IBM Job Trends in Merseyside

IBM
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 26 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Permanent jobs citing IBM 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.15% - 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.59% - 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £44,425
25th Percentile - - £47,854
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £54,036
75th Percentile - - £59,751
90th Percentile - - £62,901
North West median annual salary £62,498 £40,000 £44,036
% change year-on-year +56.25% -9.17% -32.25%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 340 315 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.32% 56.65% 30.94%
Number of salaries quoted 243 106 193
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £26,500 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £65,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -15.00% -9.09%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Merseyside

IBM
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing IBM

IBM
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 26 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
Liverpool - 2 £70,000 - 1
IBM
North West

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Mockito
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) React Native
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG