The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Ipswich region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 49 - 33
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing IBM 6 0 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.835% - 6.164%
As % of the Vendors category 4.225% - 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 18
Average salary £40,000 - £53,750
90% offered a salary of more than £38,500 - £36,800
10% offered a salary of more than £43,125 - £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
142 113 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 43.43% 42.80% 39.38%
Number of salaries quoted 132 102 103
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £24,550
10% offered a salary of more than £44,250 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
Suffolk

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IBM across the Ipswich region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Ipswich IBM Jobs Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) SAN
2 8 (80.00%) NetApp
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (80.00%) EMC
2 8 (80.00%) Tivoli
2 8 (80.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 8 (80.00%) Replication
2 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (80.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 8 (80.00%) Isilon
2 8 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
3 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
4 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (40.00%) WSH
5 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
5 4 (40.00%) Backup Exec
5 4 (40.00%) Symantec
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) Firewall
7 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
7 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (20.00%) Internet

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 4 (40.00%) WSH
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SAN
1 8 (80.00%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Storage Administrator
1 7 (70.00%) Administrator
2 3 (30.00%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Tivoli
1 8 (80.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 4 (40.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (80.00%) NetApp
2 8 (80.00%) EMC
2 8 (80.00%) Isilon
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Symantec
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft