IBM Contracts with Work from Home 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 13 June 2024, 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 224 236
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 -24
Contract jobs citing IBM 145 256 517
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 1.07% 1.18%
As % of the Vendors category 2.31% 2.44% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 158 381
10th Percentile £359 £375 £406
25th Percentile £423 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +12.82%
75th Percentile £636 £633 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £31.40 - -
25th Percentile £44.38 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £66.00 £58.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.34% +30.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £71.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £75.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% +12.82%

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 6,268 10,513 17,342
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.48% 44.03% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,982 7,074 11,904
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £631
90th Percentile £720 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 248 250
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £16.53 £24.94 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.62 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.40% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.09
90th Percentile £71.25 £79.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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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 13 June 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 13 June 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 19 (13.10%) SAS
2 17 (11.72%) WebSphere
3 10 (6.90%) CICS
3 10 (6.90%) WebSphere Application Server
4 9 (6.21%) Confluence
5 7 (4.83%) IBM HTTP Server
5 7 (4.83%) JBoss
5 7 (4.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (4.83%) WebSphere Portal
6 6 (4.14%) WebLogic
7 5 (3.45%) IIS
8 4 (2.76%) Tomcat
9 3 (2.07%) Apache
9 3 (2.07%) CMS
9 3 (2.07%) nginx
10 2 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (1.38%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (1.38%) FileNet
11 1 (0.69%) Appian
11 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (5.52%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.07%) Maximo
2 3 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.38%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.38%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 25 (17.24%) AWS
2 19 (13.10%) Azure
3 10 (6.90%) GitHub
4 6 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.14%) IaaS
4 6 (4.14%) PaaS
5 5 (3.45%) Apigee
5 5 (3.45%) GCP
5 5 (3.45%) Kong
5 5 (3.45%) Nutanix
5 5 (3.45%) Rubrik
5 5 (3.45%) SaaS
6 3 (2.07%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.07%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.38%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.38%) OCI
7 2 (1.38%) Serverless
7 2 (1.38%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.59%) SSL
2 10 (6.90%) DNS
3 8 (5.52%) Firewall
3 8 (5.52%) HTTP
4 6 (4.14%) SAN
5 5 (3.45%) DHCP
5 5 (3.45%) Kerberos
5 5 (3.45%) NAS
5 5 (3.45%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.45%) VLAN
6 4 (2.76%) DWDM
6 4 (2.76%) Junos
6 4 (2.76%) SDH
6 4 (2.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.86%) DB2
2 9 (6.21%) IDMS
2 9 (6.21%) MongoDB
2 9 (6.21%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.45%) MySQL
4 5 (3.45%) OLAP
4 5 (3.45%) OLTP
4 5 (3.45%) Oracle OLAP
5 4 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.76%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.38%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.69%) Adabas
7 1 (0.69%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 18 (12.41%) Git
3 13 (8.97%) JIRA
4 8 (5.52%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (4.14%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (3.45%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.76%) GitLab
7 4 (2.76%) JUnit
8 3 (2.07%) HP UFT
8 3 (2.07%) Katalon Studio
8 3 (2.07%) Selenium
9 2 (1.38%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.38%) Mockito
9 2 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.38%) Subversion
9 2 (1.38%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 45 (31.03%) Finance
3 21 (14.48%) Banking
4 13 (8.97%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.76%) Aeronautics
7 4 (2.76%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.07%) Billing
8 3 (2.07%) Front Office
8 3 (2.07%) German Language
8 3 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.38%) Automotive
9 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.38%) French Language
9 2 (1.38%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.38%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (18.62%) Developer
2 25 (17.24%) Architect
3 11 (7.59%) Senior
4 10 (6.90%) Mainframe Developer
4 10 (6.90%) Programmer
4 10 (6.90%) Systems Programmer
4 10 (6.90%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 9 (6.21%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 9 (6.21%) Lead
6 8 (5.52%) Middleware Engineer
7 7 (4.83%) Consultant
7 7 (4.83%) Mainframe Architect
7 7 (4.83%) z/OS Engineer
8 6 (4.14%) AWS Architect
8 6 (4.14%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.14%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.45%) Applications Support
9 5 (3.45%) Java Developer
9 5 (3.45%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.17%) ISPF
2 17 (11.72%) Kafka
3 14 (9.66%) Middleware
4 12 (8.28%) J2EE
4 12 (8.28%) SOAP
4 12 (8.28%) Spring Boot
5 10 (6.90%) Spring
6 9 (6.21%) IBM Integration Bus
6 9 (6.21%) Web Services
7 8 (5.52%) YAML
8 7 (4.83%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.14%) REST
10 5 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
10 5 (3.45%) Apache Camel
10 5 (3.45%) LDAP
10 5 (3.45%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (2.76%) JSON
11 4 (2.76%) RESTful
11 4 (2.76%) Spring Integration
11 4 (2.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (28.28%) Mainframe
2 18 (12.41%) IBM Mainframe
3 11 (7.59%) DataPower
4 9 (6.21%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.21%) Replication
5 5 (3.45%) Clustering
6 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.76%) LPAR
7 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.38%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.38%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.69%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.69%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.69%) FMCG
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) iSeries
9 1 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 42 (28.97%) zOS
2 27 (18.62%) Linux
3 20 (13.79%) Windows
4 10 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.52%) Unix
6 7 (4.83%) Solaris
7 5 (3.45%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.07%) AIX
8 3 (2.07%) VMS
9 2 (1.38%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.28%) Agile
2 24 (16.55%) DevOps
3 19 (13.10%) Risk Management
4 16 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 15 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
6 14 (9.66%) ITIL
6 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (9.66%) Scrum
6 14 (9.66%) Storage Management
7 13 (8.97%) Problem Management
8 12 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (7.59%) Deployment Automation
9 11 (7.59%) Migration
10 10 (6.90%) Microservices
10 10 (6.90%) Performance Monitoring
10 10 (6.90%) Workflow
11 9 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (6.21%) Enterprise Architecture
11 9 (6.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.21%) REXX
2 31 (21.38%) JCL
3 22 (15.17%) Java
4 21 (14.48%) Python
5 16 (11.03%) CLIST
6 15 (10.34%) COBOL
7 12 (8.28%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.90%) Assembly Language
8 10 (6.90%) SELCOPY
9 8 (5.52%) SQL
10 5 (3.45%) Bash
11 4 (2.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.07%) JavaScript
13 2 (1.38%) Groovy
13 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.38%) XPath
14 1 (0.69%) C#
14 1 (0.69%) Natural
14 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.69%) RPG
Qualifications
1 19 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.59%) Degree
4 5 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.76%) CCNP
5 4 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.76%) HND
5 4 (2.76%) JNCIA
5 4 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.69%) IBM Certification
7 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.14%) GDPR
2 5 (3.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.07%) NIST
4 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (22.07%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (8.97%) RACF
3 10 (6.90%) Docker
4 9 (6.21%) Active Directory
4 9 (6.21%) NFS
5 7 (4.83%) ACF2
6 5 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (2.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 4 (2.76%) Microcode
Systems Management
1 21 (14.48%) Ansible
2 13 (8.97%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 10 (6.90%) OMEGAMON
4 9 (6.21%) Kubernetes
5 8 (5.52%) Terraform
6 7 (4.83%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.83%) Tivoli
7 6 (4.14%) zSecure
8 5 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (3.45%) Netcool
9 2 (1.38%) CA Endevor
9 2 (1.38%) Kibana
9 2 (1.38%) logstash
9 2 (1.38%) Packer
9 2 (1.38%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.69%) Control-M
10 1 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (20.00%) Oracle
2 21 (14.48%) Broadcom
3 15 (10.34%) CA
4 14 (9.66%) Dell
5 12 (8.28%) Splunk
6 11 (7.59%) Syncsort
7 10 (6.90%) Cisco
8 9 (6.21%) Brocade
8 9 (6.21%) Microsoft
9 7 (4.83%) SAP
9 7 (4.83%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.14%) BMC
10 6 (4.14%) CyberArk
10 6 (4.14%) HP
11 5 (3.45%) IBM Sterling
11 5 (3.45%) Isilon
11 5 (3.45%) Qualys
11 5 (3.45%) Serena
11 5 (3.45%) TSYS
11 5 (3.45%) VMware