IBM Contracts in the North of England

IBM
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 120 155 199
Rank change year-on-year +35 +44 -64
Contract jobs citing IBM 65 47 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.34% 0.86% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 3.22% 2.10% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 42
10th Percentile £400 £290 £400
25th Percentile £407 £350 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £616 £631
90th Percentile £625 £650 £750
England median daily rate £525 £510 £575
% change year-on-year +2.94% -11.30% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.50
Median hourly rate - - £39.00
75th Percentile - - £41.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% +45.45% +10.00%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,016 2,243 2,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.61% 41.22% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,476 1,871
10th Percentile £251 £220 £180
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £650 £688 £645
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 77 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.74 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.70 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% +53.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £43.75 £36.19
90th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +33 49 £430 -22.87% 10
North West +10 13 £539 +65.85% 5
North East - 3 £400 -
IBM
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (23.08%) SAS
2 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 6 (9.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (4.62%) IIS
4 2 (3.08%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (3.08%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.54%) Apache
5 1 (1.54%) JBoss
5 1 (1.54%) nginx
5 1 (1.54%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (10.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (12.31%) Temenos T24
2 3 (4.62%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) Apigee
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) GitHub
2 7 (10.77%) Kong
3 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) SSL
2 5 (7.69%) DWDM
3 1 (1.54%) DNS
3 1 (1.54%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) MongoDB
1 7 (10.77%) OLAP
1 7 (10.77%) OLTP
2 6 (9.23%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (4.62%) DB2
3 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.08%) Informix
5 1 (1.54%) Adabas
5 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.92%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Legal
7 1 (1.54%) Automotive
7 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Programmer
2 15 (23.08%) Systems Programmer
2 15 (23.08%) z/OS Systems Programmer
3 13 (20.00%) Storage Manager
4 7 (10.77%) Architect
4 7 (10.77%) AWS Architect
5 5 (7.69%) Lead
6 4 (6.15%) Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Pega Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) z/OS Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Administrator
8 2 (3.08%) Build Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) DBA
8 2 (3.08%) Hardware Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Informix DBA
8 2 (3.08%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
9 1 (1.54%) Storage Administrator
9 1 (1.54%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) ISPF
2 15 (23.08%) Kafka
3 8 (12.31%) IBM Integration Bus
4 7 (10.77%) J2EE
4 7 (10.77%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (10.77%) SOAP
4 7 (10.77%) Web Services
4 7 (10.77%) YAML
5 6 (9.23%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (9.23%) Apache Camel
5 6 (9.23%) Spring
5 6 (9.23%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.23%) Spring Integration
6 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
6 3 (4.62%) CSS
6 3 (4.62%) HTML
6 3 (4.62%) JSON
6 3 (4.62%) Middleware
6 3 (4.62%) REST
6 3 (4.62%) XHTML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.92%) Mainframe
2 7 (10.77%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) DataPower
3 6 (9.23%) LPAR
4 3 (4.62%) Low-Code
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 34 (52.31%) zOS
2 19 (29.23%) Linux
3 9 (13.85%) Windows
4 3 (4.62%) AIX
4 3 (4.62%) Unix
5 2 (3.08%) HPUX
5 2 (3.08%) Solaris
6 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 15 (23.08%) Performance Monitoring
2 15 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 15 (23.08%) Storage Management
3 12 (18.46%) Agile
3 12 (18.46%) DevOps
4 10 (15.38%) API Management
4 10 (15.38%) Microservices
4 10 (15.38%) OO
5 9 (13.85%) Project Management
5 9 (13.85%) Software Testing
6 8 (12.31%) Cost Management
6 8 (12.31%) Problem Management
6 8 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (10.77%) CQRS
7 7 (10.77%) Design Patterns
7 7 (10.77%) Enterprise Architecture
7 7 (10.77%) Event-Driven
7 7 (10.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 7 (10.77%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) JCL
2 27 (41.54%) REXX
3 12 (18.46%) Assembly Language
4 10 (15.38%) Java
4 10 (15.38%) Python
5 6 (9.23%) CLIST
6 4 (6.15%) SQL
7 3 (4.62%) C#
7 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) COBOL
8 1 (1.54%) Natural
8 1 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.08%) Degree
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 31 (47.69%) Time Sharing Option
2 11 (16.92%) ACF2
2 11 (16.92%) RACF
3 8 (12.31%) NFS
4 6 (9.23%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 6 (9.23%) Microcode
5 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (21.54%) Ansible
1 14 (21.54%) OMEGAMON
1 14 (21.54%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 6 (9.23%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.54%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (35.38%) Broadcom
2 13 (20.00%) Splunk
3 11 (16.92%) CA
4 9 (13.85%) Dell
4 9 (13.85%) Oracle
5 8 (12.31%) Brocade
6 7 (10.77%) TSYS
7 6 (9.23%) ServiceNow
7 6 (9.23%) Solace
8 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
8 3 (4.62%) Nintex
8 3 (4.62%) Pega
8 3 (4.62%) SAP
8 3 (4.62%) VMware
9 2 (3.08%) F5
9 2 (3.08%) Sun
10 1 (1.54%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.54%) Temenos