IBM Contracts in West Yorkshire

IBM
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 74 96
Rank change year-on-year +20 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing IBM 8 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.46% 0.30% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 3.13% 0.69% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £523 - £386
25th Percentile £548 - £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £320 £554
Median % change year-on-year +89.45% -42.21% +30.29%
75th Percentile £673 - £650
90th Percentile £704 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £430 £558
% change year-on-year +19.19% -22.87% +31.18%

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 256 435 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 46.72% 43.54% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 265 436
10th Percentile £243 £300 £313
25th Percentile £350 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £627
90th Percentile £650 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 3
10th Percentile £30.43 £12.53 £18.85
25th Percentile £31.76 £13.87 £23.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £14.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +180.34% -55.00% +103.13%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.19 £56.88
90th Percentile £102.00 - £70.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in West Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in West Yorkshire

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in West Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in West Yorkshire

IBM
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds +8 7 £700 +118.75% 1
Halifax - 1 £513 -
IBM
Yorkshire

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SNA
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) z/OS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (12.50%) EntireX
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Clustering
3 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) HPUX
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Solaris
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) zOS
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Business Case
2 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Monte Carlo Method
2 2 (25.00%) Observability
2 2 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
3 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) COBOL
1 1 (12.50%) JCL
1 1 (12.50%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (25.00%) Sun
1 2 (25.00%) Unisys
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) Software AG
2 1 (12.50%) webMethods