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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 51 85
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 +16
Contract jobs citing IBM 10 16 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.33% 1.93% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 4.97% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
10th Percentile £340 £438 £399
25th Percentile £401 £614 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +34.88% +19.44%
75th Percentile £584 £747 £650
90th Percentile £679 £764 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +27.78%

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 336 322 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 44.80% 38.80% 45.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 198 385
10th Percentile £301 £363 £263
25th Percentile £378 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £691 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £456 £514 £513
% change year-on-year -11.24% +0.29% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 2
10th Percentile - £13.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £73.75 £14.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £77.50 £15.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +416.67% -21.05% +1.60%
75th Percentile £81.25 £18.27 £21.00
90th Percentile £96.82 £40.00 £21.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £15.09 £21.50
% change year-on-year +70.80% -29.84% +14.97%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -2 7 £566 +5.84% 2
Halifax -8 2 £506 -30.17%
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 1 (10.00%) Confluence
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SNA
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) DB2
2 2 (20.00%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Log4j
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) COBOL Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Adabas Natural Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Management Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Software Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) EntireX
1 1 (10.00%) JDBC
1 1 (10.00%) JMS
1 1 (10.00%) JNDI
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (30.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Replication
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) HPUX
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) High Availability
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (20.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 2 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) COBOL
1 3 (30.00%) JCL
2 2 (20.00%) Natural
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) GCIH
2 1 (10.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (10.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Splunk
1 2 (20.00%) Sun
1 2 (20.00%) Unisys
2 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (10.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Software AG
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (10.00%) webMethods