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This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs across the UK 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 last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkIBM
Location
3 months to 9 May 2008Same period last year
Rank115103
Rank change on same period last yearDown-12
Matching permanent IT job ads37184032
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled1.812 %1.802 %
As % of the category below4.161 %4.220 %
Salaries quoted28653039
Average minimum salary£41,193£43,266
Average salary£44,755£47,191
% change on same period last year-5.16 %
Average maximum salary£48,317£51,116
UK excluding London average salary£42,115£45,334
% change on same period last year-7.10 %
Vendors UKVendors
UK
Matching permanent IT job ads8934495536
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled43.55 %42.69 %
Salaries quoted7206873344
Average minimum salary£40,533£42,005
Average salary£44,182£45,748
% change on same period last year-3.42 %
Average maximum salary£47,831£49,492
UK excluding London average salary£40,189£41,363
% change on same period last year-2.83 %

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

IBM
Demand Trend

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

IBM Demand Trend

IBM
Salary Trend

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

IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM across the UK over the past 3 months.

IBM Salary Histogram

IBM
Top 30 Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the UK over the past 3 months.

RankLocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
1EnglandDown-63432£44,608-4.49 %
2LondonUp+131068£51,306-1.64 %
3South EastUp+121036£43,627-2.11 %
4East of EnglandDown-4346£41,270-12.36 %
5HampshireUp+5302£44,274+4.28 %
6City of LondonUp+19255£54,306+7.54 %
7North WestDown-33249£37,764-17.02 %
8BerkshireUp+29242£41,384-2.44 %
9South WestDown-11219£39,319-2.44 %
10YorkshireDown-1204£39,074-2.78 %
11HertfordshireUp+6160£41,365-21.16 %
12East MidlandsUp+5146£41,766+9.78 %
13SurreyDown-17144£45,823-1.50 %
14ManchesterDown-8136£39,716-21.19 %
15ScotlandUp+43126£40,412+4.03 %
16BuckinghamshireUp+13122£42,633-3.97 %
17West MidlandsDown-71117£39,014-0.13 %
18DorsetUp+1683£54,411+34.09 %
19West YorkshireDown-2482£38,161+3.79 %
20CambridgeshireUp+1573£40,536-2.35 %
21LeedsDown-1769£39,284+3.23 %
22South YorkshireUp+3868£36,563+34.00 %
22ReadingUp+3168£39,374+10.45 %
23BournemouthUp+1167£57,211+39.89 %
23CheshireDown-3667£34,629-20.32 %
24WatfordUp+1066£39,373-20.87 %
25BasingstokeUp+1064£40,395-10.78 %
25WalesUp+1764£35,778+6.91 %
26EssexUp+1162£43,169+6.14 %
27LeicestershireUp+1359£37,335+3.88 %

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing IBM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IBM.

12206 (29.69 %)Unix
22016 (27.14 %)WebSphere
31769 (23.81 %)Windows
41667 (22.44 %)Oracle
51634 (21.99 %)Finance
61632 (21.97 %)Java
71396 (18.79 %)HP
81255 (16.89 %)Microsoft
91251 (16.84 %)AIX
101196 (16.10 %)J2EE
111136 (15.29 %)SAN
121131 (15.22 %)Sun
131089 (14.66 %)Linux
141087 (14.63 %)SQL
15945 (12.72 %)Solaris
16919 (12.37 %)DB2
17757 (10.19 %)EMC
18744 (10.01 %)XML
19679 (9.140 %)Mainframe
20658 (8.857 %)SQL Server
21654 (8.803 %)WebSphere Application Server
22596 (8.023 %)Banking
23577 (7.767 %)Tivoli
24551 (7.417 %)Degree
25539 (7.255 %)WebLogic
26530 (7.134 %)HTML
27518 (6.973 %)UML
28515 (6.932 %)VMware
29502 (6.757 %)Cisco
30495 (6.663 %).NET

