IBM UrbanCode Contracts

IBM UrbanCode
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IBM UrbanCode skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM UrbanCode over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 557 670 758
Rank change year-on-year +113 +88 -88
Contract jobs citing IBM UrbanCode 18 12 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.021% 0.091%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.35% 0.15% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 59
10th Percentile £410 £382 -
25th Percentile £440 £400 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £590
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -23.73% +15.40%
75th Percentile £738 £475 £750
90th Percentile £800 £620 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £390 £738
% change year-on-year +12.82% -47.12% +32.88%

All Development Application Skills
UK

IBM UrbanCode is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

IBM UrbanCode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM UrbanCode in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM UrbanCode in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM UrbanCode in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM UrbanCode within the UK 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
England +87 13 £575 +27.78% 3
Work from Home +119 9 £450 -7.69%
London +94 9 £550 +22.22% 1
UK excluding London +42 7 £440 +12.82% 2
Scotland - 5 £440 -
Yorkshire - 2 £725 - 1
North of England - 2 £725 - 1

IBM UrbanCode
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 15 (83.33%) WebSphere
2 13 (72.22%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (38.89%) WebLogic
4 6 (33.33%) IBM HTTP Server
4 6 (33.33%) WebSphere Portal
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (5.56%) Apache
6 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) SSL
2 6 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Data Mart
1 2 (11.11%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
2 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (33.33%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Applications Specialist
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
1 7 (38.89%) Server Specialist
1 7 (38.89%) WebSphere Server Specialist
1 7 (38.89%) WebSphere Specialist
2 6 (33.33%) Middleware Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Murex Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior WebSphere Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) WebSphere Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) J2EE
1 6 (33.33%) Middleware
1 6 (33.33%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) DataPower
2 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Deployment Automation
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Problem Management
3 5 (27.78%) Service Management
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Batch Processing
6 2 (11.11%) Batch Scheduling
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Workflow Management
7 1 (5.56%) Data Architecture
7 1 (5.56%) Data Modelling
7 1 (5.56%) Data Security
7 1 (5.56%) ETL
7 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
7 1 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) IBM
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Murex