IBM Job Trends in the Midlands

IBM
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 177 221
Rank change year-on-year -35 +44 -54
Permanent jobs citing IBM 31 37 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.29% 0.77% 0.72%
As % of the Vendors category 1.24% 1.84% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22 34 32
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,875 £53,750 £41,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +33.33% +30.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £69,688
90th Percentile £87,250 £72,625 £91,117
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,507 2,007 3,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 23.62% 41.75% 37.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,382 1,311 3,119
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,822 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,786 £74,014 £72,500
England median annual salary £54,068 £57,443 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +14.89% -13.04%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IBM
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in the Midlands

IBM
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 March 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 Midlands -11 23 £65,000 +8.33% 7
East Midlands -49 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.68%) FileNet
3 1 (3.23%) CICS
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Maximo
2 3 (9.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (6.45%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (3.23%) Cognos Controller
4 1 (3.23%) HFM
4 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (12.90%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.23%) OCI
4 1 (3.23%) PaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
1 4 (12.90%) LAN
1 4 (12.90%) MPLS
1 4 (12.90%) SD-WAN
1 4 (12.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) DB2
2 2 (6.45%) Easytrieve
2 2 (6.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) Adabas
3 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.23%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (16.13%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Retail
6 2 (6.45%) Electronics
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Senior
4 5 (16.13%) Business Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Data Business Analyst
4 5 (16.13%) Maximo Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Software Licensing Specialist
6 3 (9.68%) Integration Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Integration Specialist
6 3 (9.68%) Oracle Specialist
6 3 (9.68%) SAP Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Licensing Manager
6 3 (9.68%) Software Manager
7 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Financial Analyst
7 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Principal Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) BAPI
1 3 (9.68%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (9.68%) JMS
1 3 (9.68%) Middleware
1 3 (9.68%) OAuth
1 3 (9.68%) REST
1 3 (9.68%) SAML
1 3 (9.68%) SOAP
2 2 (6.45%) ISPF
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (9.68%) Mainframe
2 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (9.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Agile
2 7 (22.58%) User Stories
3 6 (19.35%) ITIL
4 5 (16.13%) Asset Management
4 5 (16.13%) BPMN
4 5 (16.13%) Business Analysis
4 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
4 5 (16.13%) Data Stewardship
4 5 (16.13%) Master Data Management
4 5 (16.13%) Regulatory Change
4 5 (16.13%) UML
4 5 (16.13%) Use Case
4 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
4 5 (16.13%) Workflow
5 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (12.90%) Software Licensing
5 4 (12.90%) Storage Management
6 3 (9.68%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.68%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.68%) COBOL
3 3 (9.68%) Java
3 3 (9.68%) JCL
4 2 (6.45%) Assembly Language
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) Natural
5 1 (3.23%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.45%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.23%) ACCA
3 1 (3.23%) CIMA
3 1 (3.23%) Degree
3 1 (3.23%) ICAEW
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Active Directory
1 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (12.90%) XenApp
2 2 (6.45%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) Control-M
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 4 (12.90%) CheckPoint
3 4 (12.90%) Cisco
3 4 (12.90%) Citrix
3 4 (12.90%) Meraki
3 4 (12.90%) SonicWALL
3 4 (12.90%) Veeam
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) Cognos
4 3 (9.68%) SAP
5 2 (6.45%) Workday
6 1 (3.23%) Adobe
6 1 (3.23%) BMC
6 1 (3.23%) Hyperion
6 1 (3.23%) Talend