IBM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 287 298
Rank change year-on-year -162 +11 +83
Permanent jobs citing IBM 299 475 988
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.32% 1.07% 0.91%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 2.46% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 206 165 447
10th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,360 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £86,500 £83,759
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £66,367 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.59% +26.41% -4.55%

All Vendors
UK

IBM falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24,008 19,337 36,669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.68% 43.38% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14,017 10,468 25,097
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,188 £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the UK

IBM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the UK over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -156 277 £65,000 - 212
UK excluding London -151 212 £60,000 -9.59% 181
South East -51 114 £60,000 -7.69% 42
London -60 79 £80,000 +4.92% 69
Work from Home -49 73 £60,000 -15.01% 168
Midlands -33 34 £65,000 +8.33% 25
East of England -5 24 £65,000 +14.04% 24
West Midlands -16 22 £60,000 -17.24% 11
North of England -60 22 £50,000 -23.08% 32
Yorkshire -65 13 £79,200 +5.78% 14
Scotland +1 12 £75,900 +0.72% 19
East Midlands -43 12 £67,500 +12.50% 14
North West -6 9 £47,500 -9.52% 12
South West -78 8 £77,950 +8.28% 22
Wales -46 3 £66,300 -6.09% 10

IBM
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 11 (3.68%) Confluence
2 2 (0.67%) CICS
2 2 (0.67%) Gentran
2 2 (0.67%) JBoss
2 2 (0.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (0.33%) WildFly
Applications
1 28 (9.36%) CATIA
2 17 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 22 (7.36%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 14 (4.68%) Maximo
3 9 (3.01%) FLEXCUBE
3 9 (3.01%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (1.00%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.67%) Misys Equation
5 2 (0.67%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.33%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
6 1 (0.33%) HFM
6 1 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 42 (14.05%) Azure
2 16 (5.35%) AWS
3 8 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (2.68%) SaaS
3 8 (2.68%) Serverless
4 7 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (1.67%) Lucidchart
6 5 (1.67%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.34%) Cloudflare
7 4 (1.34%) GCP
8 2 (0.67%) Boomi
8 2 (0.67%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (0.67%) OCI
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.02%) Firewall
2 5 (1.67%) VPN
3 3 (1.00%) Network Security
4 2 (0.67%) SSL
5 1 (0.33%) DHCP
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) LAN
5 1 (0.33%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.33%) VLAN
5 1 (0.33%) VoIP
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
5 1 (0.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.03%) Db2
2 11 (3.68%) Oracle Database
3 10 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.34%) Tableau
5 6 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.67%) DTS
6 5 (1.67%) Power BI
7 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.00%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.67%) Easytrieve
9 2 (0.67%) OLAP
9 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 82 (27.42%) Rational DOORS
2 36 (12.04%) JIRA
3 13 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.34%) Git
5 7 (2.34%) Apache Continuum
5 7 (2.34%) GitLab
6 5 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.33%) ERwin
General
1 99 (33.11%) Finance
2 89 (29.77%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (14.72%) Electronics
5 40 (13.38%) Aerospace
6 29 (9.70%) Banking
7 18 (6.02%) Retail
8 12 (4.01%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.68%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.68%) Financial Institution
11 7 (2.34%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.01%) Legal
13 5 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.67%) Marketing
13 5 (1.67%) Publishing
14 4 (1.34%) Front Office
15 3 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (26.42%) Systems Engineer
2 57 (19.06%) Senior
3 55 (18.39%) Developer
4 51 (17.06%) Principal Engineer
4 51 (17.06%) Principal Systems Engineer
5 28 (9.36%) Analyst
6 26 (8.70%) Consultant
7 20 (6.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 18 (6.02%) RPG Developer
9 17 (5.69%) Senior Consultant
10 16 (5.35%) TM1 Developer
11 14 (4.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Systems Analyst
12 13 (4.35%) Applications Support
13 11 (3.68%) Analytics Developer
13 11 (3.68%) Applications Manager
13 11 (3.68%) Architect
13 11 (3.68%) Lead
13 11 (3.68%) Maximo Consultant
13 11 (3.68%) Senior Maximo Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.02%) Web Services
2 11 (3.68%) REST
2 11 (3.68%) XML
3 9 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (3.01%) Spring
3 9 (3.01%) Spring Boot
4 8 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (2.68%) Middleware
5 7 (2.34%) .NET
5 7 (2.34%) EDI
6 6 (2.01%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.01%) JMS
6 6 (2.01%) Kafka
7 5 (1.67%) JSON
7 5 (1.67%) Node.js
7 5 (1.67%) React
8 4 (1.34%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (1.34%) Java EE
8 4 (1.34%) JPA
8 4 (1.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.38%) iSeries
2 26 (8.70%) AS400
3 21 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 16 (5.35%) Algorithms
5 15 (5.02%) Data Centre
5 15 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (4.01%) Enterprise Storage
7 11 (3.68%) Replication
8 8 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.34%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.67%) EPoS
11 4 (1.34%) Acoustics
11 4 (1.34%) Augmented Reality
11 4 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.34%) PKI
12 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (1.00%) Equities
12 3 (1.00%) IBM Mainframe
13 2 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.03%) Linux
2 14 (4.68%) Unix
2 14 (4.68%) Windows
3 9 (3.01%) AIX
3 9 (3.01%) Oracle Linux
3 9 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
4 6 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.34%) MVS
5 4 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (25.42%) Systems Engineering
2 51 (17.06%) Agile
3 49 (16.39%) Test Planning
4 48 (16.05%) Decision-Making
5 46 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (13.04%) ITIL
7 37 (12.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 36 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (8.36%) Analytics
11 24 (8.03%) Requirements Management
11 24 (8.03%) Systems Thinking
12 23 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
13 21 (7.02%) Asset Management
13 21 (7.02%) Change Management
13 21 (7.02%) Mentoring
13 21 (7.02%) SDLC
14 20 (6.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (6.35%) Data Analysis
15 19 (6.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.72%) SQL
2 37 (12.37%) RPG
3 31 (10.37%) Java
4 23 (7.69%) Python
5 13 (4.35%) Bash
5 13 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 12 (4.01%) COBOL
7 9 (3.01%) Korn
7 9 (3.01%) MATLAB
7 9 (3.01%) Shell Script
8 7 (2.34%) RPG IV
9 6 (2.01%) C#
10 5 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.67%) RPG III
10 5 (1.67%) VB
10 5 (1.67%) VBA
10 5 (1.67%) VBScript
11 4 (1.34%) Groovy
11 4 (1.34%) RPG/400
12 3 (1.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 85 (28.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 58 (19.40%) Degree
3 26 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 20 (6.69%) SC Cleared
5 16 (5.35%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.34%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (0.67%) ACCA
7 2 (0.67%) CIMA
7 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.67%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.67%) HND
7 2 (0.67%) PhD
7 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.67%) PMP
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.37%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 12 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 11 (3.68%) QA
4 3 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.00%) GDPR
4 3 (1.00%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) COBIT
5 2 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) MiFID
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
5 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 27 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (7.02%) Hyper-V
3 11 (3.68%) Firmware
4 9 (3.01%) Oracle RAC
5 8 (2.68%) Active Directory
6 6 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (1.67%) Docker
8 4 (1.34%) KVM
9 2 (0.67%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.33%) ACF2
10 1 (0.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.33%) RACF
10 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (4.01%) SCCM
2 10 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.34%) Terraform
3 9 (3.01%) Data Guard
3 9 (3.01%) Nagios
3 9 (3.01%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (2.68%) Ansible
5 6 (2.01%) SCOM
6 5 (1.67%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 4 (1.34%) Graylog
7 4 (1.34%) Kibana
7 4 (1.34%) Packer
7 4 (1.34%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.34%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.33%) Netcool
8 1 (0.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
8 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (13.38%) Oracle
2 29 (9.70%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.70%) VMware
3 18 (6.02%) Cognos
4 17 (5.69%) HP
5 16 (5.35%) Veeam
6 15 (5.02%) SAP
7 13 (4.35%) EMC
8 11 (3.68%) Commvault
9 9 (3.01%) Dell
9 9 (3.01%) IBM Sterling
9 9 (3.01%) Workday
10 8 (2.68%) AppDynamics
11 6 (2.01%) McAfee
12 5 (1.67%) Adobe
12 5 (1.67%) Snow
13 4 (1.34%) Citrix
13 4 (1.34%) Google
13 4 (1.34%) Hyperion
13 4 (1.34%) webMethods