England IBM Jobs

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aldershot Amersham Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chorley City of London Clevedon Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dumfries and Galloway Dunfermline East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Fleetwood Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stowmarket Stranraer Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	113	112
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	3338	3828
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.758 %	1.570 %
As % of the category below	4.374 %	3.911 %
Salaries quoted	2581	2914
Average minimum salary	£41,313	£42,078
Average salary	£45,082	£46,059
% change on same period last year	-2.12 %
Average maximum salary	£48,850	£50,040
UK excluding London average salary	£42,762	£45,073
% change on same period last year	-5.12 %
Vendors England
Matching permanent IT job ads	76323	97883
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	40.19 %	40.15 %
Salaries quoted	63316	76860
Average minimum salary	£40,055	£41,977
Average salary	£43,749	£45,783
% change on same period last year	-4.44 %
Average maximum salary	£47,442	£49,589
UK excluding London average salary	£39,811	£42,044
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
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These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the England region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South East	+27	1090	£43,884	-1.36 %
London	+32	1056	£50,851	-2.92 %
East of England	+9	292	£46,004	+8.85 %
North West	-32	185	£40,488	-8.55 %
East Midlands	+37	174	£40,683	-1.86 %
Yorkshire	-16	166	£35,433	-11.18 %
West Midlands	-51	154	£39,414	+4.77 %
South West	-58	130	£37,634	-10.18 %
Midlands	+14	94	£46,882	-24.55 %
North East	-11	10	£27,500	-19.41 %
South Coast	-5	1	£32,500	-27.77 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IBM.

1 1915 (27.76 %) UNIX 2 1837 (26.63 %) WebSphere 3 1716 (24.88 %) Windows 4 1597 (23.15 %) Finance 5 1546 (22.41 %) Java 6 1493 (21.64 %) Oracle 7 1263 (18.31 %) HP 8 1151 (16.69 %) SQL 9 1138 (16.50 %) AIX 10 1113 (16.14 %) Microsoft 11 1085 (15.73 %) SAN 12 1052 (15.25 %) Linux 13 1043 (15.12 %) J2EE 14 1024 (14.84 %) Sun 15 953 (13.82 %) Solaris

16 907 (13.15 %) DB2 17 731 (10.60 %) XML 18 714 (10.35 %) WebSphere Application Server 19 684 (9.916 %) EMC 20 681 (9.872 %) Mainframe 21 673 (9.756 %) SQL Server 22 658 (9.539 %) VMware 23 534 (7.741 %) HTML 24 517 (7.495 %) Cisco 25 499 (7.234 %) Degree 26 497 (7.205 %) Banking 27 475 (6.886 %) Active Directory 28 472 (6.843 %) Tivoli 29 463 (6.712 %) TCP/IP 29 463 (6.712 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing IBM also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1837 (26.63 %) WebSphere 2 1043 (15.12 %) J2EE 3 731 (10.60 %) XML 4 534 (7.741 %) HTML 5 402 (5.828 %) .NET 6 365 (5.291 %) JSP 7 328 (4.755 %) Middleware 8 319 (4.625 %) EJB 9 278 (4.030 %) Servlets 10 276 (4.001 %) WebServices 11 252 (3.653 %) CSS 12 228 (3.305 %) JDBC 13 210 (3.044 %) Spring 14 205 (2.972 %) Struts 15 194 (2.812 %) Hibernate 16 189 (2.740 %) JMS 17 145 (2.102 %) AJAX 18 128 (1.856 %) MVC 19 120 (1.740 %) XSLT 20 97 (1.406 %) JSF	Application Platforms 1 714 (10.35 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 455 (6.596 %) WebLogic 3 352 (5.103 %) MQSeries 4 319 (4.625 %) Apache 5 314 (4.552 %) Tomcat 6 279 (4.045 %) MS Exchange 7 263 (3.813 %) JBoss 8 258 (3.740 %) WebSphere MQ 9 224 (3.247 %) CICS 10 194 (2.812 %) Lotus Notes 11 181 (2.624 %) IIS 12 171 (2.479 %) Lotus Domino 13 167 (2.421 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 164 (2.378 %) IBM HTTP Server 15 120 (1.740 %) SharePoint 16 112 (1.624 %) SAS 17 104 (1.508 %) BizTalk Server 18 98 (1.421 %) Documentum 19 90 (1.305 %) Oracle Application Server 20 89 (1.290 %) WPS
Applications 1 463 (6.712 %) MS Excel 2 234 (3.392 %) MS Office 3 169 (2.450 %) MS Visio 4 41 (0.594 %) MS Project 5 29 (0.420 %) MS PowerPoint 6 17 (0.246 %) Photoshop 7 13 (0.188 %) SPSS 8 12 (0.174 %) DOC1 8 12 (0.174 %) PrintSoft PReS 9 8 (0.116 %) Fireworks 10 5 (0.072 %) SmartSuite 11 4 (0.058 %) AutoCAD 11 4 (0.058 %) ArcInfo 11 4 (0.058 %) Spreadsheet 12 3 (0.043 %) MATLAB 13 2 (0.029 %) Adobe Illustrator 14 1 (0.014 %) Open Workbench 14 1 (0.014 %) CA Clarity 14 1 (0.014 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 52 (0.754 %) Oracle EBS 2 37 (0.536 %) Oracle Applications 3 26 (0.377 %) Oracle 11i 3 26 (0.377 %) MAXIMO 4 25 (0.362 %) SAP Retail 5 24 (0.348 %) Staffware 6 22 (0.319 %) Movex 6 22 (0.319 %) Navision 7 11 (0.159 %) SoftGrid 8 9 (0.130 %) SAP ERP 9 8 (0.116 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 9 8 (0.116 %) SAP HR 10 7 (0.101 %) BPCS 10 7 (0.101 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 11 6 (0.087 %) Oracle CRM 11 6 (0.087 %) HiPortfolio 12 5 (0.072 %) SAP WM 13 4 (0.058 %) Summit 13 4 (0.058 %) VisionPLUS 14 3 (0.043 %) AWD
Communications & Networking 1 1085 (15.73 %) SAN 2 463 (6.712 %) TCP/IP 3 301 (4.364 %) Internet 4 255 (3.697 %) DNS 5 240 (3.479 %) HTTP 6 192 (2.783 %) LAN 7 178 (2.580 %) LDAP 8 161 (2.334 %) WAN 9 127 (1.841 %) Firewall 10 126 (1.827 %) VPN 11 102 (1.479 %) DHCP 12 90 (1.305 %) SSL 13 80 (1.160 %) FTP 14 72 (1.044 %) SNMP 15 68 (0.986 %) VoIP 16 61 (0.884 %) CTI 17 56 (0.812 %) IPsec 18 51 (0.739 %) Intranet 19 41 (0.594 %) Ethereal 20 38 (0.551 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 907 (13.15 %) DB2 2 673 (9.756 %) SQL Server 3 227 (3.291 %) RDBMS 4 157 (2.276 %) Datawarehouse 5 120 (1.740 %) MySQL 6 115 (1.667 %) Oracle 10g 7 108 (1.566 %) Oracle 9i 8 98 (1.421 %) SQL Server 2000 9 96 (1.392 %) ETL 10 91 (1.319 %) BusinessObjects 11 80 (1.160 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 74 (1.073 %) Informix 13 69 (1.000 %) SQL Server 2005 14 58 (0.841 %) SQL Server 7 15 53 (0.768 %) DataStage 16 47 (0.681 %) Oracle Reports 17 36 (0.522 %) Base SAS 18 28 (0.406 %) SQL Server Integration Services 19 27 (0.391 %) DB2 UDB 20 26 (0.377 %) EDRMS
Development Applications 1 246 (3.566 %) Eclipse 2 87 (1.261 %) Ant 3 75 (1.087 %) JUnit 4 57 (0.826 %) Subversion 5 44 (0.638 %) TestDirector 6 42 (0.609 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 39 (0.565 %) ClearCase 8 36 (0.522 %) JBuilder 8 36 (0.522 %) JDeveloper 9 32 (0.464 %) Oracle Forms 10 31 (0.449 %) ClearQuest 11 27 (0.391 %) VSS/SourceSafe 11 27 (0.391 %) Flash 12 25 (0.362 %) Log4j 13 23 (0.333 %) QuickTest Pro 14 21 (0.304 %) Dreamweaver 15 20 (0.290 %) WinRunner 16 19 (0.275 %) RequisitePro 17 14 (0.203 %) WebLogic Workshop 18 12 (0.174 %) LoadRunner	General 1 1597 (23.15 %) Finance 2 497 (7.205 %) Banking 3 436 (6.321 %) Retail 4 330 (4.784 %) Insurance 5 310 (4.494 %) Pensions 6 286 (4.146 %) Health 7 268 (3.885 %) Telecoms 8 112 (1.624 %) Education 9 111 (1.609 %) Financial Institution 10 105 (1.522 %) Investment Banking 11 103 (1.493 %) Marketing 12 82 (1.189 %) Government 13 70 (1.015 %) Back Office 14 56 (0.812 %) Publishing 15 50 (0.725 %) Games 16 42 (0.609 %) Legal 17 41 (0.594 %) Manufacturing 18 38 (0.551 %) Automotive 19 37 (0.536 %) Law 20 32 (0.464 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 1037 (15.03 %) Developer 2 951 (13.79 %) Administrator 3 929 (13.47 %) Analyst 4 823 (11.93 %) Consultant 5 641 (9.293 %) Architect 6 409 (5.929 %) Systems Administrator 7 373 (5.407 %) Java Developer 8 272 (3.943 %) UNIX Administrator 9 251 (3.639 %) Support Analyst 10 249 (3.610 %) Programmer 11 248 (3.595 %) Technical Consultant 12 239 (3.465 %) Team Leader 13 192 (2.783 %) Technical Architect 14 179 (2.595 %) Technical Support 15 178 (2.580 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 16 176 (2.551 %) Senior Developer 17 169 (2.450 %) Applications Support 18 162 (2.349 %) J2EE Developer 18 162 (2.349 %) Project Manager 19 159 (2.305 %) Analyst Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 681 (9.872 %) Mainframe 2 394 (5.712 %) IBM Mainframe 3 311 (4.509 %) AS400 4 305 (4.422 %) Clustering 5 197 (2.856 %) HACMP 6 98 (1.421 %) Client/Server 6 98 (1.421 %) Replication 7 86 (1.247 %) Blackberry 8 80 (1.160 %) Management Information System 9 67 (0.971 %) CLARiiON 10 65 (0.942 %) IVR 11 61 (0.884 %) Tandem 12 52 (0.754 %) Mathematics 12 52 (0.754 %) Computer Science 13 51 (0.739 %) Fat Client 13 51 (0.739 %) Thin Client 14 48 (0.696 %) Symmetrix 15 46 (0.667 %) Chip and PIN 16 45 (0.652 %) EPoS 17 44 (0.638 %) French Language
Operating Systems 1 1915 (27.76 %) UNIX 2 1716 (24.88 %) Windows 3 1138 (16.50 %) AIX 4 1052 (15.25 %) Linux 5 953 (13.82 %) Solaris 6 278 (4.030 %) Windows 2000 7 211 (3.059 %) HPUX 8 179 (2.595 %) zOS 9 177 (2.566 %) Windows Server 2003 9 177 (2.566 %) SUSE 10 144 (2.088 %) Windows NT 11 132 (1.914 %) Windows XP 12 99 (1.435 %) MVS 13 49 (0.710 %) OS/400 14 21 (0.304 %) Debian 15 18 (0.261 %) Tru64 16 13 (0.188 %) VMS 17 11 (0.159 %) OpenVMS 17 11 (0.159 %) NetWare 18 10 (0.145 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 441 (6.393 %) UML 2 416 (6.031 %) Project Management 3 376 (5.451 %) E-Commerce 4 368 (5.335 %) OO 5 334 (4.842 %) ITIL 6 241 (3.494 %) Change Management 7 210 (3.044 %) Disaster Recovery 8 201 (2.914 %) SOA 9 189 (2.740 %) Content Management 10 160 (2.320 %) PRINCE2 11 147 (2.131 %) RUP 12 131 (1.899 %) Business Intelligence 13 122 (1.769 %) EAI 13 122 (1.769 %) Business Development 14 117 (1.696 %) Migration 15 115 (1.667 %) Agile Software Development 16 110 (1.595 %) Service Delivery 17 108 (1.566 %) ERP 18 106 (1.537 %) Asset Management 19 102 (1.479 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1546 (22.41 %) Java 2 1151 (16.69 %) SQL 3 340 (4.929 %) JavaScript 4 321 (4.654 %) Shell Script 5 298 (4.320 %) Perl 6 287 (4.161 %) C 7 259 (3.755 %) C++ 8 252 (3.653 %) COBOL 9 226 (3.276 %) C# 10 165 (2.392 %) VB 11 155 (2.247 %) PL/SQL 12 136 (1.972 %) JCL 13 133 (1.928 %) VB.NET 14 117 (1.696 %) RPG 15 95 (1.377 %) Korn 16 43 (0.623 %) XPath 16 43 (0.623 %) REXX 17 40 (0.580 %) VBScript 18 39 (0.565 %) DHTML 19 38 (0.551 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 499 (7.234 %) Degree 2 316 (4.581 %) Microsoft Certification 3 243 (3.523 %) MCSE 4 145 (2.102 %) IBM Certification 5 128 (1.856 %) Cisco Certification 6 125 (1.812 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 72 (1.044 %) Sun Certification 7 72 (1.044 %) MCP 8 63 (0.913 %) ISEB 9 62 (0.899 %) CCNP 10 58 (0.841 %) MCSA 11 57 (0.826 %) IBM AIX Certification 12 50 (0.725 %) HND 13 48 (0.696 %) ITIL Certification 14 46 (0.667 %) CCNA 15 44 (0.638 %) Citrix Certification 16 37 (0.536 %) PRINCE2 Certification 17 36 (0.522 %) CCA 18 35 (0.507 %) CISSP 19 25 (0.362 %) SNIA Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 168 (2.435 %) SLA 2 78 (1.131 %) QA 3 35 (0.507 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 5 (0.072 %) COBIT 5 4 (0.058 %) RosettaNet 6 2 (0.029 %) ISO27001 6 2 (0.029 %) ISO17799 6 2 (0.029 %) ISO/IEC 20000 7 1 (0.014 %) ISO9000 7 1 (0.014 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 475 (6.886 %) Active Directory 2 315 (4.567 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 239 (3.465 %) NetBackup 4 171 (2.479 %) VMware ESX 5 102 (1.479 %) NFS 6 50 (0.725 %) Backup Exec 7 45 (0.652 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 40 (0.580 %) Oracle RAC 9 33 (0.478 %) AquaLogic 10 26 (0.377 %) VMware Server 11 25 (0.362 %) Oracle RMAN 11 25 (0.362 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 12 23 (0.333 %) MetaFrame 12 23 (0.333 %) RACF 13 19 (0.275 %) Terminal Server 14 18 (0.261 %) Xen 14 18 (0.261 %) Novell eDirectory 15 17 (0.246 %) ISA Server 16 14 (0.203 %) Samba 17 11 (0.159 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 472 (6.843 %) Tivoli 2 386 (5.596 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 103 (1.493 %) Legato 4 72 (1.044 %) CONTROL-M 5 59 (0.855 %) MOM 6 58 (0.841 %) Netcool 7 53 (0.768 %) OpenView 8 50 (0.725 %) EMC NetWorker 9 47 (0.681 %) Tivoli Monitoring 10 46 (0.667 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 11 41 (0.594 %) BMC PATROL 12 35 (0.507 %) Nagios 13 33 (0.478 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 14 30 (0.435 %) OMEGAMON 15 29 (0.420 %) CiscoWorks 16 26 (0.377 %) SCOM 17 23 (0.333 %) Unicenter 18 22 (0.319 %) AllFusion Endevor 19 20 (0.290 %) CA SiteMinder 20 18 (0.261 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 1493 (21.64 %) Oracle 2 1263 (18.31 %) HP 3 1113 (16.14 %) Microsoft 4 1024 (14.84 %) Sun 5 684 (9.916 %) EMC 6 658 (9.539 %) VMware 7 517 (7.495 %) Cisco 8 418 (6.060 %) BEA 9 370 (5.364 %) Citrix 10 316 (4.581 %) VERITAS 11 313 (4.538 %) Dell 12 304 (4.407 %) Red Hat 13 261 (3.784 %) Lotus 14 230 (3.334 %) NetApp 15 221 (3.204 %) Sybase 16 220 (3.189 %) Intel 17 219 (3.175 %) Brocade 18 208 (3.015 %) SAP 19 165 (2.392 %) CA 20 141 (2.044 %) BMC