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 29 December 2025, 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
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 201 189
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 -44
Permanent jobs citing IBM 38 41 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.49% 0.61% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.87% 1.63% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 35 29 25
10th Percentile £51,250 £44,500 £42,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -18.52% +29.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,900 - £93,774
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +13.04%

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 2,037 2,516 2,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 26.10% 37.66% 43.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,240 1,207 1,811
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,150 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +17 29 £72,500 +39.42% 27
East Midlands -5 9 £75,900 +26.50% 12
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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.89%) FileNet
3 1 (2.63%) CICS
3 1 (2.63%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 12 (31.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (18.42%) Maximo
3 1 (2.63%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (2.63%) HFM
3 1 (2.63%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (2.63%) NetSuite
3 1 (2.63%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.63%) OCI
3 1 (2.63%) PaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Firewall
1 4 (10.53%) LAN
1 4 (10.53%) MPLS
1 4 (10.53%) SD-WAN
1 4 (10.53%) WAN
2 1 (2.63%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) DB2
1 2 (5.26%) Metadata
2 1 (2.63%) Adabas
2 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.63%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Electronics
5 1 (2.63%) Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
5 1 (2.63%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (50.00%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) SAP Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Integration Developer
3 7 (18.42%) Senior
4 6 (15.79%) Integration Specialist
4 6 (15.79%) Maximo Developer
5 5 (13.16%) ABAP Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Oracle Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Requirements Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Software Licensing Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Software Licensing Specialist
7 3 (7.89%) Software Manager
7 3 (7.89%) Systems Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) BAPI
1 12 (31.58%) IBM Integration Bus
1 12 (31.58%) JMS
1 12 (31.58%) Middleware
1 12 (31.58%) OAuth
1 12 (31.58%) REST
1 12 (31.58%) SAML
1 12 (31.58%) SOAP
2 1 (2.63%) JSON
2 1 (2.63%) PySpark
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (2.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (31.58%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 3 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) IoT
4 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (31.58%) API Management
1 12 (31.58%) Event-Driven
1 12 (31.58%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 12 (31.58%) High Availability
1 12 (31.58%) Migration
2 8 (21.05%) Agile
3 7 (18.42%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (15.79%) Asset Management
5 5 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) ITIL
6 4 (10.53%) Signal Processing
6 4 (10.53%) Storage Management
6 4 (10.53%) Test Planning
7 3 (7.89%) Scrum
7 3 (7.89%) Software Asset Management
7 3 (7.89%) Software Licensing
7 3 (7.89%) User Stories
7 3 (7.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) ABAP
2 4 (10.53%) Java
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) COBOL
5 1 (2.63%) JCL
5 1 (2.63%) Natural
5 1 (2.63%) Python
5 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (13.16%) Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (7.89%) IBM Certification
5 1 (2.63%) ACCA
5 1 (2.63%) CIMA
5 1 (2.63%) ICAEW
5 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.63%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (10.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.63%) Control-M
2 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) SAP
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
3 4 (10.53%) Cisco
3 4 (10.53%) Citrix
3 4 (10.53%) Meraki
3 4 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) SonicWALL
3 4 (10.53%) Veeam
3 4 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) BMC
4 1 (2.63%) Cognos
4 1 (2.63%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.63%) Planon
4 1 (2.63%) Talend