The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 108 140 74
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -66
Permanent jobs citing IBM 93 50 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.849% 1.083% 2.553%
As % of the Vendors category 3.633% 2.247% 5.172%
Number of salaries quoted 78 45 76
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +0.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,700 £27,000 £33,750
10% offered a salary of more than £60,750 £48,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All Vendors
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2560 2225 2011
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 50.89% 48.21% 49.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2080 1871 1666
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
IBM
England

IBM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands IBM Salary Trend

IBM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IBM across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands IBM Salary Histogram

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +23 46 £45,000 -5.26%
Warwickshire +3 14 £40,000 +42.85%
Worcestershire +11 6 £60,000 +84.61%
Staffordshire +1 4 £34,500 +11.29%
Herefordshire +17 2 £27,500 -15.38%
Coventry -15 2 £55,000 +7.31%
IBM
England

IBM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 95 (52.78%) Windows
2 78 (43.33%) VMware
3 76 (42.22%) HP
4 67 (37.22%) Linux
5 53 (29.44%) Oracle
6 51 (28.33%) WebSphere
7 47 (26.11%) UNIX
8 46 (25.56%) VMware Infrastructure
9 45 (25.00%) Microsoft
10 38 (21.11%) SQL
11 36 (20.00%) DB2
11 36 (20.00%) Red Hat
12 35 (19.44%) SAN
12 35 (19.44%) Cisco
13 33 (18.33%) NetApp
14 32 (17.78%) Active Directory
14 32 (17.78%) J2EE
14 32 (17.78%) Windows Server 2008
15 31 (17.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 30 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
16 30 (16.67%) ERP
17 28 (15.56%) MS Exchange
18 26 (14.44%) WebSphere MQ
18 26 (14.44%) WebSphere Message Broker
18 26 (14.44%) Degree
19 25 (13.89%) vSphere
19 25 (13.89%) Subversion
20 24 (13.33%) SharePoint
21 23 (12.78%) Java
21 23 (12.78%) Oracle ERP

IBM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 51 (28.33%) WebSphere
2 32 (17.78%) J2EE
3 23 (12.78%) Java EE
4 10 (5.556%) .NET
4 10 (5.556%) HTML
5 8 (4.444%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (3.889%) Ajax
7 5 (2.778%) CSS
8 4 (2.222%) XML
8 4 (2.222%) Struts
8 4 (2.222%) jQuery
8 4 (2.222%) HTML5
9 3 (1.667%) CSS3
9 3 (1.667%) Web Services
9 3 (1.667%) DOM
9 3 (1.667%) JSP
9 3 (1.667%) Servlets
9 3 (1.667%) JMS
9 3 (1.667%) XHTML
9 3 (1.667%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 28 (15.56%) MS Exchange
2 26 (14.44%) WebSphere MQ
2 26 (14.44%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 24 (13.33%) SharePoint
4 18 (10.00%) IIS
5 16 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2007
6 12 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (4.444%) WebSphere Application Server
8 7 (3.889%) WebSphere Process Server
9 6 (3.333%) ESB
10 5 (2.778%) WebSphere Portal
11 4 (2.222%) Tomcat
12 3 (1.667%) Quickr
12 3 (1.667%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (1.667%) AquaLogic
12 3 (1.667%) AquaLogic Service Bus
12 3 (1.667%) Drupal
12 3 (1.667%) WebLogic
12 3 (1.667%) Lotus Notes
12 3 (1.667%) WebLogic Portal
Applications
1 22 (12.22%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.667%) MS Office
3 2 (1.111%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 23 (12.78%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (4.444%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.667%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 3 (1.667%) Cognos Controller
3 3 (1.667%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.667%) AquaLogic BPM
4 2 (1.111%) Cognos Planning
5 1 (0.556%) SAP Business One
5 1 (0.556%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 35 (19.44%) SAN
2 15 (8.333%) DNS
3 14 (7.778%) DHCP
3 14 (7.778%) Firewall
3 14 (7.778%) VLAN
3 14 (7.778%) iSCSI
4 12 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
5 10 (5.556%) VPN
5 10 (5.556%) NetScaler
6 7 (3.889%) NAS
6 7 (3.889%) LAN
6 7 (3.889%) WAN
7 5 (2.778%) Network Security
8 4 (2.222%) VoIP
9 3 (1.667%) Unified Communications
9 3 (1.667%) LDAP
9 3 (1.667%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.111%) MPLS
10 2 (1.111%) WLAN
10 2 (1.111%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) DB2
2 13 (7.222%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.889%) DataStage
4 6 (3.333%) IBM InfoSphere
5 4 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.667%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.111%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.111%) TOAD
7 2 (1.111%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.556%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.556%) Cognos Powerplay
8 1 (0.556%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.556%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (13.89%) Subversion
2 4 (2.222%) ClearCase
3 3 (1.667%) Ant
4 2 (1.111%) ClearQuest
4 2 (1.111%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 2 (1.111%) TortoiseSVN
4 2 (1.111%) Maven
4 2 (1.111%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (1.111%) Rational Application Developer
5 1 (0.556%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.556%) Build Forge
5 1 (0.556%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.556%) LSMW
5 1 (0.556%) MSI
5 1 (0.556%) InstallShield
5 1 (0.556%) AdminStudio
General
1 17 (9.444%) Finance
2 9 (5.000%) Retail
3 5 (2.778%) Advertising
4 3 (1.667%) Banking
5 2 (1.111%) Back Office
6 1 (0.556%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.556%) Marketing
6 1 (0.556%) Billing
6 1 (0.556%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.556%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 36 (20.00%) Analyst
2 32 (17.78%) Administrator
3 30 (16.67%) Architect
4 26 (14.44%) Consultant
5 20 (11.11%) Developer
6 13 (7.222%) Technical Specialist
7 11 (6.111%) Technical Architect
8 10 (5.556%) IT Consultant
8 10 (5.556%) Configuration Engineer
9 9 (5.000%) Storage Specialist
10 7 (3.889%) Virtualisation Consultant
10 7 (3.889%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (3.889%) Citrix Consultant
10 7 (3.889%) Business Developer
10 7 (3.889%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
11 6 (3.333%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (3.333%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (2.778%) Backup Specialist
12 5 (2.778%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.111%) iSeries
2 10 (5.556%) AS400
3 9 (5.000%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (3.889%) Open Source
4 7 (3.889%) Clustering
5 6 (3.333%) Firmware
6 4 (2.222%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.222%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.667%) LPAR
7 3 (1.667%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.111%) HACMP
8 2 (1.111%) Computer Science
9 1 (0.556%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.556%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.556%) Web 2.0
9 1 (0.556%) Symmetrix DMX
9 1 (0.556%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.556%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.556%) CLARiiON
9 1 (0.556%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 95 (52.78%) Windows
2 67 (37.22%) Linux
3 47 (26.11%) UNIX
4 32 (17.78%) Windows Server 2008
5 31 (17.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 30 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 20 (11.11%) Solaris
8 9 (5.000%) HPUX
9 5 (2.778%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.222%) Windows XP
10 4 (2.222%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.667%) Windows 2000 Server
11 3 (1.667%) Mac OS
11 3 (1.667%) Windows NT
12 2 (1.111%) OS/390
12 2 (1.111%) zOS
12 2 (1.111%) AIX
12 2 (1.111%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.556%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.556%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (16.67%) ERP
2 23 (12.78%) Root Cause Analysis
3 15 (8.333%) Technical Architecture
4 14 (7.778%) Time Management
5 13 (7.222%) Project Management
6 10 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (5.556%) Change Control
7 7 (3.889%) ETL
8 6 (3.333%) SOA
8 6 (3.333%) ITIL
8 6 (3.333%) Resource Management
8 6 (3.333%) Change Data Capture
9 5 (2.778%) Analytics
9 5 (2.778%) Web Development
9 5 (2.778%) Release Management
9 5 (2.778%) E-Commerce
9 5 (2.778%) Network Design
10 4 (2.222%) Service Delivery
10 4 (2.222%) Content Management
10 4 (2.222%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.11%) SQL
2 23 (12.78%) Java
3 8 (4.444%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.667%) Perl
4 3 (1.667%) Jython
5 2 (1.111%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.111%) VB.NET
5 2 (1.111%) VBScript
6 1 (0.556%) Ruby
6 1 (0.556%) VB
6 1 (0.556%) PHP
6 1 (0.556%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.556%) RPG
6 1 (0.556%) COBOL
6 1 (0.556%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (14.44%) Degree
2 12 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 11 (6.111%) MCITP
3 11 (6.111%) Citrix Certification
4 10 (5.556%) CCEA
4 10 (5.556%) CCIA
4 10 (5.556%) CCEE
5 8 (4.444%) IBM Certification
5 8 (4.444%) CCAA
6 5 (2.778%) MCTS
6 5 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.778%) CCA
7 4 (2.222%) MCP
8 3 (1.667%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.667%) Security Cleared
8 3 (1.667%) MCSE
8 3 (1.667%) CCNA
8 3 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.111%) CCNP
9 2 (1.111%) NCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.333%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (2.222%) QA
3 2 (1.111%) SLA
System Software
1 46 (25.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (17.78%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.89%) vSphere
4 13 (7.222%) Hyper-V
5 12 (6.667%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 11 (6.111%) XenApp
6 11 (6.111%) XenServer
7 10 (5.556%) XenDesktop
7 10 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.778%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (2.222%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.556%) SRDF
10 1 (0.556%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.556%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (0.556%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (6.111%) NetBackup
2 8 (4.444%) SCOM
3 7 (3.889%) SCCM
4 6 (3.333%) Tivoli
5 5 (2.778%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (1.667%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.111%) Foglight
7 2 (1.111%) YUM
7 2 (1.111%) HP SIM
7 2 (1.111%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 1 (0.556%) WSUS
8 1 (0.556%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.556%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.556%) EMC TimeFinder
8 1 (0.556%) Nagios
8 1 (0.556%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 78 (43.33%) VMware
2 76 (42.22%) HP
3 53 (29.44%) Oracle
4 45 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 36 (20.00%) Red Hat
6 35 (19.44%) Cisco
7 33 (18.33%) NetApp
8 22 (12.22%) Citrix
9 19 (10.56%) EMC
10 12 (6.667%) DataCore
11 11 (6.111%) Cognos
12 10 (5.556%) Dell
12 10 (5.556%) Sun
12 10 (5.556%) Veeam
12 10 (5.556%) Acronis
13 8 (4.444%) Business Objects
14 6 (3.333%) Lotus
14 6 (3.333%) Netezza
15 5 (2.778%) JBoss
16 4 (2.222%) ATG
West Midlands
Knowledge of the following is required: - Solutions selling as part of a managed service Virtualisation - VMWare products Enterpriselevel storage - NetApp, HP & Dell Switches - HP and Cisco EMC, HP,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £110000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Understanding of SANs and LANs. *Strong Shell Scripting skills. *Experience of large AIX migration projects... *Linux (Red Hat) skills - will ideally have worked on Linux migration projects. *Understanding...
Polar Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + + Car & Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Virtualisation experience using VMWare. Knowledge of Tivoli products. Experience with Storage products - preferably IBM. Experience of Symantec Products... Security Cleared is highly desirable although ability to become so...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £70K basic + Car Allow + Excellent bonus and Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Based in Birmingham my client is looking for an experienced HP EVA Storage Technical Specialist to join their thriving data centre division... maintenance of documentation and processes) Skills,...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £40000 to £50000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Core design knowledge will include one or more of the following: Windows 2003 /2008 Server. Strong skills in HP EVA\3Par or EMC... Netbackup... Experience of Netapp and...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Car Allow + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
Hold current NASAP, NCDA an advantage. Knowledge of Cisco UCS or HP and IBM Server products an advantage. Knowledge of competitive storage solutions such and HP & EMC an...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £70K Basic + Car Allowance + Fuel Card + £10K Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Job Purpose: Responsible for supporting the Company’s NetApp and VMWare infrastructure... Ideally NCDA qualified. Experience of administering and managing VMware in large enterprise environments, using IBM and...
Monarch Recruitment
Salary: £55000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Any experience with vb.net for middleware would be an added advantage.This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking to be able to use a...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Midlands
The NetApp/VMWare Specialist will play an integral part of BAU, supporting and monitoring the systems to ensure maximum availability and performance- They will also be responsible for...
Michael Page
Salary: GBP35000 to GBP40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013