IBM Contracts in England

IBM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 321 258
Rank change year-on-year +112 -63 -23
Contract jobs citing IBM 395 357 753
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 0.74% 1.07%
As % of the Vendors category 2.58% 1.77% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 239 484
10th Percentile £383 £362 £400
25th Percentile £425 £446 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £650 £607 £675
90th Percentile £753 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +15.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 1 14
10th Percentile £59.00 - £36.72
25th Percentile £65.53 - £39.86
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +64.10% -18.75%
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +3.70% +38.46% -2.50%

All Vendors
England

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 advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,330 20,219 27,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.09% 41.96% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,758 13,926 19,092
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 571 784
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +63.78% +1.76%
75th Percentile £57.12 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.18
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in England

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in England

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in England

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in England

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in England

IBM
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
London +72 165 £594 +13.10% 67
North of England +77 87 £430 -9.47% 23
Yorkshire +53 71 £430 -28.33% 9
South West +40 48 £650 +52.94% 14
South East +37 46 £531 +6.25% 39
Midlands +15 23 £403 -12.92% 13
West Midlands +24 21 £403 -10.50% 8
East of England +13 16 £525 +28.68% 21
North West +15 13 £539 +65.85% 14
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +6 2 - - 5
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 32 (8.10%) SAS
2 22 (5.57%) WebSphere
3 16 (4.05%) CICS
4 15 (3.80%) Confluence
5 10 (2.53%) IIS
5 10 (2.53%) WebLogic
6 9 (2.28%) Tomcat
7 8 (2.03%) JBoss
7 8 (2.03%) MQSeries
7 8 (2.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (2.03%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (1.77%) Appian
9 6 (1.52%) Apache
9 6 (1.52%) nginx
10 4 (1.01%) CMS
11 2 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.51%) FileNet
11 2 (0.51%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.51%) IBM Notes
12 1 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 8 (2.03%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.51%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.25%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (3.29%) Temenos T24
2 12 (3.04%) Maximo
3 6 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.76%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.16%) AWS
2 32 (8.10%) Azure
3 19 (4.81%) GitHub
4 17 (4.30%) SaaS
5 16 (4.05%) GCP
5 16 (4.05%) PaaS
6 8 (2.03%) Apigee
6 8 (2.03%) Nutanix
7 7 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.77%) IaaS
7 7 (1.77%) Kong
8 6 (1.52%) Rubrik
9 4 (1.01%) Alation
9 4 (1.01%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.51%) OCI
11 2 (0.51%) Unqork
11 2 (0.51%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.33%) SAN
1 25 (6.33%) SSL
2 16 (4.05%) DNS
3 15 (3.80%) Firewall
4 9 (2.28%) DWDM
4 9 (2.28%) PBX
4 9 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.28%) VoIP
5 8 (2.03%) WAN
6 7 (1.77%) NAS
6 7 (1.77%) SDH
7 6 (1.52%) DHCP
7 6 (1.52%) Kerberos
7 6 (1.52%) VLAN
8 4 (1.01%) Junos
9 3 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.76%) HTTP
9 3 (0.76%) NX-OS
9 3 (0.76%) VPN
10 2 (0.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (10.13%) DB2
2 22 (5.57%) Relational Database
3 12 (3.04%) IDMS
3 12 (3.04%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.78%) RDBMS
5 10 (2.53%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.77%) OLAP
6 7 (1.77%) OLTP
7 6 (1.52%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (1.27%) Metadata
8 5 (1.27%) MySQL
8 5 (1.27%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.27%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.27%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (1.01%) Big Data
9 4 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.51%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.51%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
10 2 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 32 (8.10%) Jenkins
2 24 (6.08%) Git
2 24 (6.08%) Rational DOORS
3 20 (5.06%) JIRA
4 13 (3.29%) Rational Rhapsody
5 8 (2.03%) IBM UrbanCode
6 7 (1.77%) Selenium
7 6 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.27%) GitLab
8 5 (1.27%) JUnit
8 5 (1.27%) Mockito
9 4 (1.01%) Appium
9 4 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 4 (1.01%) Rational Performance Tester
9 4 (1.01%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.01%) WebDriver
10 3 (0.76%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.76%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
General
1 124 (31.39%) Social Skills
2 78 (19.75%) Finance
3 39 (9.87%) Banking
4 34 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.29%) Electronics
7 12 (3.04%) Aerospace
8 10 (2.53%) Front Office
9 7 (1.77%) Aeronautics
9 7 (1.77%) Digital Economy
10 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.27%) Private Banking
12 4 (1.01%) German Language
12 4 (1.01%) Legal
12 4 (1.01%) Military
12 4 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.76%) Law
Job Titles
1 70 (17.72%) Architect
2 53 (13.42%) Developer
3 32 (8.10%) Solutions Architect
4 29 (7.34%) Software Engineer
5 28 (7.09%) Storage Manager
