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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 161 174
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -48
Permanent jobs citing IBM 45 121 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.81% 1.21% 1.02%
As % of the Vendors category 1.84% 3.95% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 27 35 38
10th Percentile £50,250 £27,500 £27,250
25th Percentile £57,132 £40,000 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £45,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +61.11% -9.09% +5.32%
75th Percentile £75,000 £50,250 £76,563
90th Percentile £75,900 £62,000 £122,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £51,238 £65,000
% change year-on-year +36.62% -21.17% +12.07%

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 2,447 3,062 2,510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.78% 30.69% 43.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,560 1,985
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,119 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,089 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61,500 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IBM 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
East Midlands -30 24 £65,000 +44.44% 16
West Midlands +36 21 £72,500 +61.11% 31
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (28.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (2.22%) Maximo
2 1 (2.22%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) AWS
2 4 (8.89%) Azure
3 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) Serverless
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.22%) Datadog
4 1 (2.22%) IaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Kong
4 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.22%) PaaS
4 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.22%) SaaS
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Calico
1 1 (2.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) SAP HANA
2 1 (2.22%) DB2
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 16 (35.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 16 (35.56%) Public Sector
2 15 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Electronics
4 2 (4.44%) Finance
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Consultant
1 15 (33.33%) Integration Consultant
1 15 (33.33%) Oracle Consultant
1 15 (33.33%) Oracle Technical Consultant
1 15 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
2 13 (28.89%) Developer
2 13 (28.89%) SAP Developer
3 8 (17.78%) Integration Developer
4 5 (11.11%) ABAP Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
5 4 (8.89%) Administrator
6 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Requirements Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Senior
7 2 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.44%) Systems Manager
7 2 (4.44%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) Middleware
2 13 (28.89%) BAPI
2 13 (28.89%) IBM Integration Bus
2 13 (28.89%) JMS
2 13 (28.89%) OAuth
2 13 (28.89%) REST
2 13 (28.89%) SAML
2 13 (28.89%) SOAP
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) XML
3 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (35.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 15 (33.33%) e-Learning
3 13 (28.89%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
1 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (8.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (4.44%) AIX
4 1 (2.22%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) API Management
2 18 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 16 (35.56%) High Availability
3 16 (35.56%) Mentoring
4 15 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 15 (33.33%) Coaching
5 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven
5 14 (31.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 13 (28.89%) Migration
7 6 (13.33%) Agile
8 4 (8.89%) DevOps
8 4 (8.89%) Systems Engineering
8 4 (8.89%) Tech Ops
9 3 (6.67%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (6.67%) PRINCE2
9 3 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
10 2 (4.44%) Asset Management
10 2 (4.44%) ITIL
10 2 (4.44%) Project Management
10 2 (4.44%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.11%) ABAP
1 5 (11.11%) Bash
2 3 (6.67%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Korn
3 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.44%) SQL
4 1 (2.22%) Java
4 1 (2.22%) JCL
4 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) BPSS Clearance
1 4 (8.89%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
3 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (4.44%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
1 4 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.22%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.89%) Red Hat Satellite
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Grafana
3 2 (4.44%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.22%) Istio
4 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Red Hat
2 16 (35.56%) Oracle
3 15 (33.33%) SAP
4 4 (8.89%) VMware
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.22%) Broadcom
6 1 (2.22%) Cognos
6 1 (2.22%) Dell
6 1 (2.22%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (2.22%) Planon
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk