IBM Contracts with Work from Home Options

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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 knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 242 213
Rank change year-on-year +58 -29 -4
Contract jobs citing IBM 172 251 556
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 0.97% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 2.65% 2.25% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 153 377
10th Percentile £360 £375 £398
25th Percentile £430 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% +12.82%
75th Percentile £588 £615 £631
90th Percentile £750 £673 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £25.73 - -
25th Percentile £30.19 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £39.25 £58.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.19% +30.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £49.19 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £54.18 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £43.10
% change year-on-year +3.70% +56.63% -13.81%

All Vendors
Work from Home

IBM is in the Vendor Products and 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 knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,501 11,159 17,409
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.55% 43.15% 39.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,020 7,514 11,847
10th Percentile £325 £330 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 259 258
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.92 £13.32
25th Percentile £16.85 £32.13 £18.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.27% +57.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £52.44
90th Percentile £70.50 £80.25 £66.23
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IBM trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

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 a work from home option citing IBM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 a work from home option citing IBM.

IBM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IBM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

IBM hourly rate histogram 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 21 (12.21%) SAS
2 20 (11.63%) WebSphere
3 13 (7.56%) CICS
4 11 (6.40%) WebSphere Application Server
5 10 (5.81%) Confluence
6 7 (4.07%) IBM HTTP Server
6 7 (4.07%) WebLogic
6 7 (4.07%) WebSphere Portal
7 6 (3.49%) JBoss
7 6 (3.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (2.91%) IIS
9 4 (2.33%) Tomcat
10 3 (1.74%) Apache
10 3 (1.74%) CMS
10 3 (1.74%) nginx
11 2 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (1.16%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (1.16%) FileNet
12 1 (0.58%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.58%) Weka
Business Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.33%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.16%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.16%) Maximo
3 2 (1.16%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 30 (17.44%) AWS
2 23 (13.37%) Azure
3 14 (8.14%) GitHub
4 9 (5.23%) GCP
5 8 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (4.65%) IaaS
5 8 (4.65%) PaaS
6 7 (4.07%) Nutanix
6 7 (4.07%) Rubrik
6 7 (4.07%) SaaS
7 4 (2.33%) Apigee
7 4 (2.33%) Kong
8 3 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.74%) IBM Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Serverless
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.98%) DNS
2 11 (6.40%) SSL
3 10 (5.81%) Firewall
4 9 (5.23%) SAN
5 8 (4.65%) HTTP
5 8 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.07%) DHCP
6 7 (4.07%) DWDM
6 7 (4.07%) Kerberos
6 7 (4.07%) NAS
6 7 (4.07%) VLAN
7 4 (2.33%) Junos
7 4 (2.33%) SDH
7 4 (2.33%) WAN
8 1 (0.58%) MPLS
8 1 (0.58%) SNA
8 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.86%) DB2
2 12 (6.98%) IDMS
2 12 (6.98%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.49%) MySQL
6 5 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.33%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.33%) OLAP
7 4 (2.33%) OLTP
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle OLAP
7 4 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.74%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.16%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (16.28%) Jenkins
2 20 (11.63%) Git
3 13 (7.56%) JIRA
4 9 (5.23%) IBM UrbanCode
5 7 (4.07%) GitLab
5 7 (4.07%) JUnit
5 7 (4.07%) Selenium
5 7 (4.07%) TeamCity
6 6 (3.49%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.91%) Mockito
8 4 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.74%) HP UFT
9 3 (1.74%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (1.16%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.16%) Subversion
10 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.58%) Appium
11 1 (0.58%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (37.79%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.07%) Finance
3 22 (12.79%) Banking
4 14 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.49%) Front Office
7 5 (2.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.33%) Aeronautics
8 4 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.33%) German Language
8 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.74%) Arabic Language
9 3 (1.74%) Billing
9 3 (1.74%) French Language
9 3 (1.74%) Japanese Language
9 3 (1.74%) Korean Language
9 3 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Spanish Language
10 2 (1.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 31 (18.02%) Developer
2 25 (14.53%) Architect
3 15 (8.72%) Senior
4 11 (6.40%) Consultant
4 11 (6.40%) Programmer
4 11 (6.40%) Systems Programmer
4 11 (6.40%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 10 (5.81%) Mainframe Developer
6 9 (5.23%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 9 (5.23%) Lead
6 9 (5.23%) Middleware Engineer
6 9 (5.23%) Senior Developer
6 9 (5.23%) Storage Manager
7 8 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 8 (4.65%) Mainframe Architect
7 8 (4.65%) z/OS Engineer
8 7 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (2.91%) Applications Support
9 5 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.91%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.70%) ISPF
2 15 (8.72%) Kafka
2 15 (8.72%) Middleware
3 14 (8.14%) Spring Boot
4 12 (6.98%) YAML
5 11 (6.40%) J2EE
5 11 (6.40%) SOAP
6 9 (5.23%) IBM Integration Bus
6 9 (5.23%) Spring
7 8 (4.65%) Web Services
8 7 (4.07%) ActiveMQ
8 7 (4.07%) LDAP
8 7 (4.07%) WebSphere MQ
9 6 (3.49%) Apache Camel
9 6 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (2.91%) REST
10 5 (2.91%) RESTful
11 4 (2.33%) JSON
11 4 (2.33%) XML
12 3 (1.74%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 50 (29.07%) Mainframe
2 20 (11.63%) IBM Mainframe
3 13 (7.56%) Data Centre
4 11 (6.40%) DataPower
5 10 (5.81%) Replication
6 9 (5.23%) LPAR
7 8 (4.65%) Clustering
8 4 (2.33%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.74%) VSAM
10 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.58%) Derivative
11 1 (0.58%) Equities
11 1 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.58%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (31.40%) zOS
2 40 (23.26%) Linux
3 27 (15.70%) Windows
4 12 (6.98%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (5.23%) Solaris
7 8 (4.65%) Unix
8 7 (4.07%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.74%) VMS
10 2 (1.16%) AIX
10 2 (1.16%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (31.98%) Agile
2 28 (16.28%) DevOps
3 27 (15.70%) Risk Management
4 24 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 22 (12.79%) Storage Management
6 20 (11.63%) Migration
6 20 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (10.47%) Problem Management
8 16 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (9.30%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (8.72%) Scrum
10 14 (8.14%) ITIL
10 14 (8.14%) Test Automation
11 13 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (7.56%) Deployment Automation
12 12 (6.98%) Performance Monitoring
12 12 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (6.98%) SDLC
13 11 (6.40%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 47 (27.33%) REXX
2 42 (24.42%) JCL
3 29 (16.86%) Java
4 27 (15.70%) Python
5 19 (11.05%) CLIST
6 17 (9.88%) COBOL
6 17 (9.88%) SQL
7 14 (8.14%) Assembly Language
7 14 (8.14%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.81%) SELCOPY
9 8 (4.65%) Bash
10 3 (1.74%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.16%) C#
11 2 (1.16%) C++
11 2 (1.16%) Groovy
11 2 (1.16%) RPG
11 2 (1.16%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.16%) XPath
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 22 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.40%) Degree
4 4 (2.33%) CCNP
4 4 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.33%) HND
4 4 (2.33%) JNCIA
4 4 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.16%) PMP
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.07%) GDPR
1 7 (4.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.16%) NIST
3 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (24.42%) Time Sharing Option
2 14 (8.14%) NFS
3 13 (7.56%) RACF
4 11 (6.40%) Active Directory
4 11 (6.40%) Docker
5 9 (5.23%) ACF2
6 7 (4.07%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 7 (4.07%) Microcode
6 7 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.58%) Lustre
7 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (15.12%) Ansible
2 20 (11.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 12 (6.98%) OMEGAMON
4 11 (6.40%) Kubernetes
4 11 (6.40%) Terraform
5 9 (5.23%) Tivoli
6 7 (4.07%) EMC NetWorker
6 7 (4.07%) Netcool
7 5 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.33%) zSecure
9 2 (1.16%) Kibana
9 2 (1.16%) logstash
9 2 (1.16%) Packer
9 2 (1.16%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.58%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.58%) Control-M
10 1 (0.58%) Grafana
Vendors
1 39 (22.67%) Oracle
2 28 (16.28%) Broadcom
3 22 (12.79%) Dell
4 20 (11.63%) CA
5 16 (9.30%) Splunk
6 14 (8.14%) Brocade
6 14 (8.14%) Microsoft
7 11 (6.40%) Cisco
7 11 (6.40%) Syncsort
8 9 (5.23%) HP
8 9 (5.23%) ServiceNow
9 8 (4.65%) CyberArk
9 8 (4.65%) SAP
10 7 (4.07%) EMC
10 7 (4.07%) Isilon
10 7 (4.07%) Qualys
10 7 (4.07%) Serena
10 7 (4.07%) VMware
11 6 (3.49%) BMC
11 6 (3.49%) IBM Sterling