IBM Jobs in the Thames Valley

IBM
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 226 209
Rank change year-on-year +76 -17 +27
Permanent jobs citing IBM 29 17 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.85% 0.25% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 2.45% 0.65% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile - £41,250 £44,508
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76,250 £57,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 - £105,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.37% -1.82% -5.17%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,185 2,601 2,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 34.92% 38.69% 43.42%
Number of salaries quoted 592 1,827 1,469
10th Percentile £28,525 £28,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £49,976
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.96% -1.38%
75th Percentile £67,313 £58,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,250 £77,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the Thames Valley

IBM
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for IBM in the Thames Valley

IBM
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM in the Thames Valley

IBM
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 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
Berkshire +56 26 £65,000 +52.94% 7
Buckinghamshire +31 3 £60,000 +9.09% 3
IBM
South East

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) IIS
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.45%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.45%) DB2
2 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Eclipse
1 2 (6.90%) IntelliJ
1 2 (6.90%) Jasmine
1 2 (6.90%) JUnit
1 2 (6.90%) Karma Test Runner
1 2 (6.90%) Mockito
1 2 (6.90%) Protractor
2 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.45%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (72.41%) Finance
2 20 (68.97%) Law
3 3 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (82.76%) Lead
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
2 3 (10.34%) Java Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Team Leader
4 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Backend Developer
4 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Java Middleware Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Senior Middleware Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.90%) JPA
2 2 (6.90%) Middleware
2 2 (6.90%) React
3 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.45%) JSON
3 1 (3.45%) REST
3 1 (3.45%) Spring
3 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.90%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.45%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) AIX
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Roadmaps
2 20 (68.97%) Business Transformation
2 20 (68.97%) Data Architecture
2 20 (68.97%) Due Diligence
2 20 (68.97%) Matrix Organization
2 20 (68.97%) PLM
2 20 (68.97%) Portfolio Management
2 20 (68.97%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (68.97%) SAP Implementation
2 20 (68.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 20 (68.97%) Technical Leadership
2 20 (68.97%) Thought Leadership
3 4 (13.79%) Microservices
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL
5 2 (6.90%) Risk Management
5 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Groovy
3 1 (3.45%) Perl
3 1 (3.45%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Ansible
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Packer
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (72.41%) SAP
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat