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 30 May 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 134 234
Rank change year-on-year -137 +100 +47
Permanent jobs citing IBM 19 176 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 1.70% 0.82%
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 5.26% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 48 42
10th Percentile - £27,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £52,188 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £56,754 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -29.34% -3.40% +17.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,512 £70,000
90th Percentile - £83,759 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -8.33% -

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 2,872 3,346 3,502
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 36.80% 32.34% 46.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 2,455 1,821
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,813 £33,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -5.45% +5.76%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £80,000 £77,542
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -48 10 £52,500 -6.67% 53
Lancashire -66 8 £40,101 -48.67% 15
Cheshire -29 1 £76,500 +39.09% 38
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (36.84%) 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 7 (36.84%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.53%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) DB2
3 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (10.53%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) ClearCase
3 1 (5.26%) ClearQuest
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Aerospace
3 7 (36.84%) Electronics
4 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 3 (15.79%) Retail
6 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (10.53%) Automotive
6 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 1 (5.26%) Aviation
7 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Junior
2 7 (36.84%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Backend Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Backend Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Spring
2 2 (10.53%) Spring Boot
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (10.53%) Life Science
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 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
3 8 (42.11%) Project Management
4 7 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (36.84%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
4 7 (36.84%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) Physics
4 7 (36.84%) PLM
4 7 (36.84%) SysML
4 7 (36.84%) Systems Engineering
4 7 (36.84%) UML
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Analytics
6 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Unit Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
8 3 (15.79%) Data Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) MATLAB
2 6 (31.58%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Concur
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
3 2 (10.53%) Bloomberg
3 2 (10.53%) Hitachi
3 2 (10.53%) Moogsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Imperva