IBM Contracts in Central London

IBM
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 105 164 154
Rank change year-on-year +59 -10 -21
Contract jobs citing IBM 32 13 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.32% 0.35% 0.92%
As % of the Vendors category 3.08% 0.88% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 27
10th Percentile £468 £425 £491
25th Percentile £550 £510 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £795 £750 £716
90th Percentile £945 - £788
London median daily rate £600 £525 £593
% change year-on-year +14.29% -11.39% +10.23%

All Vendors
Central London

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 requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,038 1,471 1,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.91% 40.09% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 982 1,308
10th Percentile £318 £231 £287
25th Percentile £450 £433 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £744
London median daily rate £538 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 21
10th Percentile £12.75 £15.30 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.19 £19.32 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £37.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.00% +41.51% +84.57%
75th Percentile £24.56 £52.81 £44.75
90th Percentile £63.53 £53.23 £51.75
London median hourly rate £23.80 £28.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -16.49% -20.83% +33.33%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Central London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in Central London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Central London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Central London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Central London

IBM
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 13 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
City of London +59 32 £625 -10.71% 4
Southwark - 1 £700 -
IBM
London

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (15.63%) MQSeries
2 3 (9.38%) JBoss
2 3 (9.38%) Tomcat
2 3 (9.38%) WebSphere
3 2 (6.25%) Apache
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
3 2 (6.25%) nginx
3 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.13%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (3.13%) CICS
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Temenos T24
2 1 (3.13%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (3.13%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) Alation
3 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) GitHub
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (3.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) Relational Database
2 7 (21.88%) DB2
2 7 (21.88%) RDBMS
3 5 (15.63%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) Big Data
5 1 (3.13%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) HP UFT
1 2 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
1 2 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (46.88%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Private Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Arabic Language
7 1 (3.13%) French Language
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) German Language
7 1 (3.13%) Japanese Language
7 1 (3.13%) Korean Language
7 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.50%) AS400 Developer
4 4 (12.50%) DBA
4 4 (12.50%) RPG Developer
4 4 (12.50%) Sybase DBA
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
6 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
7 1 (3.13%) Data Governance Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Governance Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Integration Specialist
7 1 (3.13%) Quantitative Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Storage Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) TIBCO Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) OpenID
1 6 (18.75%) XACML
2 5 (15.63%) SAML
2 5 (15.63%) XML
3 4 (12.50%) SOAP
4 3 (9.38%) RESTful
5 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.25%) IBM Integration Bus
5 2 (6.25%) jQuery
5 2 (6.25%) Kafka
5 2 (6.25%) Spring
5 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.25%) Struts
5 2 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (6.25%) Web Services
6 1 (3.13%) ISPF
6 1 (3.13%) JSON
6 1 (3.13%) MDX
6 1 (3.13%) OAuth
6 1 (3.13%) TIBCO EMS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (15.63%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) AS400
2 4 (12.50%) iSeries
3 2 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Equities
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 6 (18.75%) Windows
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.25%) zOS
6 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (21.88%) Incident Management
3 6 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
3 6 (18.75%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) Agile
4 5 (15.63%) Fintech
4 5 (15.63%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (15.63%) Security Architecture
4 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
5 4 (12.50%) Change Control
5 4 (12.50%) DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (12.50%) Wealth Management
6 3 (9.38%) Software Testing
7 2 (6.25%) Analytics
7 2 (6.25%) API Development
7 2 (6.25%) Runbook
7 2 (6.25%) SDLC
7 2 (6.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) SQL
3 10 (31.25%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) Perl
4 5 (15.63%) T-SQL
5 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (12.50%) RPG
6 3 (9.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) COBOL
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.13%) JCL
7 1 (3.13%) VB
7 1 (3.13%) VBScript
7 1 (3.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) SEPA
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) NFS
3 1 (3.13%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 5 (15.63%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (12.50%) Control-M
4 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.13%) CA Endevor
5 1 (3.13%) Kibana
5 1 (3.13%) logstash
5 1 (3.13%) Packer
5 1 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (3.13%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (3.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle
2 6 (18.75%) Okta
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 5 (15.63%) Sun
3 5 (15.63%) Sybase
3 5 (15.63%) Veritas
4 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.38%) Temenos
5 2 (6.25%) Micro Focus
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.13%) Brocade
6 1 (3.13%) CA
6 1 (3.13%) Dell
6 1 (3.13%) Informatica
6 1 (3.13%) Symantec
6 1 (3.13%) Talend
6 1 (3.13%) Varonis