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the UK citing IBM also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing IBM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
12016 (27.14 %)WebSphere
21196 (16.10 %)J2EE
3744 (10.01 %)XML
4530 (7.134 %)HTML
5495 (6.663 %).NET
6426 (5.734 %)JSP
7396 (5.330 %)Middleware
8284 (3.823 %)EJB
9272 (3.661 %)WebServices
10271 (3.648 %)Servlets
11244 (3.284 %)Spring
12230 (3.096 %)Struts
12230 (3.096 %)JMS
13229 (3.083 %)CSS
14212 (2.854 %)Hibernate
15192 (2.584 %)JDBC
16159 (2.140 %)XSLT
17131 (1.763 %)AJAX
18121 (1.629 %)ASP
19116 (1.561 %)XHTML
Application Platforms
1654 (8.803 %)WebSphere Application Server
2539 (7.255 %)WebLogic
3325 (4.375 %)MQSeries
4301 (4.052 %)WebSphere MQ
5282 (3.796 %)Apache
6247 (3.325 %)Tomcat
7240 (3.231 %)MS Exchange
8237 (3.190 %)JBoss
9220 (2.961 %)Lotus Notes
10191 (2.571 %)CICS
11181 (2.436 %)IIS
12173 (2.329 %)Documentum
13171 (2.302 %)Lotus Domino
14165 (2.221 %)Exchange Server 2003
15163 (2.194 %)SharePoint
16152 (2.046 %)IBM HTTP Server
17137 (1.844 %)WPS
1893 (1.252 %)SAS
1893 (1.252 %)BizTalk Server
1988 (1.185 %)CMS
Applications
1442 (5.950 %)MS Excel
2216 (2.908 %)MS Office
3146 (1.965 %)MS Visio
427 (0.363 %)MS Project
520 (0.269 %)Photoshop
618 (0.242 %)MS PowerPoint
713 (0.175 %)SPSS
812 (0.162 %)PrintSoft PReS
910 (0.135 %)Adobe Illustrator
108 (0.108 %)FreeHand
116 (0.081 %)Fireworks
116 (0.081 %)SmartSuite
125 (0.067 %)AutoCAD
134 (0.054 %)DeltaView
143 (0.040 %)MATLAB
151 (0.013 %)InfoPath
151 (0.013 %)Open Workbench
151 (0.013 %)CA Clarity
Business Applications
154 (0.727 %)Oracle Applications
250 (0.673 %)Oracle EBS
347 (0.633 %)Oracle 11i
443 (0.579 %)MAXIMO
524 (0.323 %)ProfileStage
621 (0.283 %)HiPortfolio
717 (0.229 %)Navision
813 (0.175 %)Movex
813 (0.175 %)SAP Retail
910 (0.135 %)Staffware
910 (0.135 %)Oracle Financials
108 (0.108 %)SAP HR
117 (0.094 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
126 (0.081 %)Oracle CRM
135 (0.067 %)Axapta
135 (0.067 %)SAP ERP
144 (0.054 %)SAP WM
153 (0.040 %)BusinessWorks
153 (0.040 %)Fidessa
153 (0.040 %)BPCS
Communications & Networking
11136 (15.29 %)SAN
2406 (5.465 %)TCP/IP
3256 (3.446 %)Internet
4234 (3.150 %)DNS
5228 (3.069 %)HTTP
6201 (2.706 %)LAN
7190 (2.558 %)WAN
8153 (2.059 %)Firewall
9135 (1.817 %)VPN
10129 (1.736 %)DHCP
11124 (1.669 %)LDAP
1275 (1.010 %)FTP
1372 (0.969 %)CTI
1471 (0.956 %)WINS
1565 (0.875 %)SNMP
1656 (0.754 %)Intranet
1755 (0.740 %)VoIP
1854 (0.727 %)IPsec
1952 (0.700 %)iSCSI
2044 (0.592 %)SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1919 (12.37 %)DB2
2658 (8.857 %)SQL Server
3214 (2.881 %)RDBMS
4160 (2.154 %)Oracle 10g
5159 (2.140 %)Datawarehouse
6146 (1.965 %)ETL
7138 (1.858 %)Oracle 9i
8106 (1.427 %)MySQL
9101 (1.360 %)DataStage
1094 (1.265 %)SQL Server 2000
1191 (1.225 %)BusinessObjects
1290 (1.211 %)Oracle 8/8i
1373 (0.983 %)Informix
1472 (0.969 %)SQL Server 2005
1558 (0.781 %)Oracle Reports
1648 (0.646 %)SQL Server 7
1747 (0.633 %)EDRMS
1845 (0.606 %)Crystal Reports
1933 (0.444 %)Data Cleansing
2028 (0.377 %)TOAD
Development Applications
1234 (3.150 %)Eclipse
294 (1.265 %)ClearCase
386 (1.158 %)Ant
475 (1.010 %)JUnit
571 (0.956 %)TestDirector
658 (0.781 %)ClearQuest
751 (0.686 %)Subversion
843 (0.579 %)WinRunner
936 (0.485 %)Oracle Forms
1034 (0.458 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1133 (0.444 %)QuickTest Pro
1232 (0.431 %)LoadRunner
1331 (0.417 %)Flash
1422 (0.296 %)JDeveloper
1520 (0.269 %)Dreamweaver
1520 (0.269 %)RequisitePro
1520 (0.269 %)Rational Robot
1619 (0.256 %)JBuilder
1718 (0.242 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1718 (0.242 %)Log4j
General
11634 (21.99 %)Finance
2596 (8.023 %)Banking
3390 (5.250 %)Retail
4286 (3.850 %)Insurance
5276 (3.715 %)Health
6274 (3.688 %)Telecoms
7273 (3.675 %)Pensions
8181 (2.436 %)Investment Banking
9132 (1.777 %)Marketing
10120 (1.615 %)Financial Institution
11111 (1.494 %)Government
1290 (1.211 %)Education
1381 (1.090 %)Back Office
1451 (0.686 %)Legal
1451 (0.686 %)Publishing
1548 (0.646 %)Law
1641 (0.552 %)Front Office
1641 (0.552 %)Billing
1739 (0.525 %)Music
1837 (0.498 %)Manufacturing
Job Titles
11148 (15.45 %)Developer
21067 (14.36 %)Analyst
31032 (13.89 %)Consultant
4949 (12.77 %)Administrator
5782 (10.53 %)Architect
6390 (5.250 %)Systems Administrator
6390 (5.250 %)Java Developer
7324 (4.361 %)UNIX Administrator
8285 (3.836 %)Technical Consultant
9261 (3.513 %)Technical Architect
10260 (3.500 %)Support Analyst
11209 (2.813 %)AIX Administrator
12191 (2.571 %)Programmer
13189 (2.544 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
14187 (2.517 %)Support Engineer
15183 (2.463 %)Senior Developer
16178 (2.396 %)Technical Support
17168 (2.261 %)Team Leader
17168 (2.261 %)Java/J2EE Developer
18165 (2.221 %)Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1679 (9.140 %)Mainframe
2442 (5.950 %)IBM Mainframe
3414 (5.573 %)Clustering
4306 (4.119 %)AS400
5248 (3.338 %)HACMP
6103 (1.386 %)Tandem
794 (1.265 %)Client/Server
892 (1.238 %)Computer Science
989 (1.198 %)Replication
1084 (1.131 %)Asset Management
1175 (1.010 %)Blackberry
1272 (0.969 %)Management Information System
1369 (0.929 %)IVR
1463 (0.848 %)Data Integration
1562 (0.835 %)CLARiiON
1650 (0.673 %)EPoS
1747 (0.633 %)Symmetrix
1747 (0.633 %)Mathematics
1843 (0.579 %)French Language
1938 (0.512 %)Fat Client
Operating Systems
12206 (29.69 %)Unix
21769 (23.81 %)Windows
31251 (16.84 %)AIX
41089 (14.66 %)Linux
5945 (12.72 %)Solaris
6256 (3.446 %)Windows 2000
7244 (3.284 %)HPUX
8188 (2.531 %)Windows Server 2003
9179 (2.409 %)SUSE
10177 (2.383 %)Windows NT
11138 (1.858 %)MVS
12119 (1.602 %)Windows XP
13118 (1.588 %)zOS
1456 (0.754 %)OS/400
1529 (0.390 %)VMS
1625 (0.337 %)Tru64
1718 (0.242 %)OpenVMS
1816 (0.215 %)OS/390
1915 (0.202 %)Fedora
2010 (0.135 %)Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1518 (6.973 %)UML
2443 (5.963 %)OO
3407 (5.479 %)ITIL
4360 (4.846 %)Project Management
5297 (3.998 %)E-Commerce
6283 (3.809 %)SOA
7279 (3.756 %)Disaster Recovery
8256 (3.446 %)Content Management
9235 (3.163 %)Change Management
10179 (2.409 %)Migration
11159 (2.140 %)PRINCE2
12158 (2.127 %)RUP
13140 (1.885 %)RAD
14137 (1.844 %)EAI
15135 (1.817 %)ERP
16129 (1.736 %)Service Delivery
17128 (1.723 %)Business Intelligence
18127 (1.710 %)CRM
19124 (1.669 %)Configuration Management
