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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 129 234
Rank change year-on-year -142 +105 +46
Permanent jobs citing IBM 18 182 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.23% 1.85% 0.83%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 5.59% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12 52 45
10th Percentile - £28,964 £46,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,300 £58,750 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +7.05% +9.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £74,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £57,125 £83,759 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -

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 2,769 3,253 3,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.68% 33.04% 45.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 2,406 1,822
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,625 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,943 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £80,000 £77,697
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%

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 14 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 14 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
Lancashire -64 10 £40,101 -48.67% 4
Manchester -61 8 £52,500 -19.23% 13
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 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Simulink
2 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Teamcenter
2 2 (11.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) FTP
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (11.11%) HTTPS
2 2 (11.11%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (11.11%) SSH
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) LAN
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) DB2
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (5.56%) ClearCase
2 1 (5.56%) ClearQuest
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Aerospace
3 7 (38.89%) Electronics
4 6 (33.33%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
6 3 (16.67%) Banking
6 3 (16.67%) Retail
7 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (11.11%) Automotive
8 1 (5.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Junior
2 7 (38.89%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Financials Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Financial Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Oracle Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) EDI
2 2 (11.11%) LAMP
2 2 (11.11%) Loki
2 2 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Life Science
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) CCTV
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) AIX
2 2 (11.11%) CentOS
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (55.56%) Project Management
3 9 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
4 7 (38.89%) Creative Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Mathematics
4 7 (38.89%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Physics
4 7 (38.89%) PLM
4 7 (38.89%) SysML
4 7 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) UML
5 6 (33.33%) Analytics
6 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
7 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 2 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) MATLAB
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) AWK
4 2 (11.11%) C
4 2 (11.11%) C++
4 2 (11.11%) Korn
4 2 (11.11%) Perl
4 2 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) KVM
1 2 (11.11%) Postfix
1 2 (11.11%) Sendmail
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Grafana
1 2 (11.11%) Nagios
1 2 (11.11%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Concur
3 2 (11.11%) Hitachi
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 2 (11.11%) Tenable
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Imperva
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) VMware