The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IBM over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors currently tracked.

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

IBM
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank135101109
Rank change year-on-year
Down-34Up+8
Matching permanent IT job ads227329821941
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.885 %2.432 %2.033 %
As % of the Vendors category3.956 %5.185 %4.581 %
Number of salaries quoted182323001488
Average salary£50,000£50,000£49,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+2.04 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£35,000£31,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£72,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
574595751742374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.65 %46.91 %44.38 %
Number of salaries quoted484194776133886
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

IBM
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IBM within 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 citing IBM within the UK.

IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

IBM Salary Histogram

IBM
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-362143£50,000+3.62 %
LondonUp+101043£57,500-4.16 %
South EastDown-48437£47,500+5.55 %
City of LondonUp+44307£57,500-4.16 %
North WestDown-19175£42,500+6.25 %
East of EnglandDown-66156£42,000-9.67 %
HertfordshireDown-32104£49,000-2.00 %
BerkshireDown-54102£45,000+7.14 %
HampshireDown-44100£47,500+11.76 %
CheshireUp+388£40,000+1.26 %
South WestDown-1186£45,000+12.50 %
SurreyDown-3886£54,500+17.20 %
YorkshireDown-7075£40,000+2.56 %
ManchesterDown-1173£47,500-5.00 %
WatfordDown-567£45,000-5.26 %
East MidlandsDown-3654£48,250+7.22 %
West MidlandsDown-6249£42,500+0.59 %
ScotlandDown-3948£44,500-11.00 %
BasingstokeDown-1242£45,000-
ReadingDown-3340£45,000+12.50 %
KnutsfordDown-239£47,500+21.79 %
GloucestershireDown-538£47,500+11.76 %
West YorkshireDown-6037£41,500+3.75 %
West SussexDown-430£46,000-20.00 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2026£35,500-21.11 %
South YorkshireDown-2326£39,000-7.14 %
Milton KeynesNo change022£35,500+1.42 %
GloucesterDown-122£47,500+5.55 %
NottinghamshireDown-922£52,500+16.66 %
LeedsDown-4322£41,500+14.48 %

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11680 (36.52 %)Oracle
21301 (28.28 %)Finance
31275 (27.72 %)Java
41223 (26.59 %)WebSphere
51181 (25.67 %)Windows
61061 (23.07 %)UNIX
71058 (23.00 %)SQL
81023 (22.24 %)Microsoft
9999 (21.72 %)HP
10923 (20.07 %)Linux
11828 (18.00 %)J2EE
12638 (13.87 %)Cisco
13637 (13.85 %)VMware
14624 (13.57 %)SQL Server
15622 (13.52 %)Banking
16589 (12.80 %)DB2
17573 (12.46 %)SAN
18541 (11.76 %)Business Intelligence
19510 (11.09 %)EMC
20505 (10.98 %)ITIL
20505 (10.98 %)Data Warehouse
21470 (10.22 %)SOA
22469 (10.20 %)Retail
23464 (10.09 %)AIX
24462 (10.04 %)Middleware
25455 (9.891 %)WebSphere Application Server
26453 (9.848 %)VMware Infrastructure
27443 (9.630 %)Degree
28435 (9.457 %)SAP
29415 (9.022 %)E-Commerce

