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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 255 313
Rank change year-on-year +120 +58 +32
Permanent jobs citing IBM 797 788 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.16% 1.12% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 6.26% 3.13% 2.31%
Number of salaries quoted 547 328 246
10th Percentile £37,574 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +0.22% -0.21%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,433 £69,375
90th Percentile - £83,759 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -2.68%

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 12,724 25,146 26,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.55% 35.76% 42.35%
Number of salaries quoted 7,965 17,442 13,328
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +146 404 £65,000 +18.18% 84
South West +127 116 £45,000 -10.00% 38
North of England -44 97 £44,750 -31.15% 32
Midlands +18 60 £60,000 +33.33% 38
Wales +85 57 £62,000 +14.74% 2
Yorkshire +71 54 £42,550 -36.17% 15
Scotland +149 43 £40,101 -47.01% 26
North West -92 43 £44,750 -31.15% 16
East Midlands +10 36 £50,050 +11.22% 25
West Midlands +26 24 £60,000 +33.33% 13
East of England +28 20 £40,101 -23.62% 20
Northern Ireland +29 1 £50,000 +78.57% 5
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 9 (1.13%) nginx
2 7 (0.88%) Apache
2 7 (0.88%) Camunda
3 6 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.75%) Tomcat
4 5 (0.63%) Confluence
4 5 (0.63%) NetWeaver
5 4 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.50%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.38%) CICS
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 138 (17.31%) Simulink
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 138 (17.31%) Teamcenter
2 12 (1.51%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 8 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 8 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (1.00%) Oracle SCM
4 6 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.63%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
7 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.13%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 80 (10.04%) Azure
2 58 (7.28%) AWS
3 55 (6.90%) IBM Cloud
4 36 (4.52%) SaaS
5 24 (3.01%) OCI
5 24 (3.01%) PaaS
6 14 (1.76%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.25%) GitHub
9 9 (1.13%) IBM Watson
10 8 (1.00%) OpenShift
11 6 (0.75%) Apigee
11 6 (0.75%) IaaS
12 4 (0.50%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (0.50%) Amazon S3
12 4 (0.50%) CloudBees
12 4 (0.50%) GCP
12 4 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.00%) SAN
2 7 (0.88%) DNS
3 6 (0.75%) Multicast
3 6 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.50%) FTP
5 3 (0.38%) HTTP
5 3 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 3 (0.38%) LAN
5 3 (0.38%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (0.25%) SNA
6 2 (0.25%) SSH
6 2 (0.25%) SSL
6 2 (0.25%) VSAN
6 2 (0.25%) Wireless
7 1 (0.13%) GSM
7 1 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (3.26%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.89%) NoSQL
3 20 (2.51%) DB2
4 15 (1.88%) MongoDB
5 14 (1.76%) Power BI
6 12 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.25%) QlikView
8 9 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
8 9 (1.13%) Oracle Database
8 9 (1.13%) SAP HANA
9 7 (0.88%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (0.63%) SAP BW
10 5 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
11 4 (0.50%) OLAP
11 4 (0.50%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.50%) Tableau
12 3 (0.38%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 526 (66.00%) Rational DOORS
2 55 (6.90%) JIRA
3 21 (2.63%) JUnit
4 20 (2.51%) Eclipse
4 20 (2.51%) Git
4 20 (2.51%) IntelliJ
4 20 (2.51%) Jasmine
4 20 (2.51%) Karma Test Runner
4 20 (2.51%) Mockito
4 20 (2.51%) Protractor
5 15 (1.88%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.51%) Maven
7 11 (1.38%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.75%) JDeveloper
9 5 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.38%) Selenium
11 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.25%) Cucumber
General
1 411 (51.57%) Electronics
2 238 (29.86%) Social Skills
3 140 (17.57%) Aerospace
4 93 (11.67%) Finance
5 61 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 60 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 50 (6.27%) Banking
8 21 (2.63%) Law
9 20 (2.51%) Legal
10 15 (1.88%) Retail
11 14 (1.76%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.63%) Automotive
14 5 (0.63%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 2 (0.25%) Aviation
16 2 (0.25%) Organisational Skills
17 1 (0.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 415 (52.07%) Systems Engineer
2 203 (25.47%) Principal Engineer
2 203 (25.47%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 185 (23.21%) Senior
4 138 (17.31%) Junior
4 138 (17.31%) Junior Systems Engineer
5 130 (16.31%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 82 (10.29%) Architect
7 56 (7.03%) Systems Architect
8 38 (4.77%) Developer
9 35 (4.39%) Lead
10 27 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 22 (2.76%) Java Developer
12 19 (2.38%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (2.26%) Consultant
13 18 (2.26%) Oracle Consultant
13 18 (2.26%) SaaS Developer
14 17 (2.13%) Graduate
15 15 (1.88%) Backend Developer
16 13 (1.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.27%) React
2 27 (3.39%) AngularJS
3 23 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
4 20 (2.51%) Hibernate
4 20 (2.51%) JPA
5 12 (1.51%) XML
6 9 (1.13%) Web Services
7 8 (1.00%) REST
8 7 (0.88%) KeystoneJS
8 7 (0.88%) Node.js
8 7 (0.88%) Swagger
9 6 (0.75%) JSON
9 6 (0.75%) Middleware
9 6 (0.75%) React Native
9 6 (0.75%) SOAP
10 4 (0.50%) .NET
10 4 (0.50%) BAPI
10 4 (0.50%) IBM Integration Bus
10 4 (0.50%) ISPF
10 4 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 291 (36.51%) Algorithms
2 79 (9.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 63 (7.90%) Management Information System
4 56 (7.03%) Blockchain
5 47 (5.90%) e-Learning
6 17 (2.13%) Hackathon
6 17 (2.13%) Learning Management System
6 17 (2.13%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.63%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.25%) Replication
9 9 (1.13%) Robotics
9 9 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.13%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.88%) Cloud Native
11 6 (0.75%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.75%) DataPower
11 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (0.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.40%) Linux
2 14 (1.76%) zOS
3 12 (1.51%) Windows
4 10 (1.25%) AIX
4 10 (1.25%) Unix
5 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.88%) Android
6 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.75%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.25%) CentOS
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.13%) SUSE
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (65.87%) Systems Engineering
2 297 (37.26%) Technical Leadership
3 270 (33.88%) Signal Processing
4 233 (29.23%) Mentoring
5 185 (23.21%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
6 178 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
7 159 (19.95%) PLM
8 157 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (18.44%) Project Management
10 144 (18.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (18.07%) Test Planning
11 141 (17.69%) UML
12 140 (17.57%) Mathematics
13 138 (17.31%) Computer Science
13 138 (17.31%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 138 (17.31%) Physics
13 138 (17.31%) SysML
14 120 (15.06%) Agile
15 105 (13.17%) Requirements Management
16 100 (12.55%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 138 (17.31%) MATLAB
2 127 (15.93%) R
3 78 (9.79%) Java
4 48 (6.02%) SQL
5 47 (5.90%) Python
6 26 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.26%) C#
8 17 (2.13%) Kotlin
9 10 (1.25%) C
10 8 (1.00%) JCL
11 7 (0.88%) Lua
12 5 (0.63%) C++
12 5 (0.63%) Groovy
13 4 (0.50%) Perl
14 3 (0.38%) RPG
14 3 (0.38%) RPG IV
14 3 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.25%) AWK
15 2 (0.25%) Bash
15 2 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 465 (58.34%) BPSS Clearance
2 233 (29.23%) Degree
3 115 (14.43%) Chartered Engineer
4 34 (4.27%) Security Cleared
5 17 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 17 (2.13%) PhD
6 4 (0.50%) ACCA
6 4 (0.50%) CIMA
7 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.38%) OCP
7 3 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.38%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (40.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (0.88%) SLA
3 3 (0.38%) QA
4 2 (0.25%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.25%) ISO 26262
4 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.13%) GDPR
5 1 (0.13%) NCSC
5 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 37 (4.64%) Docker
2 12 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.38%) PowerHA
4 3 (0.38%) Time Sharing Option
4 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) KVM
5 2 (0.25%) Postfix
5 2 (0.25%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.13%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (1.76%) Terraform
2 13 (1.63%) Ansible
3 9 (1.13%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (0.63%) Grafana
5 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.38%) Argo
6 3 (0.38%) Istio
6 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.38%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.25%) CA Endevor
7 2 (0.25%) MAINVIEW
7 2 (0.25%) Nagios
7 2 (0.25%) Nessus
7 2 (0.25%) Packer
7 2 (0.25%) QRadar
7 2 (0.25%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
8 1 (0.13%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 72 (9.03%) Red Hat
2 70 (8.78%) Oracle
3 59 (7.40%) Microsoft
4 37 (4.64%) SAP
5 17 (2.13%) Google
6 14 (1.76%) Cisco
7 12 (1.51%) PeopleSoft
8 10 (1.25%) Databricks
9 6 (0.75%) Apple
9 6 (0.75%) Cognos
9 6 (0.75%) IBM Sterling
9 6 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.75%) SolarWinds
9 6 (0.75%) Veeam
10 5 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.63%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.50%) BMC
11 4 (0.50%) Dell
12 3 (0.38%) Hitachi