IBM Contracts in London

IBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 236 306 256
Rank change year-on-year +70 -50 -34
Contract jobs citing IBM 158 186 426
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.73% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 1.83% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 130 291
10th Percentile £413 £437 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +12.38%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £725
90th Percentile £870 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £518 £575
% change year-on-year +1.45% -10.00% +15.00%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,193 10,141 14,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.08% 39.87% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,941 7,189 10,469
10th Percentile £305 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £531 £525
% change year-on-year -3.01% +1.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 128 166
10th Percentile £13.93 £16.10 £17.50
25th Percentile £17.20 £21.18 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £28.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -22.22% +33.33%
75th Percentile £38.75 £54.44 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.75
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +74.42% +7.50%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Central London +55 32 £619 -11.61% 3
East London - 2 £473 -
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 18 (11.39%) WebSphere
2 8 (5.06%) MQSeries
2 8 (5.06%) Tomcat
2 8 (5.06%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.43%) JBoss
4 6 (3.80%) Apache
4 6 (3.80%) IIS
4 6 (3.80%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (3.16%) CICS
5 5 (3.16%) Confluence
5 5 (3.16%) nginx
6 4 (2.53%) Appian
7 3 (1.90%) CMS
8 2 (1.27%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.63%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.16%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.53%) Maximo
2 4 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.63%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.46%) AWS
2 20 (12.66%) Azure
3 13 (8.23%) GCP
4 7 (4.43%) Nutanix
4 7 (4.43%) SaaS
5 6 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.80%) IaaS
5 6 (3.80%) PaaS
6 5 (3.16%) Rubrik
7 3 (1.90%) Alation
7 3 (1.90%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.90%) GitHub
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.27%) OCI
9 1 (0.63%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.63%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.63%) Collibra
9 1 (0.63%) IBM Watson
9 1 (0.63%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.76%) SSL
2 12 (7.59%) DNS
3 10 (6.33%) Firewall
4 8 (5.06%) SAN
5 6 (3.80%) NAS
5 6 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 5 (3.16%) DHCP
6 5 (3.16%) Kerberos
6 5 (3.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.63%) AMQP
7 1 (0.63%) HTTP
7 1 (0.63%) IPsec
7 1 (0.63%) MPLS
7 1 (0.63%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.56%) DB2
2 21 (13.29%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.33%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.43%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.16%) MySQL
5 5 (3.16%) Sybase ASE
6 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.53%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.90%) Big Data
7 3 (1.90%) Metadata
8 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.27%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.63%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.63%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.63%) NewSQL
9 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Jenkins
2 11 (6.96%) Git
3 7 (4.43%) IBM UrbanCode
3 7 (4.43%) JIRA
3 7 (4.43%) Selenium
4 6 (3.80%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.16%) GitLab
6 4 (2.53%) Appium
6 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.53%) JUnit
6 4 (2.53%) LoadRunner
6 4 (2.53%) Mockito
6 4 (2.53%) Rational Performance Tester
6 4 (2.53%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.53%) WebDriver
7 3 (1.90%) HP UFT
7 3 (1.90%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (1.27%) Maven
8 2 (1.27%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 52 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 51 (32.28%) Finance
3 29 (18.35%) Banking
4 20 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.33%) Front Office
6 7 (4.43%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.16%) Private Banking
8 3 (1.90%) Back Office
8 3 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.63%) Advertising
10 1 (0.63%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.63%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.63%) French Language
10 1 (0.63%) German Language
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.63%) Military
10 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (23.42%) Architect
2 28 (17.72%) Developer
3 21 (13.29%) Senior
4 16 (10.13%) Analyst
5 15 (9.49%) Security Architect
6 11 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.33%) Applications Support
7 10 (6.33%) Consultant
7 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.43%) Applications Support Analyst
8 7 (4.43%) DBA
8 7 (4.43%) Mainframe Architect
8 7 (4.43%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (4.43%) SQL Analyst
8 7 (4.43%) SQL Support Analyst
8 7 (4.43%) Support Analyst
9 6 (3.80%) Lead
10 5 (3.16%) Integration Specialist
10 5 (3.16%) Server Specialist
10 5 (3.16%) WebSphere Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) OpenID
1 11 (6.96%) Spring Boot
2 10 (6.33%) Spring
2 10 (6.33%) XACML
3 8 (5.06%) FpML
3 8 (5.06%) Middleware
3 8 (5.06%) SAML
3 8 (5.06%) XML
4 7 (4.43%) SOAP
4 7 (4.43%) Web Services
4 7 (4.43%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (3.80%) IBM Integration Bus
5 6 (3.80%) RESTful
6 5 (3.16%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.16%) ISPF
6 5 (3.16%) Kafka
6 5 (3.16%) LDAP
6 5 (3.16%) REST
7 4 (2.53%) OAuth
8 3 (1.90%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.49%) Mainframe
2 14 (8.86%) Replication
3 8 (5.06%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.80%) AS400
4 6 (3.80%) Clustering
4 6 (3.80%) DataPower
5 5 (3.16%) Derivative
5 5 (3.16%) iSeries
5 5 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.16%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (3.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (2.53%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (2.53%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.27%) LPAR
8 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.52%) Linux
2 28 (17.72%) Windows
3 14 (8.86%) Unix
4 12 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (7.59%) Windows Server
5 10 (6.33%) zOS
6 6 (3.80%) Solaris
7 5 (3.16%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (2.53%) VMS
9 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.63%) AIX
10 1 (0.63%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.99%) DevOps
2 26 (16.46%) Agile
2 26 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (13.29%) CI/CD
4 19 (12.03%) Incident Management
5 15 (9.49%) Root Cause Analysis
6 14 (8.86%) Security Architecture
7 13 (8.23%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (7.59%) Data Management
8 12 (7.59%) SDLC
9 11 (6.96%) Migration
10 10 (6.33%) Change Data Capture
10 10 (6.33%) Data Security
10 10 (6.33%) ITIL
10 10 (6.33%) Risk Management
10 10 (6.33%) Software Testing
10 10 (6.33%) Task Automation
11 9 (5.70%) Data Architecture
11 9 (5.70%) High Availability
11 9 (5.70%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (22.78%) Python
2 34 (21.52%) Java
3 28 (17.72%) SQL
4 22 (13.92%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.43%) Bash
5 7 (4.43%) COBOL
6 6 (3.80%) RPG
6 6 (3.80%) Shell Script
7 5 (3.16%) Perl
7 5 (3.16%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.53%) C#
9 3 (1.90%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.90%) JCL
10 2 (1.27%) REXX
10 2 (1.27%) SELCOPY
10 2 (1.27%) VBScript
11 1 (0.63%) Go
11 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.63%) RPG IV
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.63%) CISSP
5 1 (0.63%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.63%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.06%) QA
2 6 (3.80%) GDPR
3 5 (3.16%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.90%) NIST
4 3 (1.90%) SLA
5 2 (1.27%) GRC
5 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (8.86%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.06%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.43%) RACF
5 5 (3.16%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.53%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.27%) vSphere
9 1 (0.63%) ACF2
9 1 (0.63%) NFS
9 1 (0.63%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 22 (13.92%) Ansible
2 15 (9.49%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.96%) Terraform
4 9 (5.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (5.06%) Grafana
5 8 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (4.43%) ITRS Geneos
7 6 (3.80%) Tivoli
7 6 (3.80%) zSecure
8 5 (3.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 5 (3.16%) Netcool
9 4 (2.53%) CA Endevor
10 3 (1.90%) Control-M
11 2 (1.27%) Kibana
11 2 (1.27%) logstash
11 2 (1.27%) Packer
11 2 (1.27%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.63%) OMEGAMON
12 1 (0.63%) QRadar
12 1 (0.63%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 35 (22.15%) Oracle
2 20 (12.66%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.49%) SAP
4 12 (7.59%) Okta
5 11 (6.96%) Dynatrace
6 10 (6.33%) Dell
6 10 (6.33%) HP
6 10 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 10 (6.33%) VMware
7 7 (4.43%) Cisco
7 7 (4.43%) Red Hat
7 7 (4.43%) TIBCO
8 6 (3.80%) CyberArk
8 6 (3.80%) Temenos
9 5 (3.16%) EMC
9 5 (3.16%) Isilon
9 5 (3.16%) Qualys
9 5 (3.16%) Splunk
9 5 (3.16%) Sun
9 5 (3.16%) Veritas