IBM Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 188 229 219
Rank change year-on-year +41 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing IBM 167 253 524
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.03% 1.19%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 2.38% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 157 367
10th Percentile £360 £375 £406
25th Percentile £430 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £638
90th Percentile £750 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £565
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +15.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 1
10th Percentile £28.70 - -
25th Percentile £37.63 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +30.56% +28.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £73.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year +3.70% +38.46% -2.50%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,247 10,646 17,395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.32% 43.21% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 7,170 11,845
10th Percentile £325 £330 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £743 £720
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 244 256
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.96%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £56.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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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 18 May 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 18 May 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 21 (12.57%) SAS
2 20 (11.98%) WebSphere
3 11 (6.59%) WebSphere Application Server
4 10 (5.99%) CICS
4 10 (5.99%) Confluence
5 7 (4.19%) IBM HTTP Server
5 7 (4.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 7 (4.19%) WebLogic
5 7 (4.19%) WebSphere Portal
6 6 (3.59%) JBoss
7 5 (2.99%) IIS
8 4 (2.40%) Tomcat
9 3 (1.80%) Apache
9 3 (1.80%) CMS
9 3 (1.80%) nginx
10 2 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (1.20%) FileNet
11 1 (0.60%) Appian
11 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.99%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Temenos T24
2 3 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.20%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (1.20%) Maximo
3 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.60%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 29 (17.37%) AWS
2 20 (11.98%) Azure
3 14 (8.38%) GitHub
4 8 (4.79%) GCP
5 7 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.19%) IaaS
5 7 (4.19%) PaaS
6 6 (3.59%) Nutanix
6 6 (3.59%) Rubrik
6 6 (3.59%) SaaS
7 5 (2.99%) Apigee
7 5 (2.99%) Kong
8 3 (1.80%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.78%) SSL
2 11 (6.59%) DNS
3 9 (5.39%) Firewall
3 9 (5.39%) SAN
4 8 (4.79%) HTTP
5 7 (4.19%) DWDM
6 6 (3.59%) DHCP
6 6 (3.59%) Kerberos
6 6 (3.59%) NAS
6 6 (3.59%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.59%) VLAN
7 4 (2.40%) Junos
7 4 (2.40%) SDH
7 4 (2.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.60%) MPLS
8 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.97%) DB2
2 10 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 9 (5.39%) IDMS
3 9 (5.39%) MongoDB
4 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.99%) MySQL
5 5 (2.99%) OLAP
5 5 (2.99%) OLTP
5 5 (2.99%) Oracle OLAP
6 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.20%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.20%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.60%) Metadata
8 1 (0.60%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.60%) NewSQL
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 19 (11.38%) Git
3 13 (7.78%) JIRA
4 9 (5.39%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (3.59%) GitLab
5 6 (3.59%) JUnit
5 6 (3.59%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.99%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.40%) Mockito
7 4 (2.40%) Selenium
8 3 (1.80%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.80%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.20%) Subversion
9 2 (1.20%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.60%) ERwin
General
1 63 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 46 (27.54%) Finance
3 22 (13.17%) Banking
4 13 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.99%) Front Office
6 5 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.40%) Aeronautics
7 4 (2.40%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.80%) Billing
8 3 (1.80%) German Language
8 3 (1.80%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.20%) Automotive
9 2 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.20%) French Language
9 2 (1.20%) Japanese Language
9 2 (1.20%) Korean Language
9 2 (1.20%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Developer
2 28 (16.77%) Architect
3 13 (7.78%) Senior
4 11 (6.59%) Programmer
4 11 (6.59%) Systems Programmer
4 11 (6.59%) z/OS Systems Programmer
5 10 (5.99%) Lead
5 10 (5.99%) Mainframe Developer
6 9 (5.39%) IBM Mainframe Developer
6 9 (5.39%) Middleware Engineer
6 9 (5.39%) Storage Manager
7 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
7 8 (4.79%) z/OS Engineer
8 7 (4.19%) Consultant
8 7 (4.19%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.19%) Mainframe Architect
8 7 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.59%) AWS Architect
9 6 (3.59%) Security Architect
9 6 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.17%) ISPF
2 17 (10.18%) Kafka
3 15 (8.98%) Middleware
4 14 (8.38%) Spring Boot
5 12 (7.19%) J2EE
5 12 (7.19%) SOAP
5 12 (7.19%) YAML
6 10 (5.99%) IBM Integration Bus
6 10 (5.99%) Spring
7 9 (5.39%) Web Services
8 7 (4.19%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (3.59%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (3.59%) LDAP
9 6 (3.59%) WebSphere MQ
10 5 (2.99%) Apache Camel
10 5 (2.99%) REST
11 4 (2.40%) JSON
11 4 (2.40%) RESTful
11 4 (2.40%) Spring Integration
11 4 (2.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (28.74%) Mainframe
2 20 (11.98%) IBM Mainframe
3 14 (8.38%) Data Centre
4 12 (7.19%) DataPower
5 10 (5.99%) Replication
6 9 (5.39%) LPAR
7 6 (3.59%) Clustering
8 4 (2.40%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.20%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.60%) Cyberattack
11 1 (0.60%) Equities
11 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.60%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 54 (32.34%) zOS
2 36 (21.56%) Linux
3 23 (13.77%) Windows
4 11 (6.59%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (4.79%) Solaris
7 7 (4.19%) Unix
8 6 (3.59%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (1.80%) VMS
10 2 (1.20%) AIX
10 2 (1.20%) Windows 10
10 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.34%) Agile
2 28 (16.77%) Risk Management
3 26 (15.57%) DevOps
4 21 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (11.98%) Storage Management
6 19 (11.38%) CI/CD
7 18 (10.78%) Problem Management
8 15 (8.98%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (8.38%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (8.38%) ITIL
9 14 (8.38%) Migration
9 14 (8.38%) Requirements Gathering
9 14 (8.38%) Scrum
10 12 (7.19%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (7.19%) Performance Monitoring
11 11 (6.59%) Microservices
11 11 (6.59%) Project Management
12 10 (5.99%) Enterprise Architecture
12 10 (5.99%) SDLC
12 10 (5.99%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (28.14%) REXX
2 41 (24.55%) JCL
3 26 (15.57%) Java
3 26 (15.57%) Python
4 19 (11.38%) CLIST
5 15 (8.98%) COBOL
6 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
7 12 (7.19%) Assembly Language
8 11 (6.59%) SQL
9 10 (5.99%) SELCOPY
10 7 (4.19%) Bash
11 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.80%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.20%) C++
12 2 (1.20%) Groovy
12 2 (1.20%) RPG
12 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.20%) XPath
13 1 (0.60%) Natural
13 1 (0.60%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.59%) Degree
4 5 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.40%) CCNP
5 4 (2.40%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.40%) HND
5 4 (2.40%) JNCIA
5 4 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.20%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) GDPR
2 6 (3.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (25.15%) Time Sharing Option
2 15 (8.98%) RACF
3 14 (8.38%) NFS
4 11 (6.59%) Docker
5 10 (5.99%) Active Directory
6 9 (5.39%) ACF2
7 7 (4.19%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 7 (4.19%) Microcode
8 6 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.60%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 26 (15.57%) Ansible
2 19 (11.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 12 (7.19%) OMEGAMON
4 10 (5.99%) Kubernetes
4 10 (5.99%) Terraform
5 8 (4.79%) Tivoli
6 7 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.59%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (3.59%) Netcool
7 6 (3.59%) zSecure
8 2 (1.20%) CA Endevor
8 2 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (1.20%) logstash
8 2 (1.20%) Packer
8 2 (1.20%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.60%) Control-M
9 1 (0.60%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (20.36%) Oracle
2 28 (16.77%) Broadcom
3 21 (12.57%) Dell
4 20 (11.98%) CA
5 15 (8.98%) Splunk
6 14 (8.38%) Brocade
7 11 (6.59%) Cisco
7 11 (6.59%) Syncsort
8 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
9 9 (5.39%) SAP
10 8 (4.79%) ServiceNow
11 7 (4.19%) CyberArk
11 7 (4.19%) HP
12 6 (3.59%) BMC
12 6 (3.59%) EMC
12 6 (3.59%) Isilon
12 6 (3.59%) Qualys
12 6 (3.59%) Serena
12 6 (3.59%) VMware
13 5 (2.99%) Okta