20123 (1.656 %)Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
11632 (21.97 %)Java
21087 (14.63 %)SQL
3373 (5.021 %)JavaScript
4309 (4.159 %)Shell Script
5277 (3.729 %)C
6258 (3.473 %)Perl
7252 (3.392 %)C++
8235 (3.163 %)C#
9229 (3.083 %)COBOL
10164 (2.208 %)PL/SQL
11138 (1.858 %)VB
12136 (1.831 %)Korn
13129 (1.736 %)VB.NET
14119 (1.602 %)RPG
15113 (1.521 %)JCL
1659 (0.794 %)DHTML
1746 (0.619 %)VBScript
1838 (0.512 %)Transact-SQL
1937 (0.498 %)Jython
2035 (0.471 %)VBA
Qualifications
1551 (7.417 %)Degree
2336 (4.523 %)Microsoft Certification
3240 (3.231 %)MCSE
4146 (1.965 %)Cisco Certification
4146 (1.965 %)IBM Certification
5117 (1.575 %)Sun Certification
698 (1.319 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
785 (1.144 %)ISEB
881 (1.090 %)MCP
962 (0.835 %)ITIL Certification
1057 (0.767 %)MCSA
1155 (0.740 %)CCNP
1155 (0.740 %)CCNA
1248 (0.646 %)Citrix Certification
1343 (0.579 %)CISSP
1441 (0.552 %)SNIA Certification
1540 (0.538 %)IBM AIX Certification
1540 (0.538 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1635 (0.471 %)HND
1732 (0.431 %)RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1252 (3.392 %)SLA
2105 (1.413 %)QA
328 (0.377 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
47 (0.094 %)ISO27001
47 (0.094 %)COBIT
54 (0.054 %)BS7799
54 (0.054 %)HMG Infosec
63 (0.040 %)ISO17799
63 (0.040 %)Basel II
63 (0.040 %)ISO8583
72 (0.027 %)ISO/IEC 20000
81 (0.013 %)CESG Infosec
81 (0.013 %)ISO9000
System Software
1464 (6.246 %)Active Directory
2240 (3.231 %)NetBackup
3132 (1.777 %)VMware ESX
4119 (1.602 %)NFS
596 (1.292 %)Backup Exec
668 (0.915 %)Oracle RAC
760 (0.808 %)AquaLogic
836 (0.485 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
930 (0.404 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1028 (0.377 %)VMware Server
1028 (0.377 %)Oracle RMAN
1124 (0.323 %)MetaFrame
1222 (0.296 %)ISA Server
1222 (0.296 %)RACF
1318 (0.242 %)Novell eDirectory
1416 (0.215 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1513 (0.175 %)Xen
1513 (0.175 %)Samba
1513 (0.175 %)VMware Workstation
169 (0.121 %)Terminal Server
Systems Management
1577 (7.767 %)Tivoli
2398 (5.357 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
3159 (2.140 %)Legato
483 (1.117 %)CONTROL-M
581 (1.090 %)EMC NetWorker
674 (0.996 %)OpenView
761 (0.821 %)BMC PATROL
854 (0.727 %)Netcool
948 (0.646 %)OMEGAMON
1045 (0.606 %)Unicenter
1144 (0.592 %)MOM
1242 (0.565 %)CA SiteMinder
1341 (0.552 %)AutoSys
1439 (0.525 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1537 (0.498 %)Netcool/OMNIbus
1628 (0.377 %)Nagios
1727 (0.363 %)Foglight
1824 (0.323 %)Netcool/Webtop
1824 (0.323 %)CiscoWorks
1824 (0.323 %)Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
11667 (22.44 %)Oracle
21396 (18.79 %)HP
31255 (16.89 %)Microsoft
41131 (15.22 %)Sun
5757 (10.19 %)EMC
6515 (6.932 %)VMware
7502 (6.757 %)Cisco
8473 (6.367 %)BEA
9380 (5.115 %)VERITAS
10349 (4.698 %)Dell
11332 (4.469 %)Red Hat
12311 (4.186 %)Citrix
13276 (3.715 %)Lotus
14255 (3.432 %)SAP
15242 (3.258 %)Intel
16230 (3.096 %)Brocade
17227 (3.056 %)Compaq
18215 (2.894 %)Sybase
19209 (2.813 %)NetApp
20192 (2.584 %)FileNet
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