IBM Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 14 June 2025, 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
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 209 228
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 0
Contract jobs citing IBM 117 138 257
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.20% 0.94% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 2.62% 2.20% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 83 158
10th Percentile £382 £358 £375
25th Percentile £411 £417 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £633
90th Percentile - £750 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £31.40 -
25th Percentile - £44.38 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year - +12.34% +30.56%
75th Percentile - £71.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - £75.20 -
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -64.18% +3.70% +22.73%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,461 6,259 10,483
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.82% 42.46% 43.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,967 7,037
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £720 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 204 249
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.42 £17.50
25th Percentile £25.13 £16.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.11 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +95.66% -46.46% +31.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £72.50 £79.05
UK median hourly rate £25.40 £22.90 £41.80
% change year-on-year +10.93% -45.22% +94.42%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IBM trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM.

IBM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IBM over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

IBM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IBM.

IBM hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (8.55%) Confluence
2 9 (7.69%) WebSphere
3 5 (4.27%) JBoss
3 5 (4.27%) MQSeries
3 5 (4.27%) WebSphere Application Server
4 4 (3.42%) CICS
5 3 (2.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (2.56%) Documentum
5 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 3 (2.56%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.71%) IIS
7 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.85%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.85%) CMS
7 1 (0.85%) DataSynapse
7 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.71%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (1.71%) Maximo
2 2 (1.71%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.37%) AWS
2 19 (16.24%) Azure
3 11 (9.40%) GCP
4 3 (2.56%) Alation
4 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (2.56%) OCI
4 3 (2.56%) SaaS
4 3 (2.56%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.71%) Azure API Management
5 2 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (1.71%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.71%) GitHub
5 2 (1.71%) IaaS
5 2 (1.71%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Nutanix
5 2 (1.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.71%) PaaS
5 2 (1.71%) Serverless
6 1 (0.85%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.13%) SAN
2 5 (4.27%) HTTPS
3 3 (2.56%) SSH
3 3 (2.56%) SSL
3 3 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.71%) DHCP
4 2 (1.71%) DNS
4 2 (1.71%) SNA
5 1 (0.85%) Firewall
5 1 (0.85%) FTP
5 1 (0.85%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.85%) NAS
5 1 (0.85%) SMS
5 1 (0.85%) VLAN
5 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.84%) DB2
1 8 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.98%) Oracle Database
3 5 (4.27%) IBM InfoSphere
4 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.56%) OLAP
4 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.71%) Big Data
5 2 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.71%) IMS/DB
5 2 (1.71%) MySQL
5 2 (1.71%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.85%) Adabas
6 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.85%) Informix
6 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (3.42%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.42%) GitLab
3 4 (3.42%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.71%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.85%) JUnit
5 1 (0.85%) Log4j
5 1 (0.85%) MLflow
5 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.85%) Toad
General
1 28 (23.93%) Finance
2 27 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 26 (22.22%) Banking
4 16 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.27%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Law
7 2 (1.71%) Marketing
7 2 (1.71%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.85%) Electronics
8 1 (0.85%) French Language
8 1 (0.85%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (17.09%) Consultant
2 15 (12.82%) Architect
3 13 (11.11%) Developer
4 9 (7.69%) Senior
5 7 (5.98%) Administrator
5 7 (5.98%) Analyst
6 5 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.42%) Banking Analyst
7 4 (3.42%) Middleware Engineer
7 4 (3.42%) Payments Analyst
7 4 (3.42%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.42%) RPG Developer
7 4 (3.42%) Security Administrator
7 4 (3.42%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (3.42%) Unix Engineer
8 3 (2.56%) Data Engineer
8 3 (2.56%) Data Governance Manager
8 3 (2.56%) Governance Manager
8 3 (2.56%) Project Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.53%) EntireX
2 11 (9.40%) Middleware
3 9 (7.69%) XML
4 7 (5.98%) OAuth
5 6 (5.13%) Kafka
5 6 (5.13%) LDAP
6 5 (4.27%) SAML
7 4 (3.42%) .NET
7 4 (3.42%) OpenID
7 4 (3.42%) RESTful
7 4 (3.42%) Spring
7 4 (3.42%) WebSphere MQ
8 3 (2.56%) Hibernate
8 3 (2.56%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (2.56%) J2EE
8 3 (2.56%) JDBC
8 3 (2.56%) SOAP
8 3 (2.56%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.56%) XSLT
9 2 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.38%) Mainframe
2 7 (5.98%) AS400
2 7 (5.98%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.27%) IBM Mainframe
3 5 (4.27%) iSeries
4 4 (3.42%) Clustering
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.71%) Derivative
6 2 (1.71%) Grid Computing
6 2 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.85%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (0.85%) PKI
7 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.50%) Linux
2 19 (16.24%) Unix
3 18 (15.38%) Windows
4 12 (10.26%) zOS
5 10 (8.55%) AIX
6 8 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (5.98%) Windows Server
8 4 (3.42%) Oracle Linux
8 4 (3.42%) Solaris
9 2 (1.71%) CentOS
9 2 (1.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.85%) HPUX
10 1 (0.85%) MVS
10 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.85%) VMS
10 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (16.24%) Agile
3 18 (15.38%) Migration
4 13 (11.11%) ITIL
5 11 (9.40%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (7.69%) Containerisation
6 9 (7.69%) DevOps
6 9 (7.69%) Project Management
7 8 (6.84%) CI/CD
7 8 (6.84%) Microservices
7 8 (6.84%) Performance Monitoring
7 8 (6.84%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (5.98%) High Availability
8 7 (5.98%) Problem Management
8 7 (5.98%) Process Improvement
8 7 (5.98%) Project Delivery
8 7 (5.98%) SDLC
8 7 (5.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (5.13%) Customer Service
9 6 (5.13%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (18.80%) SQL
2 18 (15.38%) Java
3 13 (11.11%) Python
4 10 (8.55%) JCL
5 7 (5.98%) REXX
5 7 (5.98%) RPG
6 6 (5.13%) ActionScript
6 6 (5.13%) ActionScript 2.0
6 6 (5.13%) PL/SQL
6 6 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.27%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.42%) Assembly Language
8 4 (3.42%) C#
9 3 (2.56%) COBOL
9 3 (2.56%) Natural
10 2 (1.71%) Bash
10 2 (1.71%) C
10 2 (1.71%) C++
10 2 (1.71%) Korn
10 2 (1.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) IBM Certification
4 4 (3.42%) CISSP
5 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.85%) CCDE
5 1 (0.85%) CFA
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) Degree
5 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) SLA
2 5 (4.27%) GDPR
2 5 (4.27%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.42%) SEPA
4 3 (2.56%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.71%) QA
6 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) ISO 15022
6 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
2 8 (6.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.27%) RACF
4 5 (4.27%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 4 (3.42%) Time Sharing Option
6 3 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.71%) ACF2
7 2 (1.71%) Active Directory
7 2 (1.71%) NFS
7 2 (1.71%) Platform Symphony
8 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.85%) Microcode
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.85%) vSphere
8 1 (0.85%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 9 (7.69%) Tivoli
2 7 (5.98%) Ansible
3 6 (5.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (2.56%) Terraform
4 3 (2.56%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 2 (1.71%) Control-M
5 2 (1.71%) Grafana
5 2 (1.71%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.71%) Kibana
5 2 (1.71%) Nagios
5 2 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.71%) Tivoli NetView
6 1 (0.85%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.85%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.85%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.85%) Netcool
6 1 (0.85%) OMEGAMON
6 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Oracle
2 17 (14.53%) Software AG
3 14 (11.97%) Microsoft
4 9 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 9 (7.69%) VMware
5 7 (5.98%) HP
6 5 (4.27%) Dell
6 5 (4.27%) IBM Sterling
6 5 (4.27%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.42%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.42%) MuleSoft
7 4 (3.42%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.42%) SAP
7 4 (3.42%) Splunk
8 3 (2.56%) Adobe
8 3 (2.56%) Google
8 3 (2.56%) Informatica
8 3 (2.56%) Ping Identity
8 3 (2.56%) Siebel
9 2 (1.71%) Brocade
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