IBM Watson
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IBM Watson skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 781 - 803
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Permanent jobs citing IBM Watson 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% - 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.004% - 0.008%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.86%
75th Percentile £48,750 - £45,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

IBM Watson 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 27,663 15,991 26,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.29% 31.94% 31.57%
Number of salaries quoted 18,551 10,956 18,412
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,959 £39,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

IBM Watson
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IBM Watson job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM Watson
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM Watson

IBM Watson
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM Watson within the UK over the 6 months to 27 August 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
North West - 1 £47,500 - 1
England - 1 £47,500 - 4
UK excluding London - 1 £47,500 - 1
North of England - 1 £47,500 - 1

IBM Watson
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support
1 1 (100.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) AIOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Arista
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) NetScout
1 1 (100.00%) SevOne
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware