IBM Certification Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - +155
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% - 0.004%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.22% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £295
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.36%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £568 £450 £325
% change year-on-year +26.11% +38.46% -25.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

IBM Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM Certification.

IBM Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IBM Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

IBM Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 4 (66.67%) Security Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) zOS
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Security Auditing
1 4 (66.67%) Security Management
2 2 (33.33%) B2B
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
3 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Key Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) ActionScript
1 2 (33.33%) ActionScript 2.0
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Korn
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) RACF
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Nagios
2 1 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk