IBM Job Trends in the North of England

IBM
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 252 176
Rank change year-on-year -59 -76 +106
Permanent jobs citing IBM 23 48 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.12% 0.59% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 1.42% 3.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 98
10th Percentile £20,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £69,199 £91,612 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £140,677 £83,759
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,658 3,372 5,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.59% 41.50% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,783 1,624 4,523
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,480 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £47,500 £45,096
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% +5.33% -9.81%
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,750 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.18% +10.00% -13.04%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the North of England

IBM
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in the North of England

IBM
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Yorkshire -67 12 £79,200 +9.34% 2
North West -19 11 £47,500 -9.52% 3
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (8.70%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (34.78%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 2 (8.70%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (8.70%) Infor LN
2 2 (8.70%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (21.74%) AWS
1 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (21.74%) Serverless
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (8.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Tableau
2 2 (8.70%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) OLAP
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) SAP HANA
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Rational DOORS
2 5 (21.74%) Git
2 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
3 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.04%) GitLab
3 3 (13.04%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Aerospace
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Developer
2 9 (39.13%) Senior
3 6 (26.09%) Analytics Developer
3 6 (26.09%) TM1 Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Java Developer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Senior TM1 Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Accountant
7 2 (8.70%) Backend Developer
7 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Principal Systems Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Accountant
7 2 (8.70%) SQL Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Java Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (21.74%) RabbitMQ
1 5 (21.74%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) JSON
2 3 (13.04%) YAML
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) J2EE
3 2 (8.70%) Java EE
3 2 (8.70%) JMS
3 2 (8.70%) JPA
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Agile
1 8 (34.78%) Analytics
2 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
2 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps
2 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
2 5 (21.74%) Microservices
3 4 (17.39%) SDLC
4 3 (13.04%) Auto-Scaling
4 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.04%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (13.04%) Secrets Management
4 3 (13.04%) Security Hardening
4 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (8.70%) Clean Code
5 2 (8.70%) Code Quality
5 2 (8.70%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Groovy
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) ACCA
3 4 (17.39%) CIMA
3 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) HND
4 2 (8.70%) ICAEW
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) SLA
3 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Ansible
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Packer
3 2 (8.70%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Cognos
2 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
3 4 (17.39%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Infor
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
4 2 (8.70%) Sage
5 1 (4.35%) VMware