IBM Certification Job Trends

IBM Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 663 750 727
Rank change year-on-year +87 -23 +386
Permanent jobs citing IBM Certification 3 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.018% 0.025% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile - £50,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.23% +160.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,625 £67,500
90th Percentile - £56,750 £69,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +160.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,590 19,627 16,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 29.15% 31.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,715 7,999 11,378
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,227 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +2.68%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IBM Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM Certification
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 9 November 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
England +86 3 £60,000 +14.29% 7
UK excluding London +79 2 £60,000 - 5
Work from Home +72 2 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Midlands +52 2 £60,000 - 2
West Midlands +39 2 £60,000 - 2
London +62 1 - - 4

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Maximo Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DB2 Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) DB2 DBA
2 1 (33.33%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) AIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM