IBM Job Trends in England

IBM
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 February 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
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 339 347
Rank change year-on-year -84 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing IBM 204 364 490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.81% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 2.08% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 126 175 344
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £34,854
25th Percentile £52,813 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,886 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £80,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +30.43% -8.00% +0.81%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,023 17,534 25,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.95% 39.09% 38.28%
Number of salaries quoted 9,941 9,096 20,053
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,561 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +11.66% -10.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +12.75% -11.30%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IBM job vacancy trend in England

IBM
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in England

IBM
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
London -8 73 £80,000 +33.33% 34
South East +4 47 £64,600 +7.67% 28
Midlands 0 30 £68,750 +14.58% 4
West Midlands +8 23 £65,000 +18.18% 2
North of England -60 21 £52,750 +2.95% 11
East of England +18 17 £65,000 +8.33% 5
South West -36 14 £50,100 -30.41% 8
North West -36 11 £48,450 -6.59% 8
Yorkshire -45 10 £53,500 +7.00% 2
East Midlands -14 7 £75,900 +26.50% 2
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 16 (7.84%) WebSphere
2 13 (6.37%) Tomcat
3 12 (5.88%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (3.43%) Anypoint
5 7 (3.43%) Confluence
6 4 (1.96%) FileNet
6 4 (1.96%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.98%) CICS
7 2 (0.98%) HCL Domino
7 2 (0.98%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.49%) IIS
8 1 (0.49%) JBoss
8 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (6.86%) CATIA
2 6 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Simulink
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (8.82%) Maximo
2 9 (4.41%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 7 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (2.94%) Shopify
5 2 (0.98%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.98%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.98%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (0.98%) Infor LN
5 2 (0.98%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 2 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.98%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (0.98%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.49%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.49%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.49%) HFM
6 1 (0.49%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.49%) Misys Equation
6 1 (0.49%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.49%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 40 (19.61%) AWS
2 33 (16.18%) Azure
3 19 (9.31%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.39%) GCP
6 9 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (4.41%) Boomi
6 9 (4.41%) Entra ID
7 8 (3.92%) Amazon S3
7 8 (3.92%) SaaS
8 7 (3.43%) GitHub
8 7 (3.43%) iPaaS
8 7 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (3.43%) Workato
9 6 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.94%) Serverless
10 5 (2.45%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.45%) Route 53
11 4 (1.96%) Alation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.86%) SSL
2 7 (3.43%) Firewall
3 6 (2.94%) LAN
3 6 (2.94%) WAN
4 5 (2.45%) Internet
4 5 (2.45%) VLAN
4 5 (2.45%) VPN
5 4 (1.96%) MPLS
5 4 (1.96%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.47%) Ethernet
6 3 (1.47%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.47%) InfiniBand
6 3 (1.47%) SNA
7 2 (0.98%) Network Security
7 2 (0.98%) VoIP
7 2 (0.98%) WinSCP
7 2 (0.98%) Wireless
8 1 (0.49%) DHCP
8 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.24%) DB2
2 16 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (7.35%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.39%) Power BI
5 10 (4.90%) Tableau
6 9 (4.41%) Metadata
7 7 (3.43%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.94%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.96%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.96%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.96%) DataStage
10 4 (1.96%) QlikView
11 3 (1.47%) Delta Lake
11 3 (1.47%) Parquet
12 2 (0.98%) Big Data
12 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.98%) Informix
12 2 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 54 (26.47%) Rational DOORS
2 34 (16.67%) JIRA
3 10 (4.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.94%) Selenium
5 4 (1.96%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.96%) ER Studio
5 4 (1.96%) ERwin
5 4 (1.96%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (1.47%) Apache Continuum
6 3 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.47%) Git
6 3 (1.47%) GitLab
6 3 (1.47%) JMeter
6 3 (1.47%) LoadRunner
6 3 (1.47%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.47%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.98%) Synon
7 2 (0.98%) webpack
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.49%) CA Release Automation
General
1 57 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 52 (25.49%) Finance
3 28 (13.73%) Banking
4 25 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.25%) Electronics
5 13 (6.37%) Retail
6 11 (5.39%) Legal
7 9 (4.41%) Investment Banking
7 9 (4.41%) Law
8 7 (3.43%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.94%) Publishing
10 5 (2.45%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.96%) Marketing
11 4 (1.96%) Retail Banking
12 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (21.57%) Systems Engineer
2 34 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
2 34 (16.67%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 33 (16.18%) Senior
4 26 (12.75%) Developer
5 18 (8.82%) Applications Support
6 15 (7.35%) Architect
7 13 (6.37%) Linux Support
8 12 (5.88%) Consultant
8 12 (5.88%) Lead
9 11 (5.39%) Analyst
9 11 (5.39%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.90%) Integration Engineer
11 9 (4.41%) Infrastructure Support
11 9 (4.41%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) Requirements Manager
12 8 (3.92%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.92%) Systems Manager
12 8 (3.92%) Unix Support
13 7 (3.43%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.84%) Middleware
2 15 (7.35%) WebSphere MQ
3 14 (6.86%) REST
4 13 (6.37%) Web Services
5 12 (5.88%) LAPP Stack
5 12 (5.88%) LDAP
5 12 (5.88%) SOAP
6 9 (4.41%) RESTful
7 8 (3.92%) OAuth
7 8 (3.92%) XML
8 7 (3.43%) BAPI
8 7 (3.43%) IBM Integration Bus
8 7 (3.43%) JMS
8 7 (3.43%) SAML
9 6 (2.94%) JSON
10 5 (2.45%) .NET
10 5 (2.45%) React
11 4 (1.96%) EDI
11 4 (1.96%) YAML
12 3 (1.47%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 12 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (5.39%) iSeries
5 10 (4.90%) AS400
5 10 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.43%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.45%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.45%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (2.45%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.96%) IoT
8 4 (1.96%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.96%) Reinsurance
8 4 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.47%) Acoustics
9 3 (1.47%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.69%) Linux
2 30 (14.71%) Windows
3 28 (13.73%) Unix
4 15 (7.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.41%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.94%) AIX
7 5 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (2.45%) zOS
8 4 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.98%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.49%) MVS
10 1 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.49%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.47%) Systems Engineering
2 43 (21.08%) Agile
3 36 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (16.18%) Technical Leadership
5 31 (15.20%) Change Management
6 29 (14.22%) Test Planning
7 25 (12.25%) ITIL
8 24 (11.76%) Decision-Making
9 21 (10.29%) Analytics
10 20 (9.80%) Requirements Management
10 20 (9.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (9.31%) Asset Management
11 19 (9.31%) Waterfall
12 17 (8.33%) Customer Experience
12 17 (8.33%) DevOps
12 17 (8.33%) Signal Processing
13 16 (7.84%) ERP
13 16 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (7.84%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 39 (19.12%) Python
2 26 (12.75%) SQL
3 24 (11.76%) Java
4 16 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.41%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.43%) C#
6 7 (3.43%) RPG
6 7 (3.43%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.45%) Bash
8 4 (1.96%) JCL
8 4 (1.96%) MATLAB
8 4 (1.96%) REXX
9 3 (1.47%) Scala
10 2 (0.98%) C
10 2 (0.98%) Korn
10 2 (0.98%) Perl
10 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.49%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 55 (26.96%) BPSS Clearance
2 49 (24.02%) Degree
3 20 (9.80%) Security Cleared
4 18 (8.82%) AWS Certification
5 17 (8.33%) SC Cleared
6 12 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (4.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.41%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (2.94%) ACCA
11 6 (2.94%) CIMA
12 5 (2.45%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.96%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (1.47%) IBM Certification
14 3 (1.47%) ICAEW
14 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (1.47%) RHCE
14 3 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.12%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 17 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 14 (6.86%) SLA
4 12 (5.88%) GDPR
5 9 (4.41%) QA
6 8 (3.92%) Data Quality
7 6 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (2.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.98%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.92%) Docker
4 4 (1.96%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 4 (1.96%) XenApp
5 3 (1.47%) Lustre
5 3 (1.47%) Time Sharing Option
5 3 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.98%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.98%) vSphere
7 1 (0.49%) ACF2
7 1 (0.49%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 1 (0.49%) RACF
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.92%) Terraform
3 7 (3.43%) Ansible
4 5 (2.45%) Control-M
4 5 (2.45%) Netcool
5 4 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.47%) HP Fortify
6 3 (1.47%) Nessus
6 3 (1.47%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.47%) SCCM
7 2 (0.98%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.98%) Nagios
7 2 (0.98%) Netcool/OMNIbus
7 2 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.98%) VxRail
8 1 (0.49%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (12.25%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.76%) SAP
3 23 (11.27%) Oracle
4 16 (7.84%) Dell
5 15 (7.35%) Red Hat
6 13 (6.37%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.39%) Informatica
7 11 (5.39%) VMware
8 10 (4.90%) Talend
9 9 (4.41%) Citrix
9 9 (4.41%) Infor
10 8 (3.92%) Cognos
11 7 (3.43%) Epicor
11 7 (3.43%) IFS
11 7 (3.43%) Jitterbit
11 7 (3.43%) MuleSoft
11 7 (3.43%) SnapLogic
11 7 (3.43%) Software AG
11 7 (3.43%) TIBCO
11 7 (3.43%) Workday