6 27 (6.84%) Embedded Engineer
6 27 (6.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 22 (5.57%) Senior
8 21 (5.32%) Programmer
9 20 (5.06%) Systems Programmer
9 20 (5.06%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 19 (4.81%) Analyst
10 19 (4.81%) Applications Support
11 17 (4.30%) Lead
11 17 (4.30%) Mainframe Developer
12 15 (3.80%) Security Architect
13 14 (3.54%) Applications Specialist
13 14 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (3.04%) Consultant
14 12 (3.04%) IBM Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.89%) ISPF
2 21 (5.32%) Kafka
3 19 (4.81%) Spring Boot
4 18 (4.56%) Spring
5 17 (4.30%) SOAP
5 17 (4.30%) Web Services
6 16 (4.05%) YAML
7 14 (3.54%) Flash
7 14 (3.54%) IBM Integration Bus
8 12 (3.04%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (2.78%) Middleware
9 11 (2.78%) OpenID
9 11 (2.78%) REST
10 10 (2.53%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (2.53%) WebSphere MQ
10 10 (2.53%) XACML
10 10 (2.53%) XML
11 9 (2.28%) Apache Camel
12 8 (2.03%) J2EE
12 8 (2.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (16.96%) Mainframe
2 31 (7.85%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.06%) DataPower
4 19 (4.81%) ARM Cortex
5 17 (4.30%) IBM Mainframe
6 16 (4.05%) Replication
7 15 (3.80%) LPAR
8 9 (2.28%) Blackberry
8 9 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
9 8 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.03%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.77%) Clustering
11 6 (1.52%) AS400
11 6 (1.52%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.27%) Derivative
12 5 (1.27%) iSeries
12 5 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.27%) OTC Derivatives
13 4 (1.01%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 110 (27.85%) Linux
2 83 (21.01%) zOS
3 47 (11.90%) Windows
4 30 (7.59%) Unix
5 19 (4.81%) FreeRTOS
6 18 (4.56%) AIX
7 17 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (3.80%) Solaris
8 15 (3.80%) Windows Server
9 6 (1.52%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.01%) VMS
11 2 (0.51%) HPUX
11 2 (0.51%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.25%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (18.23%) Agile
2 53 (13.42%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (12.66%) Risk Management
4 47 (11.90%) DevOps
5 40 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 39 (9.87%) ITIL
6 39 (9.87%) Software Engineering
6 39 (9.87%) Storage Management
7 33 (8.35%) CI/CD
7 33 (8.35%) Project Management
8 31 (7.85%) Software Testing
9 28 (7.09%) Enterprise Architecture
10 27 (6.84%) Migration
11 26 (6.58%) Roadmaps
11 26 (6.58%) TOGAF
12 25 (6.33%) Problem Management
13 23 (5.82%) Configuration Management
14 22 (5.57%) Continuous Integration
14 22 (5.57%) Performance Monitoring
15 21 (5.32%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (15.70%) JCL
1 62 (15.70%) Python
2 61 (15.44%) REXX
3 51 (12.91%) Java
4 35 (8.86%) SQL
5 33 (8.35%) C
6 26 (6.58%) PowerShell
7 22 (5.57%) CLIST
7 22 (5.57%) COBOL
8 19 (4.81%) Embedded C
9 17 (4.30%) Assembly Language
10 13 (3.29%) Shell Script
11 12 (3.04%) Ada
11 12 (3.04%) SELCOPY
12 11 (2.78%) Bash
13 9 (2.28%) JavaScript
14 8 (2.03%) C#
15 7 (1.77%) C++
15 7 (1.77%) RPG
16 5 (1.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 101 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 86 (21.77%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.61%) Degree
4 16 (4.05%) DV Cleared
5 12 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.04%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.78%) HND
7 10 (2.53%) CCNP
8 5 (1.27%) IBM Certification
9 4 (1.01%) JNCIA
10 3 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.25%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.25%) CSSLP
12 1 (0.25%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.25%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.03%) QA
2 7 (1.77%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.77%) GDPR
3 6 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.27%) Def Stans
4 5 (1.27%) DO-178B
5 3 (0.76%) MISRA
5 3 (0.76%) NIST
5 3 (0.76%) SLA
6 2 (0.51%) GRC
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 61 (15.44%) Time Sharing Option
2 22 (5.57%) RACF
3 20 (5.06%) NFS
3 20 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.30%) Docker
5 16 (4.05%) ACF2
6 13 (3.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 13 (3.29%) Microcode
7 10 (2.53%) Active Directory
8 8 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (1.52%) Hyper-V
10 5 (1.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (1.01%) Firmware
12 2 (0.51%) vSphere
13 1 (0.25%) Lustre
13 1 (0.25%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 56 (14.18%) Ansible
2 38 (9.62%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 22 (5.57%) OMEGAMON
4 21 (5.32%) Kubernetes
5 16 (4.05%) Netcool
5 16 (4.05%) Terraform
6 15 (3.80%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.28%) Grafana
8 8 (2.03%) ITRS Geneos
8 8 (2.03%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.52%) CA Endevor
9 6 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.52%) zSecure
10 5 (1.27%) Rancher
10 5 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.27%) SCOM
10 5 (1.27%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 3 (0.76%) Control-M
12 2 (0.51%) logstash
12 2 (0.51%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 54 (13.67%) Oracle
2 46 (11.65%) Broadcom
3 41 (10.38%) Microsoft
4 39 (9.87%) Dell
5 35 (8.86%) Brocade
6 34 (8.61%) Cisco
7 27 (6.84%) CA
8 26 (6.58%) SAP
9 25 (6.33%) Splunk
10 23 (5.82%) Nokia
10 23 (5.82%) VMware
11 20 (5.06%) Juniper
12 19 (4.81%) Lauterbach
13 17 (4.30%) ServiceNow
14 16 (4.05%) HP
15 15 (3.80%) Dynatrace
15 15 (3.80%) Google
16 13 (3.29%) Okta
16 13 (3.29%) Red Hat
16 13 (3.29%) Syncsort