IBM Contracts in the West Midlands

IBM
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 92 113 155
Rank change year-on-year +21 +42 -50
Contract jobs citing IBM 19 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.93% 0.72% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 2.12% 1.51% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 16
10th Percentile £328 £346 £438
25th Percentile £358 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% -5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £638
90th Percentile £746 £627 £763
England median daily rate £525 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +2.94% -11.30% +15.00%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 898 1,057 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.98% 47.76% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 661 1,070
10th Percentile £251 £206 £200
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 27 25
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.99 £12.56
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.82 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +17.65% +5.43%
75th Percentile £28.75 £50.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £56.00 £78.60 £23.75
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire +5 10 £358 - 1
Birmingham +14 3 £450 -30.77% 2
Warwickshire -7 2 £600 +17.07%
Staffordshire +5 1 - -
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (47.37%) CICS
1 9 (47.37%) SAS
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Maximo
2 2 (10.53%) NetSuite
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) SDH
1 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) DB2
2 9 (47.37%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (10.53%) Rational DOORS
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Billing
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Aeronautics
3 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 10 (52.63%) Mainframe Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Maximo Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) IBM Mainframe
1 10 (52.63%) Mainframe
2 3 (15.79%) DataPower
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) zOS
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) Scrum
3 10 (52.63%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (52.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.53%) Business Transformation
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.53%) CRM
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) ERP
5 2 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) Data Extraction
6 1 (5.26%) ETL
6 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
6 1 (5.26%) Validation
6 1 (5.26%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) COBOL
2 9 (47.37%) CLIST
2 9 (47.37%) REXX
2 9 (47.37%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Syncsort
2 5 (26.32%) SAP
3 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 4 (21.05%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.53%) MuleSoft
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) ICL
5 1 (5.26%) Juniper
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) Nokia