IBM UrbanCode Job Trends

IBM UrbanCode
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IBM UrbanCode skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 638 845
Rank change year-on-year -54 +207 +11
Permanent jobs citing IBM UrbanCode 25 16 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.028% 0.037% 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 37
10th Percentile - £70,097 -
25th Percentile - £70,797 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,061 £83,577
Median % change year-on-year - -4.21% +6.95%
75th Percentile - £93,778 £91,934
90th Percentile - - £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary - £80,061 £83,577
% change year-on-year - -4.21% +40.40%

All Development Application Skills
UK

IBM UrbanCode falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,116 4,177 9,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.56% 9.72% 9.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,694 2,942 6,731
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,497 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%

IBM UrbanCode
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IBM UrbanCode job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM UrbanCode
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM UrbanCode

IBM UrbanCode
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 UrbanCode within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 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
England -37 25 - -
London - 16 - -
UK excluding London -61 9 - -
East of England - 7 - -
South East - 2 - -

IBM UrbanCode
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 25 (100.00%) Apache
1 25 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 25 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 13 (52.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
1 25 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 25 (100.00%) Impala
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 25 (100.00%) Parquet
1 25 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 25 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (100.00%) Git
General
1 25 (100.00%) Banking
1 25 (100.00%) Finance
2 24 (96.00%) Investment Banking
3 13 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (48.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Analyst
2 23 (92.00%) Transformation Analyst
3 22 (88.00%) Banking Analyst
4 13 (52.00%) Business Analyst
5 12 (48.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 12 (48.00%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (44.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Functional Analyst
7 2 (8.00%) Functional Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (100.00%) PySpark
2 13 (52.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Agile
1 25 (100.00%) AI
1 25 (100.00%) Analytics
1 25 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 25 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 25 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 25 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 25 (100.00%) ETL
1 25 (100.00%) Scrum
1 25 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 13 (52.00%) Attestation
2 13 (52.00%) Data Analysis
2 13 (52.00%) Data Analytics
2 13 (52.00%) Data Validation
2 13 (52.00%) Performance Tuning
2 13 (52.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 13 (52.00%) Runbook
2 13 (52.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 13 (52.00%) Validation
3 12 (48.00%) Decision Table
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) Python
1 25 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (48.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 12 (48.00%) GDPR
2 12 (48.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) Oracle
1 25 (100.00%) Red Hat