IBM Job Trends in London

IBM
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 290 331
Rank change year-on-year -59 +41 +12
Permanent jobs citing IBM 92 103 130
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.39% 0.84% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.93% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 63 26 66
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +25.93% +3.85%
75th Percentile £95,625 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% +19.23% -18.79%

All Vendors
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,059 5,347 7,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.66% 43.85% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 4,640 3,407 4,815
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £107,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% - -8.70%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

IBM job vacancy trend in London

IBM
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in London

IBM
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
West London -18 8 £80,000 +23.08% 1
South London - 7 £92,500 -
Central London -8 6 £100,000 +53.85% 7
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 10 (10.87%) Confluence
2 6 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) CICS
3 1 (1.09%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.09%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.09%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (10.87%) MS Visio
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (11.96%) FLEXCUBE
1 11 (11.96%) Oracle Retail
2 8 (8.70%) Maximo
3 5 (5.43%) Fidessa
4 2 (2.17%) Misys Equation
4 2 (2.17%) Misys Midas
5 1 (1.09%) HFM
5 1 (1.09%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) AWS
3 10 (10.87%) Lucidchart
3 10 (10.87%) Serverless
4 8 (8.70%) Amazon Kinesis
5 6 (6.52%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.26%) GCP
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.17%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (2.17%) OCI
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) BGP
1 6 (6.52%) DNS
1 6 (6.52%) IPsec
1 6 (6.52%) VPN
2 2 (2.17%) AMQP
2 2 (2.17%) MQTT
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (23.91%) Db2
2 12 (13.04%) Oracle Database
3 10 (10.87%) DTS
3 10 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.52%) Apache Hive
5 6 (6.52%) Big Data
5 6 (6.52%) Hadoop
5 6 (6.52%) HBase
5 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.35%) Power BI
6 4 (4.35%) Tableau
7 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.09%) IBM InfoSphere
8 1 (1.09%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (6.52%) JIRA
2 2 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.96%) Finance
3 32 (34.78%) Banking
4 12 (13.04%) Retail
5 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (9.78%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (8.70%) Financial Institution
8 7 (7.61%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (6.52%) Marketing
9 6 (6.52%) Military
10 5 (5.43%) Front Office
11 4 (4.35%) Legal
12 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
12 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Senior
2 16 (17.39%) Consultant
2 16 (17.39%) Senior Consultant
3 14 (15.22%) Architect
4 13 (14.13%) Analyst
4 13 (14.13%) Developer
4 13 (14.13%) Solutions Architect
5 12 (13.04%) Applications Manager
5 12 (13.04%) Applications Support
5 12 (13.04%) Support Analyst
6 11 (11.96%) DBA
6 11 (11.96%) Oracle DBA
6 11 (11.96%) Senior DBA
6 11 (11.96%) Senior Oracle DBA
7 10 (10.87%) Application Development Manager
7 10 (10.87%) Applications Development Manager
7 10 (10.87%) Applications Support Manager
7 10 (10.87%) Development Manager
7 10 (10.87%) Support Manager
8 7 (7.61%) Maximo Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.83%) Kafka
2 16 (17.39%) Node.js
3 12 (13.04%) Spring
3 12 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 11 (11.96%) Middleware
4 11 (11.96%) XML
5 7 (7.61%) Web Services
6 5 (5.43%) FIX Protocol
7 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (2.17%) .NET
9 2 (2.17%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (2.17%) JMS
9 2 (2.17%) JSON
9 2 (2.17%) RESTful
10 1 (1.09%) .NET Core
10 1 (1.09%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.09%) React
10 1 (1.09%) REST
10 1 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.57%) Legacy Systems
2 15 (16.30%) iSeries
3 13 (14.13%) AS400
3 13 (14.13%) Onboarding
4 10 (10.87%) EPoS
5 5 (5.43%) Equities
6 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (2.17%) Blog
7 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.09%) LPAR
8 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
8 1 (1.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 26 (28.26%) Linux
2 15 (16.30%) Unix
3 11 (11.96%) AIX
3 11 (11.96%) Oracle Linux
3 11 (11.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.00%) ITIL
2 16 (17.39%) Mentoring
2 16 (17.39%) Performance Tuning
2 16 (17.39%) Project Delivery
3 15 (16.30%) Agile
3 15 (16.30%) Change Management
3 15 (16.30%) Microservices
4 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (14.13%) AI
5 13 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (14.13%) High Availability
5 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
6 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
6 12 (13.04%) Event-Driven
6 12 (13.04%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 12 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.04%) Project Management
6 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (11.96%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) SQL
2 31 (33.70%) Java
3 29 (31.52%) RPG
4 17 (18.48%) Python
5 11 (11.96%) Bash
5 11 (11.96%) COBOL
5 11 (11.96%) Korn
5 11 (11.96%) PL/SQL
5 11 (11.96%) Shell Script
6 7 (7.61%) C#
7 6 (6.52%) C
7 6 (6.52%) PHP
7 6 (6.52%) Ruby
8 5 (5.43%) Tcl
9 4 (4.35%) VB
9 4 (4.35%) VBA
9 4 (4.35%) VBScript
10 1 (1.09%) JCL
10 1 (1.09%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Degree
2 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.17%) FFIEC
4 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.17%) PMP
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.09%) PhD
5 1 (1.09%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 2 (2.17%) COBIT
3 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) MiFID
3 2 (2.17%) PMO
3 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (11.96%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Data Guard
1 11 (11.96%) Nagios
1 11 (11.96%) Oracle RMAN
2 6 (6.52%) Hadoop YARN
3 4 (4.35%) SCCM
4 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (48.91%) Oracle
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
3 13 (14.13%) SAP
4 11 (11.96%) IBM Sterling
5 10 (10.87%) HP
6 7 (7.61%) TIBCO
7 5 (5.43%) Sybase
7 5 (5.43%) VMware
8 4 (4.35%) Adobe
8 4 (4.35%) Snow
9 3 (3.26%) Citrix
9 3 (3.26%) Google
10 2 (2.17%) Alibaba
10 2 (2.17%) Dell
10 2 (2.17%) EMC
10 2 (2.17%) Misys
11 1 (1.09%) Globalscape
11 1 (1.09%) Hyperion
11 1 (1.09%) Informatica