IBM Job Trends in the South West

IBM
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 11 April 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
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 119 202
Rank change year-on-year -78 +83 -34
Permanent jobs citing IBM 10 38 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 1.44% 0.94%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 4.41% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 52
10th Percentile - £45,000 £42,014
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £71,991 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.32% +43.98% -14.89%
75th Percentile £75,900 £73,886 £57,000
90th Percentile £78,360 - £64,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +5.26% -0.87%

All Vendors
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,596 862 2,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 22.50% 32.76% 32.91%
Number of salaries quoted 719 593 2,271
10th Percentile £27,375 £28,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,507 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -0.50% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59,037 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,433
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -12.28%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the South West

IBM
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the South West over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in the South West

IBM
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 April 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
Somerset -21 3 £75,900 +33.16%
Wiltshire - 3 £45,000 - 2
Bristol -28 2 £80,000 +11.13% 6
Dorset -27 1 - - 2
Devon - 1 £55,200 -
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
2 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JWT
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth
1 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (10.00%) DataPower
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) Budgeting
3 2 (20.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Requirements Management
3 2 (20.00%) Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (10.00%) RBAC
4 1 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Python
1 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (20.00%) ACCA
2 2 (20.00%) CIMA
3 1 (10.00%) CISM
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) BMC
2 1 (10.00%) Talend