IBM Watson Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM Watson
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IBM Watson skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM Watson 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 303 343 469
Rank change year-on-year +40 +126 +141
Contract jobs citing IBM Watson 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.025% 0.036% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £428 -
25th Percentile £663 £450 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £340
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +47.06% -51.43%
75th Percentile £688 £550 £350
90th Percentile - £573 -
UK median daily rate £690 £500 £330
% change year-on-year +37.90% +51.52% -52.86%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

IBM Watson falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

IBM Watson
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

IBM Watson
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 Watson.

IBM Watson daily rate 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow