IBM Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 234 236
Rank change year-on-year +49 +2 -41
Contract jobs citing IBM 240 208 313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.13% 0.92% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.67% 2.04% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 134 219
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £407 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.31% -2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £600
90th Percentile £688 £668 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 2 15
10th Percentile £51.40 £58.63 £39.90
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.19 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +25.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £74.69 -
90th Percentile - £77.88 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% +22.73% +12.82%

All Vendors
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +35 65 £462 -2.84% 15
South East +31 62 £500 - 28
South West +38 54 £650 +44.44% 10
Yorkshire +33 49 £430 -22.87% 10
East of England +19 23 £513 +25.61% 15
Midlands +13 21 £377 -22.77% 6
West Midlands +21 19 £377 -23.75% 4
Scotland +2 17 £463 -13.95% 6
North West +10 13 £539 +65.85% 5
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +1 2 - - 2
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 28 (11.67%) SAS
2 11 (4.58%) CICS
3 9 (3.75%) WebSphere
4 8 (3.33%) Confluence
5 6 (2.50%) Appian
5 6 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (2.08%) IBM HTTP Server
6 5 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
6 5 (2.08%) WebSphere Portal
7 3 (1.25%) IIS
8 2 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.83%) FileNet
8 2 (0.83%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.42%) Apache
9 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.42%) CMS
9 1 (0.42%) JBoss
9 1 (0.42%) nginx
9 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 9 (3.75%) Maximo
2 8 (3.33%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.00%) AWS
2 11 (4.58%) Azure
3 10 (4.17%) SaaS
4 9 (3.75%) PaaS
5 8 (3.33%) Apigee
6 7 (2.92%) GitHub
6 7 (2.92%) Kong
7 5 (2.08%) Unqork
8 3 (1.25%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.83%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.42%) GCP
10 1 (0.42%) IBM Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) OCI
10 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.50%) SAN
2 9 (3.75%) HTTP
2 9 (3.75%) PBX
2 9 (3.75%) VoIP
3 8 (3.33%) WAN
4 7 (2.92%) SDH
5 6 (2.50%) SSL
6 5 (2.08%) DWDM
7 4 (1.67%) Firewall
7 4 (1.67%) Junos
8 3 (1.25%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.25%) NX-OS
9 2 (0.83%) Network Security
9 2 (0.83%) VPN
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.42%) DNS
10 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.08%) DB2
2 12 (5.00%) IDMS
3 8 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 7 (2.92%) OLAP
4 7 (2.92%) OLTP
5 6 (2.50%) Oracle OLAP
6 3 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.25%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.83%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.83%) Informix
8 1 (0.42%) Adabas
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.42%) Metadata
8 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 29 (12.08%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (6.25%) Rational Rhapsody
3 13 (5.42%) Git
4 11 (4.58%) JIRA
5 7 (2.92%) IBM UrbanCode
5 7 (2.92%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.83%) JUnit
6 2 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.83%) Subversion
7 1 (0.42%) GitLab
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 51 (21.25%) Social Skills
2 28 (11.67%) Finance
3 21 (8.75%) Telecoms
4 18 (7.50%) Banking
5 17 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.83%) Aerospace
7 13 (5.42%) Electronics
8 7 (2.92%) Aeronautics
8 7 (2.92%) Digital Economy
9 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.67%) German Language
9 4 (1.67%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Billing
11 2 (0.83%) Advertising
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Aviation
11 2 (0.83%) Law
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (14.58%) Architect
1 35 (14.58%) Software Engineer
2 33 (13.75%) Embedded Engineer
2 33 (13.75%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 26 (10.83%) Developer
4 22 (9.17%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.67%) Programmer
6 15 (6.25%) Systems Programmer
6 15 (6.25%) z/OS Systems Programmer
7 13 (5.42%) Storage Manager
8 12 (5.00%) Applications Specialist
8 12 (5.00%) Applications Support
8 12 (5.00%) Applications Support Specialist
8 12 (5.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
8 12 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (5.00%) Junior
8 12 (5.00%) Junior Applications Support
8 12 (5.00%) Mainframe Developer
8 12 (5.00%) Support Specialist
9 11 (4.58%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.08%) ISPF
2 23 (9.58%) Kafka
3 14 (5.83%) Flash
4 13 (5.42%) Web Services
5 12 (5.00%) J2EE
5 12 (5.00%) SOAP
6 10 (4.17%) REST
6 10 (4.17%) Spring
7 9 (3.75%) Spring Boot
8 8 (3.33%) IBM Integration Bus
8 8 (3.33%) Middleware
8 8 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.92%) YAML
10 6 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
10 6 (2.50%) Apache Camel
10 6 (2.50%) Spring Integration
11 5 (2.08%) JSON
11 5 (2.08%) RESTful
12 4 (1.67%) BAPI
12 4 (1.67%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.92%) Mainframe
2 25 (10.42%) ARM Cortex
3 19 (7.92%) IBM Mainframe
4 13 (5.42%) Driving Licence
5 12 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 12 (5.00%) DataPower
6 9 (3.75%) Blackberry
6 9 (3.75%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.50%) LPAR
9 5 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.67%) iSeries
10 4 (1.67%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.25%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.25%) IBM XIV
11 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 67 (27.92%) Linux
2 52 (21.67%) zOS
3 25 (10.42%) FreeRTOS
4 23 (9.58%) Unix
5 16 (6.67%) AIX
6 11 (4.58%) Windows
7 9 (3.75%) Solaris
8 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.83%) HPUX
9 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.25%) Software Engineering
2 38 (15.83%) Agile
2 38 (15.83%) ITIL
3 32 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (11.25%) Configuration Management
4 27 (11.25%) Enterprise Architecture
5 26 (10.83%) Risk Management
5 26 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (10.83%) TOGAF
6 20 (8.33%) ArchiMate
7 18 (7.50%) Roadmaps
8 16 (6.67%) BPMN
8 16 (6.67%) Decision-Making
8 16 (6.67%) Project Management
8 16 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
9 15 (6.25%) Architecture Governance
9 15 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
9 15 (6.25%) Storage Management
9 15 (6.25%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.33%) REXX
2 39 (16.25%) C
2 39 (16.25%) JCL
3 25 (10.42%) Embedded C
4 22 (9.17%) Java
5 17 (7.08%) CLIST
5 17 (7.08%) Python
6 15 (6.25%) COBOL
7 14 (5.83%) Assembly Language
7 14 (5.83%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.58%) Ada
9 10 (4.17%) SELCOPY
10 8 (3.33%) SQL
11 6 (2.50%) JavaScript
12 5 (2.08%) C++
13 4 (1.67%) ABAP
14 3 (1.25%) C#
15 2 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.83%) R
15 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (38.75%) Security Cleared
2 79 (32.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (9.58%) Degree
4 16 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (4.58%) HND
7 10 (4.17%) CCNP
7 10 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.08%) IBM Certification
9 4 (1.67%) JNCIA
10 3 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.42%) CCIE
12 1 (0.42%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.67%) Def Stans
1 4 (1.67%) DO-178B
2 3 (1.25%) MISRA
3 2 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.42%) IEC 61508
4 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 37 (15.42%) Time Sharing Option
2 13 (5.42%) ACF2
2 13 (5.42%) RACF
3 11 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.33%) NFS
5 7 (2.92%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 6 (2.50%) Microcode
7 4 (1.67%) Firmware
8 3 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (10.42%) Ansible
2 18 (7.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 15 (6.25%) Netcool
4 14 (5.83%) OMEGAMON
5 8 (3.33%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.92%) Rancher
6 7 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 7 (2.92%) SCOM
6 7 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.92%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 3 (1.25%) Terraform
8 2 (0.83%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.42%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.42%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 29 (12.08%) Broadcom
2 25 (10.42%) Brocade
2 25 (10.42%) Lauterbach
3 24 (10.00%) Cisco
4 23 (9.58%) Nokia
5 20 (8.33%) Juniper
5 20 (8.33%) Oracle
6 16 (6.67%) Dell
7 15 (6.25%) Microsoft
8 14 (5.83%) VMware
9 13 (5.42%) SAP
9 13 (5.42%) Splunk
10 11 (4.58%) CA
10 11 (4.58%) Syncsort
11 10 (4.17%) Google
12 9 (3.75%) Avaya
12 9 (3.75%) Ericsson
12 9 (3.75%) Ribbon
13 8 (3.33%) Pega
13 8 (3.33%) Red Hat