IBM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 292 247
Rank change year-on-year +76 -45 -30
Contract jobs citing IBM 462 510 1,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.09% 0.89% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 2.55% 2.07% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 310 640
10th Percentile £368 £375 £400
25th Percentile £419 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +15.31%
75th Percentile £647 £632 £638
90th Percentile £750 £701 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £471 £488 £491
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.76% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 16 14
10th Percentile £59.00 £47.50 £36.72
25th Percentile £65.53 £54.06 £39.86
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +38.46% -2.50%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.82% +30.95% +5.00%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +113 395 £525 +0.48% 194
UK excluding London +74 242 £471 -3.38% 116
Work from Home +45 168 £500 -4.31% 63
London +71 164 £594 +10.47% 79
North of England +73 87 £430 -9.47% 27
Yorkshire +57 71 £430 -28.33% 10
South West +42 48 £650 +52.94% 19
South East +26 47 £525 +5.00% 37
Midlands +9 23 £403 -10.50% 14
Scotland +3 23 £500 -9.09% 4
West Midlands +22 21 £403 -10.50% 7
East of England +19 16 £525 +28.68% 21
North West +10 13 £539 +65.85% 17
North East - 3 £400 -
East Midlands +8 2 - - 7

IBM
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 44 (9.52%) SAS
2 29 (6.28%) WebSphere
3 19 (4.11%) CICS
4 15 (3.25%) JBoss
4 15 (3.25%) WebSphere Application Server
5 14 (3.03%) Confluence
6 12 (2.60%) IIS
6 12 (2.60%) Tomcat
7 10 (2.16%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.95%) Apache
8 9 (1.95%) nginx
9 8 (1.73%) IBM HTTP Server
9 8 (1.73%) MQSeries
9 8 (1.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (1.73%) WebSphere Portal
10 7 (1.52%) Appian
11 4 (0.87%) CMS
12 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.43%) FileNet
Applications
1 8 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.22%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.22%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (3.46%) Temenos T24
2 12 (2.60%) Maximo
3 7 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.43%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 63 (13.64%) AWS
2 42 (9.09%) Azure
3 22 (4.76%) GitHub
4 17 (3.68%) PaaS
4 17 (3.68%) SaaS
5 16 (3.46%) GCP
6 9 (1.95%) Apigee
7 8 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.73%) IaaS
7 8 (1.73%) Nutanix
8 7 (1.52%) Kong
9 6 (1.30%) Rubrik
10 4 (0.87%) Alation
10 4 (0.87%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.87%) IBM Cloud
10 4 (0.87%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.65%) OCI
11 3 (0.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (6.71%) SAN
2 28 (6.06%) SSL
3 18 (3.90%) DNS
3 18 (3.90%) Firewall
4 10 (2.16%) HTTP
5 9 (1.95%) DWDM
5 9 (1.95%) PBX
5 9 (1.95%) VoIP
6 8 (1.73%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.73%) WAN
7 7 (1.52%) NAS
7 7 (1.52%) SDH
8 6 (1.30%) DHCP
8 6 (1.30%) Kerberos
8 6 (1.30%) VLAN
9 4 (0.87%) Fibre Channel
9 4 (0.87%) iSCSI
9 4 (0.87%) Junos
10 3 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.65%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (11.47%) DB2
2 26 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 17 (3.68%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.25%) IDMS
4 15 (3.25%) RDBMS
5 11 (2.38%) MongoDB
6 7 (1.52%) OLAP
6 7 (1.52%) OLTP
7 6 (1.30%) Oracle OLAP
8 5 (1.08%) Metadata
8 5 (1.08%) MySQL
8 5 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.08%) SAP HANA
8 5 (1.08%) Sybase ASE
9 4 (0.87%) Big Data
9 4 (0.87%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.65%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.43%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (8.01%) Jenkins
2 29 (6.28%) Git
3 24 (5.19%) Rational DOORS
4 20 (4.33%) JIRA
5 13 (2.81%) IBM UrbanCode
5 13 (2.81%) Rational Rhapsody
6 8 (1.73%) Selenium
7 7 (1.52%) JUnit
8 6 (1.30%) GitLab
8 6 (1.30%) TeamCity
9 5 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.08%) Mockito
10 4 (0.87%) Appium
10 4 (0.87%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.87%) Rational Performance Tester
10 4 (0.87%) Vagrant
10 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.87%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.65%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.65%) Katalon Studio
General
1 150 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.21%) Finance
3 55 (11.90%) Banking
4 43 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.81%) Electronics
8 12 (2.60%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.16%) Front Office
10 8 (1.73%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.52%) Aeronautics
11 7 (1.52%) Digital Economy
12 5 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.08%) Private Banking
13 4 (0.87%) German Language
13 4 (0.87%) Legal
13 4 (0.87%) Military
13 4 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (17.32%) Architect
2 61 (13.20%) Developer
3 32 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
4 30 (6.49%) Software Engineer
5 29 (6.28%) Senior
6 28 (6.06%) Storage Manager
7 27 (5.84%) Embedded Engineer
7 27 (5.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 23 (4.98%) Applications Support
9 22 (4.76%) Programmer
10 21 (4.55%) Systems Programmer
10 21 (4.55%) z/OS Systems Programmer
11 20 (4.33%) Analyst
11 20 (4.33%) Lead
12 19 (4.11%) Mainframe Developer
13 18 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (3.68%) Security Architect
15 16 (3.46%) Consultant
16 15 (3.25%) Applications Specialist
17 14 (3.03%) IBM Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (11.47%) ISPF
2 28 (6.06%) Kafka
3 22 (4.76%) Middleware
3 22 (4.76%) Spring
4 21 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 19 (4.11%) YAML
6 18 (3.90%) Flash
6 18 (3.90%) IBM Integration Bus
6 18 (3.90%) SOAP
7 17 (3.68%) Web Services
8 15 (3.25%) J2EE
8 15 (3.25%) REST
9 14 (3.03%) OpenID
10 13 (2.81%) ActiveMQ
10 13 (2.81%) XACML
11 12 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
12 11 (2.38%) SAML
12 11 (2.38%) XML
13 10 (2.16%) Apache Camel
13 10 (2.16%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 83 (17.97%) Mainframe
2 33 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 29 (6.28%) IBM Mainframe
4 21 (4.55%) DataPower
5 19 (4.11%) ARM Cortex
6 17 (3.68%) LPAR
6 17 (3.68%) Replication
7 9 (1.95%) Blackberry
7 9 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
8 8 (1.73%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.52%) Clustering
10 6 (1.30%) AS400
10 6 (1.30%) iSeries
10 6 (1.30%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.08%) Derivative
11 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.08%) OTC Derivatives
11 5 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 125 (27.06%) Linux
2 101 (21.86%) zOS
3 58 (12.55%) Windows
4 42 (9.09%) Unix
5 24 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (4.76%) Windows Server
7 21 (4.55%) AIX
8 19 (4.11%) FreeRTOS
9 17 (3.68%) Solaris
10 6 (1.30%) Oracle Linux
11 4 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
11 4 (0.87%) VMS
12 2 (0.43%) Android
12 2 (0.43%) HPUX
12 2 (0.43%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (17.97%) Agile
2 58 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (11.90%) Risk Management
4 52 (11.26%) DevOps
5 48 (10.39%) ITIL
6 46 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 46 (9.96%) Storage Management
7 41 (8.87%) Software Engineering
8 40 (8.66%) CI/CD
9 37 (8.01%) Project Management
10 36 (7.79%) Problem Management
11 31 (6.71%) Migration
11 31 (6.71%) Software Testing
12 28 (6.06%) Enterprise Architecture
13 27 (5.84%) Roadmaps
14 26 (5.63%) Continuous Integration
14 26 (5.63%) TOGAF
15 25 (5.41%) Performance Monitoring
16 24 (5.19%) Computer Science
16 24 (5.19%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (16.67%) REXX
2 75 (16.23%) JCL
3 74 (16.02%) Python
4 66 (14.29%) Java
5 49 (10.61%) SQL
6 33 (7.14%) C
7 30 (6.49%) PowerShell
8 28 (6.06%) CLIST
9 26 (5.63%) COBOL
10 22 (4.76%) Assembly Language
11 19 (4.11%) Embedded C
11 19 (4.11%) Shell Script
12 15 (3.25%) SELCOPY
13 12 (2.60%) Ada
14 11 (2.38%) JavaScript
15 10 (2.16%) Bash
16 9 (1.95%) Perl
17 8 (1.73%) C#
17 8 (1.73%) RPG
18 7 (1.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 110 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 95 (20.56%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.01%) Degree
4 16 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
7 11 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.38%) HND
8 10 (2.16%) CCNP
9 5 (1.08%) IBM Certification
10 4 (0.87%) JNCIA
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.65%) PMP
11 3 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.22%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.22%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.73%) QA
2 7 (1.52%) Data Quality
2 7 (1.52%) GDPR
3 6 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.08%) Def Stans
4 5 (1.08%) DO-178B
5 3 (0.65%) MISRA
5 3 (0.65%) NIST
5 3 (0.65%) SLA
6 2 (0.43%) GRC
6 2 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 74 (16.02%) Time Sharing Option
2 27 (5.84%) NFS
3 24 (5.19%) RACF
4 21 (4.55%) Docker
5 20 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (3.90%) ACF2
7 13 (2.81%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 13 (2.81%) Microcode
8 11 (2.38%) Active Directory
9 8 (1.73%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (1.30%) Hyper-V
11 5 (1.08%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 4 (0.87%) Firmware
12 4 (0.87%) GPFS
13 2 (0.43%) vSphere
14 1 (0.22%) Lustre
14 1 (0.22%) PowerHA
14 1 (0.22%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 63 (13.64%) Ansible
2 41 (8.87%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 25 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 25 (5.41%) OMEGAMON
4 18 (3.90%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (3.68%) Netcool
5 17 (3.68%) Terraform
6 10 (2.16%) Tivoli
7 9 (1.95%) Grafana
8 8 (1.73%) ITRS Geneos
9 6 (1.30%) CA Endevor
9 6 (1.30%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.30%) zSecure
10 5 (1.08%) Rancher
10 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.08%) SCOM
10 5 (1.08%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 4 (0.87%) Control-M
11 4 (0.87%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 3 (0.65%) logstash
Vendors
1 67 (14.50%) Oracle
2 56 (12.12%) Broadcom
3 43 (9.31%) Dell
4 42 (9.09%) Brocade
4 42 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 33 (7.14%) CA
5 33 (7.14%) Cisco
6 31 (6.71%) SAP
7 26 (5.63%) Splunk
8 23 (4.98%) Nokia
8 23 (4.98%) VMware
9 20 (4.33%) Google
9 20 (4.33%) Juniper
10 19 (4.11%) Lauterbach
10 19 (4.11%) ServiceNow
11 17 (3.68%) Okta
12 16 (3.46%) HP
12 16 (3.46%) Red Hat
12 16 (3.46%) Syncsort
13 15 (3.25%) Dynatrace