IBM Cloud Job Trends

IBM Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IBM Cloud skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 652 716
Rank change year-on-year -3 +64 +367
Permanent jobs citing IBM Cloud 7 109 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.16% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.044% 0.49% 0.086%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 20
10th Percentile £46,250 - £52,400
25th Percentile £61,250 £86,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £87,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +34.62% -6.40%
75th Percentile £77,500 £88,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £90,625 - £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -14.75%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,977 22,083 23,235
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.98% 32.45% 42.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,782 13,390 19,459
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,758
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IBM Cloud job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM Cloud
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM Cloud over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Top 5 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 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
England -18 7 £75,000 -14.29% 4
London +52 6 £75,000 -14.29% 1
Work from Home +50 4 £75,000 -14.29% 3
South East +11 1 £35,000 -
UK excluding London -29 1 £35,000 - 2

IBM Cloud
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Security Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Insurance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Storwize
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (57.14%) SIEM
2 4 (57.14%) Zero Trust
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Business Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
3 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Security Management
3 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) IT Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Key Management
4 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Management
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) MCP
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
1 4 (57.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Nessus
2 3 (42.86%) Proxmox
3 1 (14.29%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft