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 17 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 87 115
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 +37
Contract jobs citing IBM 17 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.21% 1.11% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 2.66% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 10
10th Percentile £315 £330 £351
25th Percentile £440 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £403 £410
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -1.77% -21.90%
75th Percentile £488 £588 £564
90th Percentile - £711 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -7.08%

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 666 788 1,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.57% 41.69% 47.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 508 679
10th Percentile £173 £224 £206
25th Percentile £313 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -9.09% +4.21%
75th Percentile £591 £602 £600
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £519 £538
% change year-on-year +1.11% -3.40% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 54 29
10th Percentile £12.40 £11.08 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.15 £13.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.32 £16.82 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +8.92% -18.76% +19.82%
75th Percentile £24.43 £26.98 £52.50
90th Percentile £40.95 £52.15 £72.30
England median hourly rate £26.39 £22.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +19.97% -38.89% +67.44%

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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 17 May 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 17 May 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 9 £475 -20.83% 9
Shropshire -4 5 £460 +28.49% 2
Birmingham +4 3 £315 -37.00% 4
IBM
England

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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 4 (23.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
2 2 (11.76%) SSL
3 1 (5.88%) DSL
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.88%) DataStage
2 1 (5.88%) DB2
2 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
2 4 (23.53%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
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%) 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%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Middleware
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.88%) EntireX
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) AS400
2 1 (5.88%) iSeries
2 1 (5.88%) IVR
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Unix
2 8 (47.06%) Linux
3 4 (23.53%) AIX
4 2 (11.76%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Data Transformation
2 4 (23.53%) Storage Management
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Release Management
4 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Use Case
4 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
4 2 (11.76%) Workflow
5 1 (5.88%) Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Data Stewardship
5 1 (5.88%) Master Data Management
5 1 (5.88%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) RPG
5 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 5 (29.41%) Atlassian
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Dell
3 2 (11.76%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (5.88%) Blue Prism
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Software AG
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) UiPath
4 1 (5.88%) webMethods