IBM Job Trends 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 20 September 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
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 182 185
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -19
Permanent jobs citing IBM 23 19 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.31% 0.49% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.17% 0.96%
Number of salaries quoted 19 8 7
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,000 £48,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £77,500 £57,854
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,250 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +27.84% -11.82%

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 1,838 1,618 1,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.04% 42.10% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 656 771
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,500 £31,125
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,000 £36,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.25% -8.57%
75th Percentile £71,535 £66,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -3.85%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IBM
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

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 20 September 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
Berkshire +11 12 £82,500 +26.92% 7
Buckinghamshire +4 11 £60,000 +33.33% 2
IBM
South East

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 2 (8.70%) Gentran
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Serverless
3 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 4 (17.39%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (17.39%) Cloudflare
4 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
1 4 (17.39%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) JIRA
2 8 (34.78%) Git
2 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) Cucumber
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
4 3 (13.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
1 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Integration Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Security Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Security Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) webMethods Consultant
4 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (8.70%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (8.70%) EDI Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Onboarding Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Sales Representative
6 1 (4.35%) IBM Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (34.78%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (34.78%) REST
1 8 (34.78%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) JSON
3 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
3 4 (17.39%) Jakarta EE
3 4 (17.39%) JMS
3 4 (17.39%) JPA
3 4 (17.39%) React
3 4 (17.39%) Spring
3 4 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 4 (17.39%) YAML
4 3 (13.04%) EDI
5 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 1 (4.35%) OpenID
6 1 (4.35%) XML
6 1 (4.35%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (17.39%) PKI
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.35%) AS400
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 4 (17.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
2 8 (34.78%) Microservices
3 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
5 4 (17.39%) Auto-Scaling
5 4 (17.39%) BDD
5 4 (17.39%) Design Patterns
5 4 (17.39%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (17.39%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 4 (17.39%) Kanban
5 4 (17.39%) Scrum
5 4 (17.39%) Secrets Management
5 4 (17.39%) Security Hardening
5 4 (17.39%) SIEM
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) Bash
2 4 (17.39%) Groovy
2 4 (17.39%) PL/SQL
2 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Perl
4 1 (4.35%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 8 (34.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
2 4 (17.39%) KVM
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Ansible
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Graylog
2 4 (17.39%) Kibana
2 4 (17.39%) Packer
2 4 (17.39%) Proxmox
2 4 (17.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) AppDynamics
2 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 4 (17.39%) Veeam
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
2 4 (17.39%) webMethods
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.35%) Thales