IBM Jobs 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 21 June 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
21 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 268 345
Rank change year-on-year +135 +77 -97
Permanent jobs citing IBM 946 767 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.37% 0.94% 0.87%
As % of the Vendors category 5.67% 2.92% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 609 300 208
10th Percentile £37,574 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.10% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £70,600 £65,000 £71,652
90th Percentile - £83,750 £83,842
UK median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% -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 16,688 26,292 22,562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 41.78% 32.15% 41.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,810 17,540 12,627
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,954 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,828 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -8.34% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,094 £60,367 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IBM in the UK excluding London

IBM
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 June 2025.

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 21 June 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 +154 581 £65,000 +23.81% 210
South West +107 76 £40,101 -21.76% 132
Wales +94 76 £65,000 +52.94% 18
North of England -82 69 £40,101 -31.74% 183
Midlands +28 62 £60,000 +33.33% 146
Yorkshire +73 50 £40,101 -35.84% 65
Scotland +149 47 £40,101 -47.01% 54
East Midlands -1 41 £40,101 -10.89% 83
East of England +25 27 £40,101 -23.62% 105
West Midlands +47 21 £72,500 +61.11% 63
North West -121 19 £40,101 -27.09% 110
Northern Ireland +43 8 £50,000 +78.57% 7
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (0.63%) Confluence
2 5 (0.53%) Apache
3 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.42%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.21%) CICS
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.11%) IIS
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 141 (14.90%) Simulink
2 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) CATIA
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 139 (14.69%) Teamcenter
2 31 (3.28%) Oracle SCM
3 14 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.63%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.21%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.21%) Maximo
7 1 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (7.93%) Azure
2 37 (3.91%) AWS
3 32 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (3.38%) OCI
4 12 (1.27%) SaaS
5 11 (1.16%) GitHub
6 10 (1.06%) GCP
7 9 (0.95%) Power Platform
8 7 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (0.74%) PaaS
9 6 (0.63%) Apigee
10 5 (0.53%) OpenShift
11 4 (0.42%) CloudBees
11 4 (0.42%) IBM Watson
12 3 (0.32%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 3 (0.32%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.32%) Serverless
13 1 (0.11%) IaaS
13 1 (0.11%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.85%) SAN
2 6 (0.63%) Multicast
3 4 (0.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.32%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.21%) FTP
5 2 (0.21%) HTTP
5 2 (0.21%) SNA
5 2 (0.21%) VSAN
6 1 (0.11%) Calico
6 1 (0.11%) GSM
6 1 (0.11%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.11%) LAN
6 1 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.90%) DB2
2 17 (1.80%) SQL Server
3 13 (1.37%) SAP HANA
4 12 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 9 (0.95%) Power BI
6 8 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
8 6 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.53%) QlikView
9 5 (0.53%) Tableau
10 4 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.42%) OLAP
10 4 (0.42%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 2 (0.21%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.11%) DataStage
13 1 (0.11%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 652 (68.92%) Rational DOORS
2 53 (5.60%) JIRA
3 14 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.37%) JUnit
5 11 (1.16%) Eclipse
5 11 (1.16%) IntelliJ
5 11 (1.16%) Jasmine
5 11 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
5 11 (1.16%) Mockito
5 11 (1.16%) Protractor
6 8 (0.85%) Git
7 4 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
7 4 (0.42%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.32%) Selenium
8 3 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.21%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.11%) GCC
10 1 (0.11%) GDB
General
1 566 (59.83%) Electronics
2 244 (25.79%) Social Skills
3 147 (15.54%) Aerospace
4 72 (7.61%) Finance
5 70 (7.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (5.92%) Public Sector
7 27 (2.85%) Banking
8 25 (2.64%) Law
9 18 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
9 18 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.59%) Retail
11 8 (0.85%) Automotive
12 4 (0.42%) Marketing
12 4 (0.42%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.32%) Legal
14 2 (0.21%) Aviation
14 2 (0.21%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.11%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 568 (60.04%) Systems Engineer
2 260 (27.48%) Principal Engineer
3 256 (27.06%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 238 (25.16%) Senior
5 195 (20.61%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 139 (14.69%) Junior
7 138 (14.59%) Junior Systems Engineer
8 57 (6.03%) Architect
8 57 (6.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 48 (5.07%) Consultant
10 47 (4.97%) Oracle Consultant
11 45 (4.76%) Systems Architect
12 43 (4.55%) Developer
13 38 (4.02%) Radar Engineer
14 32 (3.38%) Lead
15 26 (2.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 26 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
16 21 (2.22%) System Design Authority
17 16 (1.69%) Oracle Developer
17 16 (1.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.54%) React
2 17 (1.80%) AngularJS
3 13 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (1.27%) Middleware
5 11 (1.16%) Hibernate
5 11 (1.16%) JPA
5 11 (1.16%) REST
6 10 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.95%) .NET
8 8 (0.85%) BAPI
8 8 (0.85%) IBM Integration Bus
8 8 (0.85%) SOAP
9 7 (0.74%) JMS
9 7 (0.74%) OAuth
9 7 (0.74%) RESTful
9 7 (0.74%) SAML
10 6 (0.63%) React Native
10 6 (0.63%) Spring
10 6 (0.63%) Spring Boot
11 5 (0.53%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 434 (45.88%) Algorithms
2 115 (12.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (6.66%) e-Learning
4 59 (6.24%) Management Information System
5 13 (1.37%) Mainframe
6 9 (0.95%) Cloud Native
6 9 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (0.95%) Virtual Team
7 8 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 8 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (0.85%) Replication
8 7 (0.74%) Data Centre
8 7 (0.74%) Product Ownership
9 6 (0.63%) DataPower
10 5 (0.53%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (0.42%) AS400
11 4 (0.42%) Blockchain
11 4 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.42%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.75%) Linux
2 14 (1.48%) zOS
3 8 (0.85%) Windows
4 7 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.63%) Android
5 6 (0.63%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.63%) Windows 10
5 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.53%) AIX
7 4 (0.42%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 3 (0.32%) Unix
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (69.24%) Systems Engineering
2 466 (49.26%) Technical Leadership
3 423 (44.71%) Signal Processing
4 234 (24.74%) Test Planning
5 215 (22.73%) Mentoring
6 195 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 176 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 162 (17.12%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
9 159 (16.81%) PLM
10 153 (16.17%) Project Management
11 152 (16.07%) Computer Science
12 144 (15.22%) Mathematics
13 142 (15.01%) UML
14 139 (14.69%) Agile
14 139 (14.69%) SysML
15 138 (14.59%) Creative Problem-Solving
15 138 (14.59%) Physics
16 118 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 84 (8.88%) Artificial Intelligence
18 79 (8.35%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 139 (14.69%) MATLAB
2 101 (10.68%) R
3 47 (4.97%) Java
4 38 (4.02%) SQL
5 32 (3.38%) Python
6 8 (0.85%) JCL
6 8 (0.85%) TypeScript
7 7 (0.74%) C#
7 7 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 5 (0.53%) Bash
10 4 (0.42%) Groovy
10 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 3 (0.32%) C
11 3 (0.32%) C++
11 3 (0.32%) REXX
11 3 (0.32%) RPG
11 3 (0.32%) RPG IV
12 2 (0.21%) Korn
12 2 (0.21%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 630 (66.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 223 (23.57%) Degree
3 89 (9.41%) Chartered Engineer
4 8 (0.85%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.63%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.42%) ACCA
6 4 (0.42%) CIMA
7 3 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.32%) OCP
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.21%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.21%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.11%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (49.58%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.32%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.21%) QA
5 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.11%) GDPR
5 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.11%) NCSC
5 1 (0.11%) NIST
5 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (2.43%) Docker
2 6 (0.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 5 (0.53%) Time Sharing Option
3 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.32%) PowerHA
4 3 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) RACF
Systems Management
1 23 (2.43%) Terraform
2 16 (1.69%) Ansible
3 11 (1.16%) Grafana
4 8 (0.85%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.42%) Istio
5 4 (0.42%) Netcool
5 4 (0.42%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 4 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Satellite
5 4 (0.42%) Tivoli
6 3 (0.32%) Argo
6 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.21%) QRadar
7 2 (0.21%) Tivoli NetView
7 2 (0.21%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.11%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.11%) Nagios
8 1 (0.11%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 89 (9.41%) Red Hat
2 77 (8.14%) Oracle
3 42 (4.44%) SAP
4 34 (3.59%) Microsoft
5 14 (1.48%) Cisco
6 12 (1.27%) Splunk
7 7 (0.74%) Cognos
7 7 (0.74%) Dell
7 7 (0.74%) Dynatrace
7 7 (0.74%) IBM Sterling
8 6 (0.63%) AppDynamics
8 6 (0.63%) Apple
8 6 (0.63%) Broadcom
8 6 (0.63%) ServiceNow
8 6 (0.63%) VMware
9 5 (0.53%) Databricks
9 5 (0.53%) HP
10 4 (0.42%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.32%) Concur
11 3 (0.32%) MuleSoft