IBM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 231 300 249
Rank change year-on-year +69 -51 -36
Contract jobs citing IBM 457 525 1,052
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 0.88% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 2.48% 2.05% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 310 645
10th Percentile £384 £359 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.82%
75th Percentile £650 £613 £638
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -5.80% +3.09% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 20
10th Percentile £57.50 £45.53 £23.40
25th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £37.12
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £43.10
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +56.63% -13.81%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £54.06
90th Percentile - - £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% +20.48% -14.87%

All Vendors
UK

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 requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +105 384 £525 - 147
UK excluding London +76 226 £471 -5.80% 84
Work from Home +62 172 £500 -2.44% 72
London +67 170 £600 +9.09% 64
North of England +62 83 £430 -9.47% 23
Yorkshire +57 70 £430 -22.87% 6
South West +49 44 £650 +44.44% 19
South East +29 39 £550 +10.00% 23
Scotland -2 24 £500 -6.98% 2
Midlands +9 23 £403 -10.50% 6
West Midlands +28 21 £403 -10.50% 5
East of England +23 13 £473 +40.00% 10
North West +3 10 £495 +52.15% 17
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +9 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 4

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 44 (9.63%) SAS
2 31 (6.78%) WebSphere
3 24 (5.25%) CICS
4 15 (3.28%) WebSphere Application Server
5 14 (3.06%) Confluence
5 14 (3.06%) JBoss
6 12 (2.63%) IIS
6 12 (2.63%) Tomcat
7 10 (2.19%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.97%) Apache
8 9 (1.97%) nginx
9 8 (1.75%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (1.75%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (1.31%) MQSeries
12 5 (1.09%) Appian
13 4 (0.88%) CMS
14 3 (0.66%) IBM Domino
14 3 (0.66%) IBM Notes
15 2 (0.44%) FileNet
Applications
1 7 (1.53%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 14 (3.06%) Temenos T24
2 11 (2.41%) Maximo
3 9 (1.97%) Loan IQ
4 4 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.44%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.22%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
6 1 (0.22%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 64 (14.00%) AWS
2 44 (9.63%) Azure
3 23 (5.03%) GitHub
4 21 (4.60%) SaaS
5 19 (4.16%) PaaS
6 17 (3.72%) GCP
7 11 (2.41%) Nutanix
8 10 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.19%) IaaS
9 8 (1.75%) Rubrik
10 7 (1.53%) Apigee
11 5 (1.09%) Kong
11 5 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (0.88%) Alation
12 4 (0.88%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.88%) IBM Cloud
12 4 (0.88%) OpenShift
13 3 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (0.66%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.78%) SAN
2 27 (5.91%) SSL
3 22 (4.81%) DNS
4 20 (4.38%) Firewall
5 14 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.19%) HTTP
7 9 (1.97%) DWDM
7 9 (1.97%) NAS
7 9 (1.97%) PBX
7 9 (1.97%) VoIP
8 8 (1.75%) DHCP
8 8 (1.75%) Kerberos
8 8 (1.75%) VLAN
8 8 (1.75%) WAN
9 7 (1.53%) SDH
10 4 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.88%) iSCSI
10 4 (0.88%) Junos
11 3 (0.66%) NX-OS
11 3 (0.66%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (11.82%) DB2
2 27 (5.91%) Relational Database
3 21 (4.60%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.16%) IDMS
5 15 (3.28%) RDBMS
6 10 (2.19%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.53%) MySQL
7 7 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.31%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.31%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.09%) Metadata
9 5 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.09%) OLAP
9 5 (1.09%) OLTP
9 5 (1.09%) Oracle OLAP
10 4 (0.88%) Big Data
10 4 (0.88%) Sybase ASE
11 3 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.66%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.44%) Informix
Development Applications
1 40 (8.75%) Jenkins
2 29 (6.35%) Git
3 23 (5.03%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (4.38%) JIRA
5 13 (2.84%) IBM UrbanCode
5 13 (2.84%) Rational Rhapsody
6 10 (2.19%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.97%) Selenium
8 8 (1.75%) JUnit
9 7 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.53%) GitLab
10 6 (1.31%) Mockito
11 4 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.88%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.66%) Appium
12 3 (0.66%) HP UFT
12 3 (0.66%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (0.66%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.66%) Rational Performance Tester
12 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
General
1 151 (33.04%) Social Skills
2 106 (23.19%) Finance
3 50 (10.94%) Banking
4 37 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.38%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.84%) Electronics
7 13 (2.84%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.63%) Aerospace
9 11 (2.41%) Front Office
10 9 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.53%) Aeronautics
11 7 (1.53%) Digital Economy
12 5 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.09%) German Language
13 4 (0.88%) Legal
13 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.66%) Aviation
14 3 (0.66%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (17.29%) Architect
2 61 (13.35%) Developer
3 30 (6.56%) Solutions Architect
4 28 (6.13%) Senior
5 27 (5.91%) Software Engineer
5 27 (5.91%) Storage Manager
6 25 (5.47%) Embedded Engineer
6 25 (5.47%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 23 (5.03%) Consultant
8 22 (4.81%) Programmer
9 21 (4.60%) Systems Programmer
9 21 (4.60%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 20 (4.38%) Analyst
10 20 (4.38%) Applications Support
11 19 (4.16%) Lead
11 19 (4.16%) Mainframe Developer
12 16 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.28%) Security Architect
14 14 (3.06%) IBM Mainframe Developer
15 13 (2.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.60%) ISPF
2 25 (5.47%) Kafka
2 25 (5.47%) Middleware
3 20 (4.38%) Spring
3 20 (4.38%) Spring Boot
4 19 (4.16%) YAML
5 17 (3.72%) Flash
5 17 (3.72%) IBM Integration Bus
6 16 (3.50%) REST
7 14 (3.06%) SOAP
8 13 (2.84%) ActiveMQ
8 13 (2.84%) Apache Camel
8 13 (2.84%) J2EE
8 13 (2.84%) OpenID
8 13 (2.84%) WebSphere MQ
9 12 (2.63%) Web Services
9 12 (2.63%) XACML
10 11 (2.41%) XML
11 10 (2.19%) RabbitMQ
11 10 (2.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 87 (19.04%) Mainframe
2 34 (7.44%) Data Centre
3 29 (6.35%) IBM Mainframe
4 19 (4.16%) DataPower
5 17 (3.72%) ARM Cortex
5 17 (3.72%) Replication
6 15 (3.28%) LPAR
7 10 (2.19%) Clustering
7 10 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.97%) Blackberry
8 9 (1.97%) Derivative
8 9 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (1.31%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.09%) OTC Derivatives
11 4 (0.88%) Driving Licence
11 4 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.88%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.88%) NVMe
11 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 123 (26.91%) Linux
2 98 (21.44%) zOS
3 66 (14.44%) Windows
4 36 (7.88%) Unix
5 24 (5.25%) Windows Server
6 23 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (4.60%) AIX
8 18 (3.94%) Solaris
9 17 (3.72%) FreeRTOS
10 8 (1.75%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.88%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.88%) VMS
12 2 (0.44%) Android
12 2 (0.44%) HPUX
12 2 (0.44%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (19.91%) Agile
2 54 (11.82%) DevOps
2 54 (11.82%) Risk Management
3 49 (10.72%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (10.72%) Storage Management
4 46 (10.07%) CI/CD
5 44 (9.63%) ITIL
6 42 (9.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (8.53%) Migration
7 39 (8.53%) Software Engineering
8 37 (8.10%) Project Management
9 35 (7.66%) Problem Management
10 30 (6.56%) Continuous Integration
11 29 (6.35%) Software Testing
12 26 (5.69%) Enterprise Architecture
12 26 (5.69%) Roadmaps
13 25 (5.47%) Performance Monitoring
13 25 (5.47%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (5.47%) Scrum
13 25 (5.47%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.85%) REXX
2 76 (16.63%) JCL
3 75 (16.41%) Python
4 67 (14.66%) Java
5 59 (12.91%) SQL
6 33 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 31 (6.78%) C
8 29 (6.35%) COBOL
9 28 (6.13%) CLIST
10 25 (5.47%) Assembly Language
11 17 (3.72%) Embedded C
12 15 (3.28%) SELCOPY
13 14 (3.06%) Shell Script
14 12 (2.63%) Ada
14 12 (2.63%) JavaScript
15 11 (2.41%) Bash
16 9 (1.97%) C#
16 9 (1.97%) Perl
17 7 (1.53%) C++
18 6 (1.31%) RPG
Qualifications
1 105 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.13%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.88%) Degree
4 14 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.84%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.41%) HND
7 10 (2.19%) CCNP
7 10 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.88%) JNCIA
9 3 (0.66%) IBM Certification
9 3 (0.66%) PMP
9 3 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.75%) GDPR
1 8 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (1.53%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.53%) QA
3 5 (1.09%) Def Stans
3 5 (1.09%) DO-178B
4 3 (0.66%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.66%) MISRA
4 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.44%) GRC
5 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.44%) NIST
5 2 (0.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.22%) COREP
6 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 73 (15.97%) Time Sharing Option
2 26 (5.69%) NFS
3 23 (5.03%) RACF
4 20 (4.38%) Docker
4 20 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (3.94%) ACF2
6 13 (2.84%) Active Directory
6 13 (2.84%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 13 (2.84%) Microcode
7 8 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.09%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.88%) GPFS
9 4 (0.88%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 3 (0.66%) Firmware
10 3 (0.66%) vSphere
11 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.22%) Lustre
12 1 (0.22%) PowerHA
12 1 (0.22%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 63 (13.79%) Ansible
2 40 (8.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 25 (5.47%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.47%) OMEGAMON
4 19 (4.16%) Terraform
5 15 (3.28%) Netcool
5 15 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.63%) Tivoli
7 10 (2.19%) Grafana
8 9 (1.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 8 (1.75%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.09%) CA Endevor
11 4 (0.88%) Rancher
11 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.88%) SCOM
11 4 (0.88%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (0.88%) Veritas Storage Foundation
11 4 (0.88%) zSecure
12 3 (0.66%) logstash
12 3 (0.66%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 74 (16.19%) Oracle
2 55 (12.04%) Broadcom
3 47 (10.28%) Microsoft
4 44 (9.63%) Dell
5 39 (8.53%) Brocade
6 37 (8.10%) Cisco
7 32 (7.00%) CA
8 28 (6.13%) Splunk
9 26 (5.69%) SAP
10 23 (5.03%) Nokia
10 23 (5.03%) VMware
11 20 (4.38%) Juniper
11 20 (4.38%) ServiceNow
12 19 (4.16%) Google
13 17 (3.72%) Lauterbach
14 16 (3.50%) HP
14 16 (3.50%) Syncsort
15 15 (3.28%) Okta
15 15 (3.28%) Red Hat
16 14 (3.06%) Dynatrace