IBM Cloud Jobs

IBM Cloud Computing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IBM Cloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 678 514 936
Rank change year-on-year -164 +422 +197
Permanent jobs citing IBM Cloud 12 429 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.43% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.078% 1.21% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 26
10th Percentile £46,375 £60,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £75,219 £57,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £87,500 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +29.37% -3.38%
75th Percentile £62,500 £100,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £86,125 - £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £83,577 £67,634
% change year-on-year -40.17% +23.57% -3.38%

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 15,341 35,389 43,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.32% 35.71% 42.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10,892 26,740 28,532
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,788
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IBM Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IBM Cloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IBM Cloud.

Salary trend for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM Cloud over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM Cloud in the UK

IBM Cloud
Top 9 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 9 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
England -207 12 £55,000 -37.14% 25
Work from Home +133 7 £60,000 -31.43% 6
UK excluding London -147 7 £50,000 -40.17% 16
London +76 5 £60,000 -31.43% 10
Midlands -11 5 £50,000 - 11
West Midlands - 5 £50,000 -
North of England -65 2 £55,000 -
North West -100 1 £55,000 -
Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 -

IBM Cloud
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) LAN
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Service Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Technical Services Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) CCTV Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Security Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Security Solutions Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Service Security Manager
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (16.67%) CCTV
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Change Management
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Operations
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
1 5 (41.67%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (41.67%) Data Protection
1 5 (41.67%) Data Security
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) Escalation Management
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Tech Ops
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Network Design
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
2 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (16.67%) Customer Value Proposition
3 2 (16.67%) Security Management
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Value Proposition
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) SLA
2 3 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) IBM
2 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 5 (41.67%) LogicMonitor
3 5 (41.67%) SolarWinds
3 5 (41.67%) Veeam
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (16.67%) Google