IBM Contracts in Yorkshire

IBM
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 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 the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 36 99
Rank change year-on-year -33 +63 +6
Contract jobs citing IBM 23 70 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.26% 4.14% 1.21%
As % of the Vendors category 4.76% 8.63% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 45 21
10th Percentile £390 £401 £400
25th Percentile £413 £407 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £430 £558
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -22.87% +31.18%
75th Percentile £600 £453 £626
90th Percentile £655 £588 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.67
Median hourly rate - - £40.58
75th Percentile - - £43.48
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.18 £70.00 £45.29
% change year-on-year -65.46% +54.57% +5.09%

All Vendors
Yorkshire

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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 483 811 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 47.49% 48.02% 39.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 491 628
10th Percentile £218 £258 £213
25th Percentile £350 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £600
90th Percentile £647 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 48 8
10th Percentile £18.35 £12.37 £14.33
25th Percentile £21.24 £13.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.19 £36.18
90th Percentile £99.93 £19.39 £54.43
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Yorkshire

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Yorkshire

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire -28 14 £450 +4.65% 5
West Yorkshire +20 8 £606 +89.45% 3
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (13.04%) SAS
2 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.04%) AWS
1 3 (13.04%) Azure
1 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 2 (8.70%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.70%) SSH
3 1 (4.35%) DWDM
3 1 (4.35%) Firewall
3 1 (4.35%) SNA
3 1 (4.35%) SSL
3 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
1 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Easytrieve
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Architect
2 5 (21.74%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Programmer
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Programmer
3 3 (13.04%) z/OS Systems Programmer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Mainframe Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Software Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.70%) z/OS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) z/OS Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) ISPF
2 2 (8.70%) EntireX
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) Middleware
2 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Mainframe
2 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) IBM Mainframe
3 3 (13.04%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Replication
5 1 (4.35%) AS400
5 1 (4.35%) Clustering
5 1 (4.35%) iSeries
5 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.35%) LPAR
5 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) zOS
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 4 (17.39%) Unix
3 4 (17.39%) Windows
4 3 (13.04%) Solaris
5 2 (8.70%) HPUX
5 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (21.74%) High Availability
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
3 3 (13.04%) Data Protection
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (8.70%) Agile
4 2 (8.70%) B2B
4 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (8.70%) ITIL
4 2 (8.70%) Key Management
4 2 (8.70%) Monte Carlo Method
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (8.70%) Planning and Forecasting
4 2 (8.70%) Risk Management
4 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
4 2 (8.70%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) JCL
1 7 (30.43%) REXX
2 4 (17.39%) CLIST
3 3 (13.04%) ActionScript
3 3 (13.04%) ActionScript 2.0
4 2 (8.70%) Assembly Language
4 2 (8.70%) COBOL
4 2 (8.70%) Python
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) C
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (4.35%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Certification
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
3 1 (4.35%) ACF2
3 1 (4.35%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (4.35%) Microcode
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
1 2 (8.70%) Grafana
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.70%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (8.70%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.35%) Control-M
2 1 (4.35%) Nagios
2 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.35%) Puppet
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) IBM Sterling
2 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.70%) HP
2 2 (8.70%) Software AG
2 2 (8.70%) Sun
2 2 (8.70%) Unisys
2 2 (8.70%) webMethods
3 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
3 1 (4.35%) Dell
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk