The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 22 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 Northern Ireland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM
Rank 43 38 29
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -9
Permanent jobs citing IBM 2 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 0.735% 2.756% 4.825%
As % of the Vendors category 1.550% 5.556% 7.333%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £47,500 £27,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.92% -22.85%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
129 126 150
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 47.43% 49.61% 65.79%
Number of salaries quoted 74 60 45
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £21,950 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £53,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
UK

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
County Antrim -11 2 £47,500 +75.92%
IBM
UK

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Life Science
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) RIA
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (50.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (50.00%) Build Forge
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) YUM
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (50.00%) Build Forge
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (50.00%) Ant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Release Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) YUM
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (50.00%) BEA
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat