IBM Job Trends in Central London

IBM
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 164 169
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 +80
Permanent jobs citing IBM 6 19 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.25% 0.59% 0.26%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 1.36% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile £85,375 £53,250 £64,625
25th Percentile £91,563 £62,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £111,250 £75,000 £81,500
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% -7.98% -4.12%
75th Percentile £120,313 £81,250 £94,688
90th Percentile £123,125 £105,000 £108,375
London median annual salary £85,000 £54,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year +56.68% -21.88% +6.84%

All Vendors
Central London

IBM falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 867 1,392 1,196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 36.47% 42.91% 38.78%
Number of salaries quoted 659 918 1,046
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,375 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £97,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IBM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

IBM job vacancy trend in Central London

IBM
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in Central London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in Central London

IBM
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +21 6 £111,250 +48.33% 10
Southwark - 1 £110,000 -
IBM
London

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Alation
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (16.67%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 2 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (33.33%) DataStage
1 2 (33.33%) Metadata
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
1 2 (33.33%) QlikView
1 2 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) ER Studio
1 2 (33.33%) ERwin
1 2 (33.33%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 2 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) RPG Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (33.33%) Reinsurance
2 1 (16.67%) Life Science
2 1 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 2 (33.33%) GTM Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Presales
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) RPG
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (33.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Gemalto
2 1 (16.67%) Thales