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 16 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
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 134 229
Rank change year-on-year 0 +95 -26
Permanent jobs citing IBM 28 30 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.53% 1.06% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 2.11% 2.88% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 23 8 13
10th Percentile - - £48,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,375 £76,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £66,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +12.73% -

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 1,330 1,041 2,616
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 25.06% 36.90% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 745 546 1,948
10th Percentile £30,200 £29,375 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -7.57%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
South East median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +12.77% -6.00%

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 16 April 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 16 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
Buckinghamshire -3 15 £40,000 -33.33%
Berkshire -7 13 £82,500 +26.92% 3
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 2 (7.14%) Gentran
2 1 (3.57%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (28.57%) Serverless
3 6 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (17.86%) Azure
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Boomi
7 1 (3.57%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.57%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
2 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) JIRA
3 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 4 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.71%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Finance
4 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Sales Representative
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Integration Consultant
3 4 (14.29%) webMethods Consultant
4 3 (10.71%) Backend Developer
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (7.14%) EDI Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Onboarding Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) OSS Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (32.14%) REST
2 8 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 6 (21.43%) JSON
4 5 (17.86%) Web Services
5 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 4 (14.29%) Java EE
5 4 (14.29%) JMS
5 4 (14.29%) JPA
5 4 (14.29%) React
5 4 (14.29%) Spring
5 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 4 (14.29%) YAML
6 3 (10.71%) EDI
6 3 (10.71%) RESTful
7 2 (7.14%) Middleware
7 2 (7.14%) XML
8 1 (3.57%) OAuth
8 1 (3.57%) SOAP
8 1 (3.57%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.14%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.57%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Microservices
3 7 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
6 4 (14.29%) BDD
6 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 4 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (14.29%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (14.29%) Kanban
6 4 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (14.29%) Secrets Management
6 4 (14.29%) Security Hardening
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
7 3 (10.71%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Java
2 6 (21.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) Groovy
3 4 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) C#
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
2 8 (28.57%) Terraform
3 4 (14.29%) Kibana
3 4 (14.29%) Packer
4 1 (3.57%) Netcool
4 1 (3.57%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) AppDynamics
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) webMethods
4 2 (7.14%) MuleSoft
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Blue Prism
5 1 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (3.57%) Epicor
5 1 (3.57%) IFS
5 1 (3.57%) Infor
5 1 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (3.57%) Jitterbit
5 1 (3.57%) Pega
5 1 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.57%) Software AG
5 1 (3.57%) Talend
5 1 (3.57%) TIBCO
5 1 (3.57%) UiPath
5 1 (3.57%) Workday