IBM Sterling Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Sterling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of IBM Sterling products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Sterling 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 IBM Sterling Order Management (formerly Yantra).

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 339 476
Rank change year-on-year +40 +137 +147
Contract jobs citing IBM Sterling 5 6 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.039% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.092% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £354 £380 -
25th Percentile £360 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile £442 - -
UK median daily rate £481 £500 -
% change year-on-year -3.80% - -

All Vendors
Work from Home

IBM Sterling 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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

IBM Sterling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

IBM Sterling
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 Sterling.

IBM Sterling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Sterling
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 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (60.00%) SSH
3 2 (40.00%) SSL
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) B2B
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) High Availability
2 3 (60.00%) Key Management
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Cryptography
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 5 (100.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Korn
3 1 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk