IBM Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 248 261
Rank change year-on-year -129 +13 +43
Permanent jobs citing IBM 198 277 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 1.05% 1.06%
As % of the Vendors category 1.29% 2.77% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 121 143 334
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,350 £29,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +0.22%
75th Percentile £75,900 £70,600 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,360 £83,759
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,384 10,005 24,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.68% 37.90% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,851 6,428 17,617
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IBM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IBM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East -44 88 £60,000 -3.23% 17
East of England -2 31 £65,000 +14.29% 8
Midlands -57 30 £65,000 +8.33% 9
North of England -102 25 £50,000 -4.76% 11
West Midlands -24 22 £70,000 +16.67% 6
Scotland -23 14 £75,900 +14.36% 4
Yorkshire -81 14 £75,900 +26.50% 4
North West -43 11 £47,500 -9.52% 6
South West -72 11 £55,200 -23.32% 16
East Midlands -52 8 £65,000 +8.33% 3
Wales -32 4 £32,500 -47.58%
IBM
UK

IBM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.52%) FileNet
2 2 (1.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.01%) Gentran
2 2 (1.01%) JBoss
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) CICS
3 1 (0.51%) SAS
3 1 (0.51%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (13.13%) CATIA
2 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (8.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 10 (5.05%) Maximo
3 4 (2.02%) Markit EDM
4 3 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.01%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (1.01%) Infor CloudSuite
5 2 (1.01%) Infor LN
5 2 (1.01%) Q-Pulse
5 2 (1.01%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.51%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 1 (0.51%) Cognos Controller
6 1 (0.51%) HFM
6 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.51%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (11.62%) Azure
2 9 (4.55%) AWS
3 8 (4.04%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (4.04%) Serverless
4 7 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.02%) dbt
7 4 (2.02%) SaaS
7 4 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.52%) Boomi
9 2 (1.01%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.51%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.51%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.55%) Firewall
2 4 (2.02%) SNA
3 3 (1.52%) Ethernet
3 3 (1.52%) InfiniBand
4 2 (1.01%) LAN
4 2 (1.01%) MPLS
4 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.01%) SSL
4 2 (1.01%) WAN
5 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.53%) DB2
2 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.02%) Metadata
3 4 (2.02%) Power BI
3 4 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.52%) Tableau
5 2 (1.01%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.01%) Easytrieve
5 2 (1.01%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (1.01%) OLAP
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.01%) Parquet
6 1 (0.51%) Adabas
6 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.51%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 83 (41.92%) Rational DOORS
2 37 (18.69%) JIRA
3 12 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.56%) Git
5 7 (3.54%) GitLab
6 5 (2.53%) Apache Continuum
6 5 (2.53%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.51%) ERwin
9 1 (0.51%) JMeter
9 1 (0.51%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.51%) Selenium
9 1 (0.51%) Zephyr
General
1 56 (28.28%) Social Skills
2 54 (27.27%) Finance
3 36 (18.18%) Electronics
4 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (9.60%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.53%) Retail
8 4 (2.02%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Publishing
11 1 (0.51%) Law
11 1 (0.51%) Legal
11 1 (0.51%) Marketing
11 1 (0.51%) Retail Finance
11 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 70 (35.35%) Systems Engineer
2 51 (25.76%) Principal Engineer
2 51 (25.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 27 (13.64%) Senior
4 25 (12.63%) Developer
5 17 (8.59%) Analyst
6 13 (6.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 9 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (4.55%) Sales Representative
8 8 (4.04%) Consultant
9 7 (3.54%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.54%) TM1 Developer
10 6 (3.03%) Requirements Manager
10 6 (3.03%) Systems Manager
11 5 (2.53%) Architect
11 5 (2.53%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.53%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Linux Engineer
11 5 (2.53%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.06%) REST
2 8 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
3 7 (3.54%) JMS
3 7 (3.54%) JSON
4 6 (3.03%) Middleware
5 5 (2.53%) EDI
5 5 (2.53%) OAuth
5 5 (2.53%) Web Services
6 4 (2.02%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.02%) Java EE
6 4 (2.02%) JPA
6 4 (2.02%) React
6 4 (2.02%) SOAP
6 4 (2.02%) Spring
6 4 (2.02%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.02%) YAML
7 3 (1.52%) RESTful
7 3 (1.52%) SAML
7 3 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.61%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.57%) iSeries
3 11 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.54%) Enterprise Storage
5 7 (3.54%) Replication
6 6 (3.03%) Acoustics
6 6 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
7 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.02%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.52%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.01%) e-Learning
10 2 (1.01%) IBM Mainframe
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Licensing
10 2 (1.01%) NHS
10 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.01%) Oracle Licensing
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.10%) Windows
2 11 (5.56%) Linux
3 8 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (3.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.52%) zOS
7 1 (0.51%) AIX
7 1 (0.51%) Unix
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.51%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.89%) Systems Engineering
2 50 (25.25%) Agile
3 42 (21.21%) Test Planning
4 31 (15.66%) Technical Leadership
5 30 (15.15%) Requirements Management
6 27 (13.64%) Decision-Making
7 26 (13.13%) Waterfall
8 25 (12.63%) Systems Thinking
9 21 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (10.10%) Analytics
10 20 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (9.09%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.08%) Data Analysis
12 16 (8.08%) DevOps
13 15 (7.58%) Asset Management
14 14 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (7.07%) Signal Processing
14 14 (7.07%) Visualisation
15 13 (6.57%) Validation
16 12 (6.06%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (11.62%) SQL
2 18 (9.09%) Python
3 14 (7.07%) Java
4 10 (5.05%) MATLAB
5 6 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.02%) Groovy
6 4 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.52%) Bash
7 3 (1.52%) COBOL
7 3 (1.52%) JCL
8 2 (1.01%) Assembly Language
8 2 (1.01%) Perl
8 2 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (0.51%) C#
9 1 (0.51%) C++
9 1 (0.51%) Natural
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (42.93%) BPSS Clearance
2 44 (22.22%) Degree
3 16 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.03%) ACCA
5 6 (3.03%) CIMA
6 5 (2.53%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.52%) ICAEW
7 3 (1.52%) RHCE
8 2 (1.01%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.01%) HND
8 2 (1.01%) IBM Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) CISM
9 1 (0.51%) CISSP
9 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (23.74%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 19 (9.60%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 6 (3.03%) QA
4 5 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.02%) SLA
6 2 (1.01%) GDPR
7 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (7.58%) Active Directory
2 14 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.54%) Firmware
5 6 (3.03%) Docker
6 5 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.52%) Lustre
7 3 (1.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 2 (1.01%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.01%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (6.06%) Ansible
2 11 (5.56%) Terraform
3 9 (4.55%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.53%) SCCM
4 5 (2.53%) SCOM
5 4 (2.02%) Kibana
5 4 (2.02%) Packer
5 4 (2.02%) Tivoli Identity Manager
6 2 (1.01%) Control-M
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.51%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.51%) Netcool
7 1 (0.51%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 28 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.59%) Oracle
3 15 (7.58%) VMware
4 13 (6.57%) Cognos
4 13 (6.57%) SAP
5 12 (6.06%) HP
6 10 (5.05%) EMC
7 9 (4.55%) Veeam
8 8 (4.04%) AppDynamics
9 7 (3.54%) Commvault
10 6 (3.03%) Dell
11 5 (2.53%) McAfee
12 4 (2.02%) Ab Initio
12 4 (2.02%) Hyperion
12 4 (2.02%) Sage
12 4 (2.02%) webMethods
12 4 (2.02%) Workday
13 3 (1.52%) Anaplan
13 3 (1.52%) Mellanox
13 3 (1.52%) Talend