IBM Watson Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM Watson
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing IBM Watson 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.059% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

IBM Watson falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 309 201 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.12% 32.21% 28.76%
Number of salaries quoted 265 95 390
10th Percentile £29,400 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £59,375 £59,276
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,600 £78,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £56,504 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in Cheshire

IBM Watson
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing IBM Watson.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing IBM Watson

IBM Watson
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Watson within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Chester - 1 £47,500 - 1
IBM Watson
North West

IBM Watson
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware