IBM Jobs in the South East

IBM
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 45 187 300
Rank change year-on-year +142 +113 -39
Permanent jobs citing IBM 467 229 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.97% 1.37% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 13.46% 3.50% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 348 32 46
10th Percentile £57,500 - £35,000
25th Percentile £62,000 £48,500 £38,140
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,600 £57,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - £59,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.77% -5.00% -

All Vendors
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,469 6,541 5,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 36.95% 39.00% 40.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 4,440 3,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,538 £34,719 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £60,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £80,000
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the South East

IBM
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM in the South East.

Salary trend for IBM in the South East

IBM
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM in the South East

IBM
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the South East 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
Isle of Wight - 335 £65,000 - 11
Hampshire -4 81 £40,101 -17.32% 27
Thames Valley +88 29 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Berkshire +53 26 £65,000 +52.94% 8
Middlesex - 9 - - 2
Kent +21 7 £40,101 -27.09% 1
Surrey +53 5 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Buckinghamshire +28 3 £60,000 +9.09% 5
Sussex - 1 - -
IBM
England

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (0.86%) IBM Domino
2 1 (0.21%) Apache
2 1 (0.21%) IIS
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 35 (7.49%) Simulink
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 35 (7.49%) Teamcenter
2 26 (5.57%) Oracle SCM
3 7 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 34 (7.28%) Azure
2 27 (5.78%) OCI
3 19 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.14%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.93%) IBM Watson
6 7 (1.50%) AWS
7 2 (0.43%) SaaS
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.21%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.21%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.21%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.14%) Power BI
1 10 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.93%) QlikView
3 7 (1.50%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (0.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.21%) DB2
5 1 (0.21%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 358 (76.66%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (0.64%) JIRA
3 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
3 2 (0.43%) IntelliJ
3 2 (0.43%) Jasmine
3 2 (0.43%) JUnit
3 2 (0.43%) Karma Test Runner
3 2 (0.43%) Mockito
3 2 (0.43%) Protractor
4 1 (0.21%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.21%) Git
4 1 (0.21%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 309 (66.17%) Electronics
2 107 (22.91%) Social Skills
3 36 (7.71%) Aerospace
4 31 (6.64%) Finance
5 28 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.28%) Law
7 15 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.36%) Retail
9 10 (2.14%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.14%) Telecoms
10 3 (0.64%) Automotive
11 2 (0.43%) Legal
12 1 (0.21%) Analytical Skills
12 1 (0.21%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.21%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 310 (66.38%) Systems Engineer
2 147 (31.48%) Principal Engineer
2 147 (31.48%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 128 (27.41%) Senior
4 126 (26.98%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 48 (10.28%) Architect
5 48 (10.28%) Systems Architect
6 35 (7.49%) Junior
6 35 (7.49%) Junior Systems Engineer
7 27 (5.78%) Consultant
7 27 (5.78%) Oracle Consultant
8 24 (5.14%) Lead
9 20 (4.28%) DevOps Engineer
10 19 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 19 (4.07%) Azure Engineer
10 19 (4.07%) Developer
11 16 (3.43%) Oracle Developer
12 12 (2.57%) Radar Engineer
13 9 (1.93%) Analytics Manager
13 9 (1.93%) Technology Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.43%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.43%) Hibernate
3 2 (0.43%) JPA
3 2 (0.43%) Middleware
3 2 (0.43%) React
3 2 (0.43%) REST
4 1 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.21%) JSON
4 1 (0.21%) Spring
4 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 275 (58.89%) Algorithms
2 56 (11.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 48 (10.28%) Management Information System
4 28 (6.00%) e-Learning
5 9 (1.93%) Blockchain
5 9 (1.93%) Robotics
6 7 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.64%) Data Centre
7 3 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.43%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.21%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.21%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.21%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.21%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (0.21%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.21%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.86%) Linux
2 1 (0.21%) AIX
2 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.21%) SUSE
2 1 (0.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (76.23%) Systems Engineering
2 293 (62.74%) Technical Leadership
3 273 (58.46%) Signal Processing
4 187 (40.04%) Mentoring
5 147 (31.48%) Test Planning
6 123 (26.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 56 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (11.78%) PLM
9 50 (10.71%) Requirements Management
10 48 (10.28%) Business Case
10 48 (10.28%) Configuration Management
10 48 (10.28%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
10 48 (10.28%) Customer Requirements
10 48 (10.28%) Systems Thinking
11 44 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (8.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 38 (8.14%) Coaching
13 37 (7.92%) Project Management
14 35 (7.49%) SysML
14 35 (7.49%) UML
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.55%) R
2 35 (7.49%) MATLAB
3 13 (2.78%) SQL
4 10 (2.14%) Python
5 7 (1.50%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.28%) Java
7 1 (0.21%) Groovy
7 1 (0.21%) Perl
7 1 (0.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 356 (76.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 83 (17.77%) Degree
3 48 (10.28%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.21%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (68.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 2 (0.43%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (0.43%) ISO 26262
3 1 (0.21%) QA
System Software
1 4 (0.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.21%) Ansible
1 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.21%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (0.21%) Packer
1 1 (0.21%) QRadar
1 1 (0.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (9.85%) Oracle
2 36 (7.71%) Red Hat
3 21 (4.50%) SAP
4 14 (3.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (1.93%) Databricks
6 2 (0.43%) Cisco
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe
7 1 (0.21%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.21%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.21%) Cognos
7 1 (0.21%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.21%) McAfee