IBM Watson Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Watson
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for IBM Watson skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM Watson over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 466 598
Rank change year-on-year +124 +132 -106
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 2 8 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.031% 0.047%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.036% 0.079% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 20
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £450 £330 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £700
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -51.43% -26.32%
75th Percentile £550 £350 -
90th Percentile £573 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £330 £700
% change year-on-year +51.52% -52.86% -26.32%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

IBM Watson is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,503 10,093 18,458
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.14% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 7,414 13,803
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 129 172
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.60 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +87.83% -28.13%
75th Percentile £45.31 £70.00 £62.24
90th Percentile £65.31 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

IBM Watson
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Watson as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM Watson trend for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IBM Watson.

IBM Watson daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Watson
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IBM Watson over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

IBM Watson daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IBM Watson
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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Vertex AI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PhD
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM