IBM Cloud Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Cloud Computing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 437 542
Rank change year-on-year -100 +105 +249
Permanent jobs citing IBM Cloud 1 175 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.003% 0.36% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.011% 1.27% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 21
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile - - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.70%
75th Percentile - - £82,500
90th Percentile - - £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £87,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +34.62% -10.34%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

IBM Cloud falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,279 13,760 12,697
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.17% 27.97% 39.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,247 7,748 10,570
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IBM Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM Cloud
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Cloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
South East -30 1 £35,000 - 1
IBM Cloud
UK

IBM Cloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Storwize
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM