IBM Jobs in the North West

IBM
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 132 220
Rank change year-on-year -135 +88 -7
Permanent jobs citing IBM 19 178 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 1.72% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 5.48% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 13 41 44
10th Percentile £31,315 £27,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £40,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.09% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £45,750 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £83,759 £76,875
England median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -8.33% +3.66%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,111 3,246 2,832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 40.32% 31.42% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,600 2,254 1,791
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £34,750 £39,272
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,625 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the North West

IBM
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM in the North West.

Salary trend for IBM in the North West

IBM
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the North West over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM in the North West

IBM
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the North West region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Manchester -60 10 £46,250 -15.91% 8
Lancashire -58 6 £40,101 -29.65% 13
Cheshire -23 3 £30,500 -44.55% 3
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (26.32%) Simulink
2 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
1 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (15.79%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (15.79%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) ClearCase
3 1 (5.26%) ClearQuest
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Aerospace
4 5 (26.32%) Electronics
5 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.79%) Banking
6 2 (10.53%) Retail
7 1 (5.26%) Aviation
7 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Junior
2 5 (26.32%) Junior Systems Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Backend Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Backend Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Break Fix Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Field Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
1 3 (15.79%) Spring
1 3 (15.79%) Spring Boot
1 3 (15.79%) Web Services
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.53%) Driving Licence
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Computer Science
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) Project Management
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Mathematics
3 5 (26.32%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) Physics
3 5 (26.32%) PLM
3 5 (26.32%) SysML
3 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (26.32%) UML
3 5 (26.32%) Unit Testing
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) SDLC
5 2 (10.53%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (10.53%) Hardware Maintenance
5 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) MATLAB
2 3 (15.79%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Splunk
2 3 (15.79%) AppDynamics
2 3 (15.79%) Bloomberg
2 3 (15.79%) Moogsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Concur
3 2 (10.53%) Dell
3 2 (10.53%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Imperva
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft