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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 712 569 633
Rank change year-on-year -143 +64 +324
Permanent jobs citing IBM Cloud 1 66 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.004% 0.44% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 22
10th Percentile - £46,250 £51,600
25th Percentile £105,000 £47,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £52,500 £85,538
Median % change year-on-year +109.52% -38.62% +26.47%
75th Percentile £115,000 £73,125 £99,688
90th Percentile - £88,750 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £50,000 £71,788
% change year-on-year - -30.35% +6.14%

All Cloud Computing 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 26,299 15,136 33,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.94% 36.89% 36.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13,910 11,092 26,460
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -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
Top 2 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 7 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
London -12 1 £110,000 +25.71% 1
England -124 1 £110,000 +109.52% 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Risk Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Internal Audit
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
1 1 (100.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Alibaba
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SAP