IBM Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

IBM
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 6 November 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.48% - 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.86% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £333 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.65%
75th Percentile £373 - £538
90th Percentile £374 - -
South West median daily rate £513 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -14.58% +6.62% -6.21%

All Vendors
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 245 330 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 51.69% 57.29% 53.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 233 323
10th Percentile £411 £356 £300
25th Percentile £525 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £649 £625
90th Percentile £725 £693 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 19
10th Percentile £15.39 - £14.36
25th Percentile £20.66 - £40.85
Median hourly rate £24.00 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.60%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £50.00
90th Percentile £25.09 - £58.00
South West median hourly rate £23.58 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.07% +22.73% -15.38%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

IBM job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing IBM

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing IBM

IBM
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Salisbury - 3 - - 1
Chippenham - 2 - -
IBM
South West

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure AKS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Sentinel
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) DWDM
2 2 (28.57%) SDH
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (42.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) TOGAF
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Log Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) RBAC
2 3 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) ArchiMate
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Boundary Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Certification
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) CISM
3 3 (42.86%) CISSP
3 3 (42.86%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
4 2 (28.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
2 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Juniper
2 2 (28.57%) Nokia
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto