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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 89 98
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 +50
Contract jobs citing IBM 24 17 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.31% 0.89% 1.26%
As % of the Vendors category 2.59% 1.93% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 16
10th Percentile £344 £328 £463
25th Percentile £450 £356 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £374 £538
Median % change year-on-year +53.74% -30.42% +7.50%
75th Percentile £706 £425 £575
90th Percentile £725 £449 £697
England median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -8.70%

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 925 879 1,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.55% 46.26% 50.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 583 649
10th Percentile £235 £250 £219
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £624 £600
90th Percentile £639 £713 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 17
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £28.11 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +34.33%
75th Percentile £46.63 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Birmingham +3 6 £538 +19.44% 9
Coventry - 6 £425 - 3
Warwickshire -1 5 £650 - 4
Worcestershire - 3 - - 3
Solihull - 2 £569 -
Shropshire -30 1 £325 -12.16% 6
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 2 (8.33%) FileNet
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (8.33%) IBM Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.33%) PaaS
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DSL
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) DataStage
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) DB2
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) Software Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Azure Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) ETL Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Software Licensing Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Software Licensing Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Cognos Support
4 2 (8.33%) DataStage Developer
4 2 (8.33%) DataStage ETL Developer
4 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Platform Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Flash
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (16.67%) Replication
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) IVR
3 1 (4.17%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (25.00%) ETL
3 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
3 5 (20.83%) Software Asset Management
4 4 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (16.67%) Software Licensing
5 3 (12.50%) Analytics
5 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) API Integration
6 2 (8.33%) Coaching
6 2 (8.33%) Data Governance
6 2 (8.33%) High Availability
6 2 (8.33%) Information Assurance
6 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (8.33%) SIEM
6 2 (8.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) CISSP
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) GPFS
1 4 (16.67%) NFS
1 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (16.67%) vSphere
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
1 4 (16.67%) vRealize
2 2 (8.33%) Argo
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) QRadar
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Adobe
3 4 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (8.33%) Cognos
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.17%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (4.17%) Blue Prism
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) Software AG
5 1 (4.17%) UiPath
5 1 (4.17%) webMethods