IBM Contract Job Trends 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 16 December 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
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 55 39
Rank change year-on-year -56 -16 +85
Contract jobs citing IBM 21 34 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.14% 2.89% 4.00%
As % of the Vendors category 2.49% 6.67% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 40
10th Percentile £340 £418 £406
25th Percentile £412 £510 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £600 £430
Median % change year-on-year -21.04% +39.53% -9.47%
75th Percentile £487 £628 £559
90th Percentile £649 £706 £600
England median daily rate £475 £498 £550
% change year-on-year -4.52% -9.55% -

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 842 510 912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 45.54% 43.29% 49.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 302 570
10th Percentile £280 £223 £250
25th Percentile £376 £357 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £492 £483
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% +1.87% -3.50%
75th Percentile £566 £575 £587
90th Percentile £638 £697 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 9
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.40 £15.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £54.50 £22.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.22% +2.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £81.25 £42.50 -
90th Percentile - £98.79 £22.96
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.43% +73.88%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

IBM job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Yorkshire

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing IBM

IBM
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 16 December 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 -51 16 £481 -19.83% 1
West Yorkshire -28 5 £406 -45.83% 3
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) CICS
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
2 1 (4.76%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
2 1 (4.76%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Figma
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) IBM Blueworks
3 1 (4.76%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
1 6 (28.57%) iSCSI
1 6 (28.57%) NAS
1 6 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.76%) FCoE
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) Multicast
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) DB2
2 2 (9.52%) Adabas
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (9.52%) Banking
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) COBOL Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Management Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Programmer
2 2 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Systems Programmer
2 2 (9.52%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.76%) IBM Storage Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Storage Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (4.76%) Subject Matter Expert
3 1 (4.76%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ISPF
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (42.86%) Mainframe
2 7 (33.33%) Replication
3 6 (28.57%) IBM Mainframe
4 5 (23.81%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (9.52%) AS400
7 1 (4.76%) Clustering
7 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) zOS
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) MVS
2 1 (4.76%) Solaris
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (28.57%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (23.81%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) Storage Management
7 2 (9.52%) AI
7 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
7 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (9.52%) Threat Management
8 1 (4.76%) Agile
8 1 (4.76%) Change Management
8 1 (4.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) JCL
2 2 (9.52%) COBOL
2 2 (9.52%) Natural
3 1 (4.76%) Assembly Language
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) CLIST
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) REXX
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) CISSP
2 1 (4.76%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) GCIH
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) NFS
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.76%) KVM
2 1 (4.76%) SRDF
2 1 (4.76%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) EMC
1 6 (28.57%) NetApp
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.76%) Darktrace
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) F5
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) VMware