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11223 (26.59 %)WebSphere
2828 (18.00 %)J2EE
3462 (10.04 %)Middleware
4413 (8.978 %)Web Services
5412 (8.957 %).NET
6404 (8.783 %)XML
7307 (6.674 %)Spring
8298 (6.478 %)HTML
9221 (4.804 %)CSS
10201 (4.370 %)Hibernate
11197 (4.283 %)JSP
12167 (3.630 %)Struts
13160 (3.478 %)Ajax
14152 (3.304 %)SOAP
15140 (3.043 %)JMS
16127 (2.761 %)Data Analytics Architect
17120 (2.609 %)Servlets
18105 (2.283 %)JDBC
19101 (2.196 %)EJB
2088 (1.913 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1455 (9.891 %)WebSphere Application Server
2276 (6.000 %)SAS
3274 (5.957 %)Tomcat
3274 (5.957 %)WebSphere MQ
4256 (5.565 %)Apache
5231 (5.022 %)WebLogic
6216 (4.696 %)ESB
7208 (4.522 %)MS Exchange
8197 (4.283 %)IIS
9176 (3.826 %)SharePoint
10150 (3.261 %)IBM HTTP Server
11120 (2.609 %)Exchange Server 2007
12112 (2.435 %)WebSphere Message Broker
13104 (2.261 %)MQSeries
1495 (2.065 %)WebSphere Portal
1581 (1.761 %)WebSphere Process Server
1581 (1.761 %)FileNet
1677 (1.674 %)CMS
1775 (1.630 %)BizTalk Server
1869 (1.500 %)GlassFish
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1409 (8.891 %)MS Excel
2173 (3.761 %)MS Office
3125 (2.717 %)MS Visio
439 (0.848 %)MS Project
522 (0.478 %)MS PowerPoint
617 (0.370 %)MATLAB
714 (0.304 %)Google Apps
813 (0.283 %)SPSS
912 (0.261 %)Photoshop
107 (0.152 %)Adobe Illustrator
112 (0.043 %)S-PLUS
112 (0.043 %)Office 365
121 (0.022 %)PrintSoft PReS
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1111 (2.413 %)Oracle BPM
264 (1.391 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
347 (1.022 %)Maximo
431 (0.674 %)Sword FircoSoft
525 (0.543 %)BusinessWorks
525 (0.543 %)Oracle EBS
623 (0.500 %)Google Analytics
720 (0.435 %)SAP Retail
817 (0.370 %)TIBCO iProcess
916 (0.348 %)SAP SCM
1015 (0.326 %)SAP GRC
1015 (0.326 %)SAP MDM
1015 (0.326 %)SAP CRM
1114 (0.304 %)Dynamics CRM
1213 (0.283 %)Tridion
1213 (0.283 %)Cognos Controller
1312 (0.261 %)Remedy ITSM
1312 (0.261 %)SAP HCM
1312 (0.261 %)Oracle ERP
1410 (0.217 %)Oracle Applications
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1573 (12.46 %)SAN
2242 (5.261 %)Firewall
3228 (4.957 %)DNS
4224 (4.870 %)TCP/IP
5222 (4.826 %)HTTP
6205 (4.457 %)Internet
7199 (4.326 %)WAN
8197 (4.283 %)LAN
9156 (3.391 %)NAS
10118 (2.565 %)DHCP
11105 (2.283 %)LDAP
1277 (1.674 %)VoIP
1360 (1.304 %)VLAN
1457 (1.239 %)VPN
1555 (1.196 %)Fibre Channel
1654 (1.174 %)SSL
1753 (1.152 %)MPLS
1850 (1.087 %)HTTPS
1948 (1.043 %)iSCSI
2045 (0.978 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1624 (13.57 %)SQL Server
2589 (12.80 %)DB2
3505 (10.98 %)Data Warehouse
4366 (7.957 %)DataStage
5312 (6.783 %)ETL
6247 (5.370 %)BusinessObjects
7207 (4.500 %)RDBMS
8160 (3.478 %)QualityStage
9141 (3.065 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
10133 (2.891 %)SQL Server Integration Services
11124 (2.696 %)Oracle Exadata
12120 (2.609 %)OLAP
13108 (2.348 %)Oracle 8/8i
14103 (2.239 %)Oracle OLAP
15100 (2.174 %)SQL Server 2008
1699 (2.152 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1699 (2.152 %)MySQL
1798 (2.130 %)Oracle 11g
1893 (2.022 %)BusinessObjects Data Services
1992 (2.000 %)Informix
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1146 (3.174 %)Ant
2136 (2.957 %)Eclipse
3106 (2.304 %)JUnit
4103 (2.239 %)Subversion
592 (2.000 %)LoadRunner
680 (1.739 %)ClearCase
766 (1.435 %)Team Foundation Server
853 (1.152 %)Maven
947 (1.022 %)Rational Application Developer
1040 (0.870 %)Visual Studio
1138 (0.826 %)Rational Rhapsody
1234 (0.739 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1331 (0.674 %)QuickTest Pro
1429 (0.630 %)ClearQuest
1528 (0.609 %)JMeter
1627 (0.587 %)ERwin
1627 (0.587 %)Selenium
1627 (0.587 %)Hudson
1722 (0.478 %)Talend Open Studio
1821 (0.457 %)WebSphere Studio Application Developer
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11301 (28.28 %)Finance
2622 (13.52 %)Banking
3469 (10.20 %)Retail
4181 (3.935 %)Telecoms
5126 (2.739 %)Back Office
6113 (2.457 %)Manufacturing
7103 (2.239 %)Marketing
895 (2.065 %)Investment Banking
950 (1.087 %)Financial Institution
1036 (0.783 %)Legal
1134 (0.739 %)Games
1232 (0.696 %)Front Office
1323 (0.500 %)Pharmaceutical
1421 (0.457 %)Advertising
1421 (0.457 %)Law
1421 (0.457 %)Music
1421 (0.457 %)German Language
1518 (0.391 %)Retail Banking
1614 (0.304 %)French Language
1614 (0.304 %)Spanish Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11030 (22.39 %)Architect
2663 (14.41 %)Developer
3645 (14.02 %)Consultant
4598 (13.00 %)Analyst
5310 (6.739 %)Java Developer
6306 (6.652 %)Administrator
7298 (6.478 %)Solutions Architect
8215 (4.674 %)Support Analyst
9153 (3.326 %)Applications Support
10141 (3.065 %)Lead Architect
11136 (2.957 %)Java/J2EE Developer
12130 (2.826 %)Systems Administrator
13104 (2.261 %)Technical Architect
13104 (2.261 %)J2EE Developer
1494 (2.043 %)Project Manager
1592 (2.000 %)Senior Consultant
1690 (1.957 %)Infrastructure Manager
1785 (1.848 %)Support Engineer
1883 (1.804 %)Senior Developer
1979 (1.717 %)Technical Consultant
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1209 (4.543 %)Mainframe
2170 (3.696 %)iSeries
3122 (2.652 %)Replication
4118 (2.565 %)Management Information System
5115 (2.500 %)Clustering
6114 (2.478 %)CLARiiON
7111 (2.413 %)Open Source
893 (2.022 %)Computer Science
987 (1.891 %)IBM Mainframe
1081 (1.761 %)SWIFT
1180 (1.739 %)Enterprise Storage
1278 (1.696 %)DataPower
1377 (1.674 %)AS400
1476 (1.652 %)Symmetrix
1476 (1.652 %)Data Integration
1574 (1.609 %)Blackberry
1671 (1.543 %)Web 2.0
1768 (1.478 %)Cloud Computing
1848 (1.043 %)SaaS
1946 (1.000 %)Client/Server
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11181 (25.67 %)Windows
21061 (23.07 %)UNIX
3923 (20.07 %)Linux
4464 (10.09 %)AIX
5338 (7.348 %)Solaris
6325 (7.065 %)Windows Server 2008
7307 (6.674 %)Windows Server 2003
8193 (4.196 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
998 (2.130 %)HPUX
1080 (1.739 %)Windows 2000 Server
1170 (1.522 %)Windows XP
1268 (1.478 %)Windows 7
1351 (1.109 %)zOS
1447 (1.022 %)SUSE
1534 (0.739 %)Windows 2000
1534 (0.739 %)Windows Vista
1630 (0.652 %)CentOS
1729 (0.630 %)Android
1827 (0.587 %)VMS
1924 (0.522 %)Windows NT
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1541 (11.76 %)Business Intelligence
2505 (10.98 %)ITIL
3470 (10.22 %)SOA
4415 (9.022 %)E-Commerce
5362 (7.870 %)Project Management
6305 (6.630 %)Data Management
7273 (5.935 %)UML
8247 (5.370 %)Service Delivery
9232 (5.043 %)CRM
10230 (5.000 %)Agile Software Development
11197 (4.283 %)Disaster Recovery
12174 (3.783 %)Migration
12174 (3.783 %)OO
13172 (3.739 %)Data Modelling
14168 (3.652 %)Change Management
15143 (3.109 %)Content Management
16142 (3.087 %)Service Management
17140 (3.043 %)Enterprise Architecture
