IBM Contracts in London

IBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 229 300 262
Rank change year-on-year +71 -38 -27
Contract jobs citing IBM 164 194 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.94% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Vendors category 2.29% 1.89% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 132 280
10th Percentile £419 £438 £425
25th Percentile £475 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £538 £590
Median % change year-on-year +10.47% -8.90% +12.38%
75th Percentile £741 £641 £725
90th Percentile £850 £750 £804
England median daily rate £525 £523 £575
% change year-on-year +0.48% -9.13% +15.00%

All Vendors
London

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 advertised in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,156 10,265 14,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.95% 39.45% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 7,272 10,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +4.05% +6.80%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 126 180
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £16.95
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -25.71% +31.33%
75th Percentile £35.69 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.38 £70.00 £60.63
England median hourly rate £22.08 £35.00 £21.35
% change year-on-year -36.93% +63.93% +1.67%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in London

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Contract Job Locations in 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 London region 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
Central London +60 35 £606 -13.39% 1
East London - 2 £473 - 8
West London +20 1 - -
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (10.37%) WebSphere
2 8 (4.88%) MQSeries
2 8 (4.88%) Tomcat
2 8 (4.88%) WebLogic
3 7 (4.27%) JBoss
4 6 (3.66%) Confluence
4 6 (3.66%) IIS
4 6 (3.66%) WebSphere Application Server
5 5 (3.05%) Apache
5 5 (3.05%) CICS
5 5 (3.05%) nginx
6 4 (2.44%) Appian
7 3 (1.83%) CMS
8 2 (1.22%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.61%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.61%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.61%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.61%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.61%) Weka
Business Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Temenos T24
2 4 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.83%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.61%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.29%) AWS
2 21 (12.80%) Azure
3 15 (9.15%) GCP
4 8 (4.88%) Nutanix
4 8 (4.88%) SaaS
5 7 (4.27%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.27%) IaaS
5 7 (4.27%) PaaS
6 6 (3.66%) Rubrik
7 4 (2.44%) Alation
7 4 (2.44%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.83%) GitHub
8 3 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.22%) Collibra
9 2 (1.22%) OCI
10 1 (0.61%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.61%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.61%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.37%) SSL
2 14 (8.54%) DNS
3 11 (6.71%) Firewall
4 9 (5.49%) SAN
5 8 (4.88%) TCP/IP
6 7 (4.27%) NAS
7 6 (3.66%) DHCP
7 6 (3.66%) Kerberos
7 6 (3.66%) VLAN
8 1 (0.61%) AMQP
8 1 (0.61%) HTTP
8 1 (0.61%) IPsec
8 1 (0.61%) MPLS
8 1 (0.61%) S/MIME
8 1 (0.61%) SMTP
8 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (14.02%) DB2
2 21 (12.80%) Relational Database
3 10 (6.10%) RDBMS
4 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.05%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.05%) Sybase ASE
6 4 (2.44%) Big Data
6 4 (2.44%) Metadata
6 4 (2.44%) MySQL
6 4 (2.44%) SAP HANA
7 3 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.22%) NonStop SQL
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.61%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.61%) Ataccama
9 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.61%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 12 (7.32%) Git
3 9 (5.49%) JIRA
4 7 (4.27%) Selenium
5 6 (3.66%) IBM UrbanCode
5 6 (3.66%) TeamCity
6 5 (3.05%) GitLab
7 4 (2.44%) Appium
7 4 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.44%) JUnit
7 4 (2.44%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.44%) Mockito
7 4 (2.44%) Rational Performance Tester
7 4 (2.44%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.44%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.83%) HP UFT
8 3 (1.83%) Katalon Studio
9 2 (1.22%) Maven
9 2 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.22%) Postman
General
1 55 (33.54%) Finance
2 53 (32.32%) Social Skills
3 30 (18.29%) Banking
4 19 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.10%) Front Office
6 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.05%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.05%) Private Banking
8 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.83%) Back Office
9 3 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.61%) Advertising
11 1 (0.61%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.61%) Danish Language
11 1 (0.61%) French Language
11 1 (0.61%) German Language
11 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Military
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (21.95%) Architect
2 27 (16.46%) Developer
3 20 (12.20%) Senior
4 18 (10.98%) Analyst
5 15 (9.15%) Security Architect
6 11 (6.71%) Applications Support
7 10 (6.10%) Senior Developer
7 10 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.88%) Applications Support Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Consultant
8 8 (4.88%) SQL Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) SQL Support Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Support Analyst
9 7 (4.27%) DBA
9 7 (4.27%) Mainframe Architect
9 7 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (3.66%) Support Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) Applications Specialist
11 5 (3.05%) RPG Developer
11 5 (3.05%) Server Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.71%) OpenID
1 11 (6.71%) Spring Boot
2 10 (6.10%) Spring
2 10 (6.10%) XACML
3 8 (4.88%) FpML
3 8 (4.88%) Middleware
3 8 (4.88%) SAML
3 8 (4.88%) XML
4 7 (4.27%) SOAP
4 7 (4.27%) Web Services
4 7 (4.27%) WebSphere MQ
5 6 (3.66%) IBM Integration Bus
5 6 (3.66%) LDAP
5 6 (3.66%) RESTful
6 5 (3.05%) ActiveMQ
6 5 (3.05%) ISPF
6 5 (3.05%) REST
7 4 (2.44%) Apache Camel
7 4 (2.44%) Kafka
7 4 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.15%) Mainframe
1 15 (9.15%) Replication
2 9 (5.49%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.27%) Clustering
4 6 (3.66%) AS400
4 6 (3.66%) DataPower
5 5 (3.05%) Derivative
5 5 (3.05%) iSeries
5 5 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.05%) OTC Derivatives
5 5 (3.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (2.44%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
7 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.22%) LPAR
8 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (24.39%) Linux
2 34 (20.73%) Windows
3 14 (8.54%) Unix
4 13 (7.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (7.93%) Windows Server
5 10 (6.10%) zOS
6 7 (4.27%) Solaris
7 6 (3.66%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.83%) VMS
9 2 (1.22%) Windows 10
9 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.61%) AIX
10 1 (0.61%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.29%) DevOps
2 28 (17.07%) Agile
3 26 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (14.02%) CI/CD
5 20 (12.20%) Incident Management
6 17 (10.37%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (9.76%) Root Cause Analysis
8 14 (8.54%) Data Management
8 14 (8.54%) Security Architecture
9 12 (7.32%) Migration
9 12 (7.32%) SDLC
10 11 (6.71%) Data Security
10 11 (6.71%) Risk Management
11 10 (6.10%) High Availability
11 10 (6.10%) ITIL
11 10 (6.10%) Software Testing
11 10 (6.10%) Storage Management
11 10 (6.10%) Task Automation
11 10 (6.10%) Workflow
12 9 (5.49%) Change Data Capture
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.95%) Python
2 35 (21.34%) Java
3 29 (17.68%) SQL
4 24 (14.63%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.49%) Bash
6 7 (4.27%) COBOL
7 6 (3.66%) RPG
7 6 (3.66%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.05%) Perl
8 5 (3.05%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.44%) C#
10 3 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.83%) JCL
11 2 (1.22%) C++
11 2 (1.22%) REXX
11 2 (1.22%) SELCOPY
11 2 (1.22%) VBScript
12 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.61%) RPG IV
12 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.93%) Degree
4 7 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.61%) CISSP
5 1 (0.61%) CSSLP
5 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.61%) IBM Certification
5 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) QA
2 7 (4.27%) GDPR
3 6 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (3.05%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.83%) SLA
6 2 (1.22%) GRC
6 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 14 (8.54%) Docker
2 11 (6.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (5.49%) Active Directory
4 7 (4.27%) RACF
5 5 (3.05%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.44%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.22%) vSphere
9 1 (0.61%) ACF2
9 1 (0.61%) Lustre
9 1 (0.61%) NFS
9 1 (0.61%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 23 (14.02%) Ansible
2 15 (9.15%) Kubernetes
3 13 (7.93%) Terraform
4 10 (6.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 9 (5.49%) Grafana
6 8 (4.88%) ITRS Geneos
6 8 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (4.27%) Tivoli
8 6 (3.66%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (3.66%) Netcool
8 6 (3.66%) zSecure
9 4 (2.44%) CA Endevor
10 3 (1.83%) Control-M
11 2 (1.22%) Kibana
11 2 (1.22%) logstash
11 2 (1.22%) Packer
11 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.61%) OMEGAMON
12 1 (0.61%) QRadar
12 1 (0.61%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 35 (21.34%) Oracle
2 22 (13.41%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.54%) SAP
4 13 (7.93%) Okta
5 12 (7.32%) Dynatrace
6 11 (6.71%) Dell
6 11 (6.71%) HP
6 11 (6.71%) ServiceNow
6 11 (6.71%) VMware
7 9 (5.49%) Cisco
8 7 (4.27%) CyberArk
8 7 (4.27%) Red Hat
8 7 (4.27%) TIBCO
9 6 (3.66%) EMC
9 6 (3.66%) Isilon
9 6 (3.66%) Qualys
9 6 (3.66%) Serena
9 6 (3.66%) Splunk
9 6 (3.66%) Temenos
10 5 (3.05%) Google