 4 £460 +24.32% 4
Coventry - 2 £425 - 8
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) DSL
2 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
2 3 (17.65%) DB2
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) DataStage
4 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.88%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (5.88%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (23.53%) Bitbucket
2 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Cognos Support
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Support
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Support
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.88%) Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.88%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) AS400
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) iSeries
1 1 (5.88%) IVR
1 1 (5.88%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Unix
3 4 (23.53%) AIX
4 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (23.53%) Service Management
2 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
3 3 (17.65%) Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) High Availability
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Application Security
5 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.88%) Conversational UI
5 1 (5.88%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (5.88%) MITRE ATT&CK
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) RPG
3 1 (5.88%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Tivoli
1 4 (23.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) logstash
2 1 (5.88%) QRadar
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) Atlassian
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Cognos
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (5.88%) Blue Prism
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Software AG
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) UiPath
4 1 (5.88%) webMethods