18134 (2.913 %)TOGAF
19131 (2.848 %)Scrum
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11275 (27.72 %)Java
21058 (23.00 %)SQL
3302 (6.565 %)JavaScript
4287 (6.239 %)Perl
5245 (5.326 %)C#
6232 (5.043 %)Shell Script
7174 (3.783 %)C
8161 (3.500 %)PL/SQL
9157 (3.413 %)C++
10105 (2.283 %)Ruby
1197 (2.109 %)PHP
1287 (1.891 %)Python
1384 (1.826 %)VBScript
1384 (1.826 %)VB
1466 (1.435 %)T-SQL
1555 (1.196 %)Korn
1652 (1.130 %)Bash shell
1745 (0.978 %)PowerShell
1841 (0.891 %)JCL
1938 (0.826 %)Jython
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1443 (9.630 %)Degree
2186 (4.043 %)Security Cleared
3177 (3.848 %)Microsoft Certification
4131 (2.848 %)IBM Certification
4131 (2.848 %)MCSE
5113 (2.457 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
697 (2.109 %)ISEB
791 (1.978 %)Cisco Certification
890 (1.957 %)ITIL Certification
988 (1.913 %)SC Cleared
1083 (1.804 %)MCITP
1156 (1.217 %)CCNA
1249 (1.065 %)MCSA
1249 (1.065 %)NCDA
1348 (1.043 %)Citrix Certification
1446 (1.000 %)CISSP
1542 (0.913 %)MCP
1640 (0.870 %)CCA
1738 (0.826 %)Sun Certification
1738 (0.826 %)NCIE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1318 (6.913 %)QA
2122 (2.652 %)Data Quality
3111 (2.413 %)SLA
429 (0.630 %)PCI DSS
525 (0.543 %)ISO/IEC 27001
615 (0.326 %)ISO 8583
711 (0.239 %)COBIT
810 (0.217 %)IEC 61508
99 (0.196 %)ISO 9001
105 (0.109 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
113 (0.065 %)TickIT
113 (0.065 %)ISO 12207
113 (0.065 %)Solvency II
113 (0.065 %)Val IT
122 (0.043 %)BS7799
131 (0.022 %)ISO 9000
131 (0.022 %)COSO
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1453 (9.848 %)VMware Infrastructure
2327 (7.109 %)Active Directory
3163 (3.543 %)vSphere
4139 (3.022 %)VMware ESX
5136 (2.957 %)Hyper-V
664 (1.391 %)XenApp
748 (1.043 %)VMware ESXi
846 (1.000 %)XenDesktop
942 (0.913 %)NFS
1038 (0.826 %)XenServer
1132 (0.696 %)Oracle RAC
1224 (0.522 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1320 (0.435 %)VMware Workstation
1419 (0.413 %)Oracle RMAN
1419 (0.413 %)Samba
1516 (0.348 %)Xen
1615 (0.326 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1713 (0.283 %)SRDF
1713 (0.283 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1713 (0.283 %)ISA Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1397 (8.630 %)Tivoli
2206 (4.478 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
3181 (3.935 %)NetBackup
498 (2.130 %)SCOM
581 (1.761 %)Backup Exec
670 (1.522 %)SCCM
769 (1.500 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
854 (1.174 %)Netcool
947 (1.022 %)WSUS
1044 (0.957 %)Control-M
1044 (0.957 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1141 (0.891 %)BladeLogic
1238 (0.826 %)EMC NetWorker
1337 (0.804 %)Nagios
1433 (0.717 %)Legato
1532 (0.696 %)CA Wily
1630 (0.652 %)CA SiteMinder
1726 (0.565 %)BMC PATROL
1726 (0.565 %)vCenter
1726 (0.565 %)HP Data Protector
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11680 (36.52 %)Oracle
21023 (22.24 %)Microsoft
3999 (21.72 %)HP
4638 (13.87 %)Cisco
5637 (13.85 %)VMware
6510 (11.09 %)EMC
7435 (9.457 %)SAP
8379 (8.239 %)NetApp
9377 (8.196 %)Sun
10310 (6.739 %)Business Objects
11308 (6.696 %)Citrix
12285 (6.196 %)Teradata
13266 (5.783 %)Red Hat
14252 (5.478 %)Cognos
15217 (4.717 %)Dell
16215 (4.674 %)Informatica
17213 (4.630 %)JBoss
18183 (3.978 %)Symantec
19178 (3.870 %)TIBCO
20151 (3.283 %)BMC