IBM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 188 242
Rank change year-on-year -8 +54 -26
Contract jobs citing IBM 108 172 251
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.12% 0.97%
As % of the Vendors category 2.37% 2.63% 2.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 111 153
10th Percentile £375 £360 £375
25th Percentile £410 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £615
90th Percentile £675 £750 £673
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £25.73 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £30.19 £47.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £39.25 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +71.97% -33.19% +30.56%
75th Percentile £68.75 £49.19 £68.75
90th Percentile - £54.18 -
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -65.46% +3.70% +56.63%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 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 4,552 6,531 11,133
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.92% 42.47% 43.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,969 4,043 7,492
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 217 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.72 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.75 £16.70 £31.81
Median hourly rate £53.50 £32.12 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.59% -41.07% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £71.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
% change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IBM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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.

IBM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IBM over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

IBM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IBM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.26%) Confluence
2 6 (5.56%) CICS
3 5 (4.63%) JBoss
4 4 (3.70%) WebSphere
5 3 (2.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.78%) Documentum
5 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.78%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.85%) IIS
6 2 (1.85%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.93%) CMS
7 1 (0.93%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.93%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.78%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.78%) Unica
3 2 (1.85%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (1.85%) Maximo
3 2 (1.85%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.15%) AWS
2 23 (21.30%) Azure
3 12 (11.11%) GCP
4 5 (4.63%) BigCommerce
4 5 (4.63%) IBM Blueworks
5 3 (2.78%) Alation
5 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (2.78%) OCI
6 2 (1.85%) Azure API Management
6 2 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.85%) GitHub
6 2 (1.85%) IaaS
6 2 (1.85%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.85%) PaaS
6 2 (1.85%) SaaS
6 2 (1.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.93%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.56%) SAN
2 5 (4.63%) HTTPS
2 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.70%) SNA
4 3 (2.78%) SSH
5 2 (1.85%) DHCP
5 2 (1.85%) DNS
5 2 (1.85%) Firewall
5 2 (1.85%) SSL
6 1 (0.93%) FTP
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.93%) NAS
6 1 (0.93%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.56%) DB2
3 5 (4.63%) IBM InfoSphere
4 3 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.78%) OLAP
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.85%) Big Data
5 2 (1.85%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.85%) IMS/DB
5 2 (1.85%) MySQL
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) JIRA
2 5 (4.63%) GitLab
2 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.93%) JMeter
5 1 (0.93%) JUnit
5 1 (0.93%) MagicDraw
5 1 (0.93%) MLflow
5 1 (0.93%) Rational Rhapsody
5 1 (0.93%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (32.41%) Finance
2 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
3 21 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.81%) Banking
5 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.63%) Marketing
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.85%) Private Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Publishing
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Law
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (12.96%) Architect
2 11 (10.19%) Developer
3 9 (8.33%) Senior
4 8 (7.41%) Consultant
5 6 (5.56%) Administrator
6 5 (4.63%) Process Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Analyst
7 4 (3.70%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.70%) Security Administrator
7 4 (3.70%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.70%) Unix Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Data Manager
8 3 (2.78%) Data Modeller
8 3 (2.78%) Documentum Specialist
8 3 (2.78%) Server Engineer
8 3 (2.78%) Software Consultant
8 3 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.78%) Storage Consultant
8 3 (2.78%) Unix Support
8 3 (2.78%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) Middleware
2 6 (5.56%) XML
3 5 (4.63%) Kafka
4 4 (3.70%) .NET
4 4 (3.70%) RESTful
5 3 (2.78%) IBM Integration Bus
5 3 (2.78%) J2EE
5 3 (2.78%) OAuth
5 3 (2.78%) OpenID
5 3 (2.78%) SOAP
5 3 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.78%) WebSphere MQ
5 3 (2.78%) XSLT
6 2 (1.85%) CSS
6 2 (1.85%) EJB
6 2 (1.85%) EntireX
6 2 (1.85%) WCF
6 2 (1.85%) Web Services
6 2 (1.85%) XACML
6 2 (1.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 8 (7.41%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.48%) IBM Mainframe
4 6 (5.56%) AS400
5 5 (4.63%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.70%) Clustering
6 4 (3.70%) iSeries
6 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.85%) Derivative
8 2 (1.85%) Grid Computing
8 2 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.93%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (25.93%) Linux
2 19 (17.59%) Unix
3 18 (16.67%) Windows
4 14 (12.96%) zOS
5 10 (9.26%) AIX
6 7 (6.48%) Windows Server
7 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (3.70%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (3.70%) Solaris
9 2 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.93%) CentOS
10 1 (0.93%) HPUX
10 1 (0.93%) MVS
10 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (19.44%) Agile
3 18 (16.67%) Migration
4 14 (12.96%) Project Management
5 13 (12.04%) DevOps
5 13 (12.04%) ITIL
6 10 (9.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (7.41%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (7.41%) Process Improvement
8 7 (6.48%) Microservices
8 7 (6.48%) Problem Management
8 7 (6.48%) Scrum
8 7 (6.48%) SDLC
9 6 (5.56%) Data Governance
9 6 (5.56%) Data Modelling
9 6 (5.56%) E-Commerce
9 6 (5.56%) High Availability
9 6 (5.56%) Incident Management
9 6 (5.56%) Service Management
9 6 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (18.52%) SQL
2 17 (15.74%) Java
3 16 (14.81%) Python
4 10 (9.26%) JCL
5 9 (8.33%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.48%) REXX
7 6 (5.56%) ActionScript
7 6 (5.56%) ActionScript 2.0
7 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.63%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.70%) Assembly Language
9 4 (3.70%) C#
9 4 (3.70%) RPG
10 3 (2.78%) Bash
10 3 (2.78%) COBOL
10 3 (2.78%) Natural
11 2 (1.85%) C
11 2 (1.85%) C++
11 2 (1.85%) Perl
11 2 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) CISSP
3 6 (5.56%) IBM Certification
4 2 (1.85%) CEH
4 2 (1.85%) GIAC
5 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.93%) CCDE
5 1 (0.93%) CISM
5 1 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) SLA
2 2 (1.85%) GDPR
2 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.85%) NIST
2 2 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.93%) GRC
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.56%) Docker
2 6 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.63%) RACF
4 4 (3.70%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (1.85%) ACF2
5 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.85%) NFS
5 2 (1.85%) Platform Symphony
5 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.93%) Microcode
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.93%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Ansible
1 7 (6.48%) Tivoli
2 6 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 4 (3.70%) Control-M
4 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.78%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (2.78%) QRadar
4 3 (2.78%) Terraform
5 2 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.85%) Kibana
5 2 (1.85%) Nagios
5 2 (1.85%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.93%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.93%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.93%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.93%) Netcool
6 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.93%) TADDM
Vendors
1 21 (19.44%) Oracle
2 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.41%) Dynatrace
3 8 (7.41%) VMware
4 7 (6.48%) HP
5 6 (5.56%) Dell
5 6 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.56%) Splunk
6 5 (4.63%) Broadcom
6 5 (4.63%) Google
6 5 (4.63%) IBM Sterling
7 4 (3.70%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.70%) Informatica
7 4 (3.70%) SAP
8 3 (2.78%) Adobe
8 3 (2.78%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.78%) Siebel
9 2 (1.85%) BMC
9 2 (1.85%) EMC
9 2 (1.85%) Software AG