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 23 October 2024, 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
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 402 296
Rank change year-on-year +33 -106 +90
Permanent jobs citing IBM 506 426 1,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.72% 1.29%
As % of the Vendors category 2.07% 1.71% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 240 295 721
10th Percentile £37,375 £40,000 £31,275
25th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,238 £65,000 £56,407
Median % change year-on-year -21.17% +15.23% -1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £77,607 £76,385
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,934 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,250 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.23% +18.18% +12.47%

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 24,446 24,905 55,942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 41.89% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12,032 17,966 30,925
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £56,392 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -0.19% +2.73%
75th Percentile £76,000 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,975 £91,250 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for IBM in the UK

IBM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for IBM in the UK

IBM
Top 17 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 23 October 2024. 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 +33 469 £51,238 -21.17% 183
UK excluding London +44 366 £49,250 -24.23% 122
Work from Home -9 134 £55,000 -15.84% 197
London +5 130 £55,000 -15.38% 69
North of England +9 113 £42,500 -34.68% 47
South East +40 106 £48,500 -11.82% 40
North West +34 98 £40,101 -38.64% 38
South West +11 51 £55,000 -15.84% 13
Midlands -22 48 £52,000 -4.59% 11
West Midlands -36 28 £52,000 +0.97% 9
Scotland 0 26 £40,101 -40.50% 1
East of England -43 24 £47,500 -37.70% 10
East Midlands -16 20 - - 2
Yorkshire +16 14 £51,250 -21.23% 9
Wales +4 2 £61,849 +23.70% 3
North East -30 2 £50,500 +80.36%
Northern Ireland +27 1 £28,000 -62.67%

IBM
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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.57%) ArcGIS
3 12 (2.37%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.99%) SAS
5 4 (0.79%) CICS
5 4 (0.79%) CMS
5 4 (0.79%) Confluence
5 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.59%) IBM Notes
7 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 42 (8.30%) Simulink
2 22 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.40%) CATIA
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (7.31%) Teamcenter
2 27 (5.34%) Maximo
3 20 (3.95%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 19 (3.75%) Postilion
5 5 (0.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.59%) Cognos Business Intelligence
6 3 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.59%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.40%) BPCS
7 2 (0.40%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.20%) Infor M3
8 1 (0.20%) Summit
8 1 (0.20%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 152 (30.04%) AWS
2 125 (24.70%) IBM Cloud
3 109 (21.54%) Azure
4 70 (13.83%) Amazon EKS
4 70 (13.83%) Amazon S3
5 58 (11.46%) Amazon ECR
5 58 (11.46%) OCI
5 58 (11.46%) Route 53
6 44 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (5.34%) Serverless
8 22 (4.35%) GCP
9 21 (4.15%) Power Platform
10 16 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
11 15 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (2.77%) SaaS
13 12 (2.37%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.37%) Azure Functions
13 12 (2.37%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.55%) SAN
2 19 (3.75%) ATM
2 19 (3.75%) DNS
3 14 (2.77%) Internet
4 10 (1.98%) Network Security
5 7 (1.38%) Firewall
5 7 (1.38%) FTP
6 6 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (0.79%) VLAN
8 3 (0.59%) Broadband
8 3 (0.59%) SDH
8 3 (0.59%) Softphone
8 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.40%) Wireless
10 1 (0.20%) HTTP
10 1 (0.20%) SSL
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
1 58 (11.46%) DB2
2 44 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 40 (7.91%) SQL Server
4 36 (7.11%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.95%) Power BI
6 15 (2.96%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.58%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.19%) Big Data
10 4 (0.79%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.79%) QlikView
10 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.59%) Adabas
11 3 (0.59%) MySQL
11 3 (0.59%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.59%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.40%) OLAP
12 2 (0.40%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 53 (10.47%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (3.95%) JIRA
3 17 (3.36%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.77%) Git
5 12 (2.37%) GitLab
6 11 (2.17%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.78%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.58%) Visual Studio Code
9 6 (1.19%) IntelliJ
9 6 (1.19%) JUnit
9 6 (1.19%) Maven
9 6 (1.19%) Mockito
10 5 (0.99%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.79%) Rational Functional Tester
11 4 (0.79%) Rational Rhapsody
11 4 (0.79%) Selenium
12 2 (0.40%) JMeter
12 2 (0.40%) LabVIEW
13 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 144 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 129 (25.49%) Public Sector
3 92 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (17.39%) Finance
5 64 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (9.49%) Aerospace
7 39 (7.71%) Electronics
8 30 (5.93%) Banking
9 26 (5.14%) Retail
10 14 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.57%) Back Office
12 8 (1.58%) Military
12 8 (1.58%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.38%) Law
13 7 (1.38%) Legal
14 5 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
16 3 (0.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 93 (18.38%) Senior
2 63 (12.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (11.26%) Developer
4 50 (9.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 49 (9.68%) Senior DevOps
6 45 (8.89%) Systems Engineer
7 43 (8.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 42 (8.30%) Architect
9 41 (8.10%) Analyst
10 37 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (5.93%) Administrator
12 28 (5.53%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (5.34%) Junior
13 27 (5.34%) Junior Systems Engineer
14 20 (3.95%) Consultant
15 19 (3.75%) Lead
15 19 (3.75%) Mainframe Architect
15 19 (3.75%) Payments Architect
15 19 (3.75%) Payments Solutions Architect
15 19 (3.75%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (14.43%) HTML
2 65 (12.85%) CSS
3 63 (12.45%) React
4 55 (10.87%) .NET
5 44 (8.70%) Web Services
6 43 (8.50%) REST
7 36 (7.11%) AngularJS
7 36 (7.11%) ASP.NET
7 36 (7.11%) ASP.NET Core
7 36 (7.11%) Backbone.js
7 36 (7.11%) Ember.js
7 36 (7.11%) jQuery
7 36 (7.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 36 (7.11%) Vue
8 22 (4.35%) Node.js
9 14 (2.77%) Spring
10 11 (2.17%) ADO
11 8 (1.58%) EDI
11 8 (1.58%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 122 (24.11%) Blockchain
2 120 (23.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (16.60%) e-Learning
4 55 (10.87%) Algorithms
5 50 (9.88%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (7.11%) Data Structures
7 35 (6.92%) Mainframe
8 26 (5.14%) IBM Mainframe
9 24 (4.74%) iSeries
10 21 (4.15%) AS400
10 21 (4.15%) Management Information System
11 16 (3.16%) Driving Licence
12 13 (2.57%) Data Centre
13 12 (2.37%) EPoS
13 12 (2.37%) IoT
14 11 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.78%) Clustering
16 8 (1.58%) Cyber Defence
17 7 (1.38%) PKI
17 7 (1.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (24.51%) Windows
2 113 (22.33%) Linux
3 37 (7.31%) Android
4 36 (7.11%) Apple iOS
5 32 (6.32%) Windows Server
6 25 (4.94%) zOS
7 20 (3.95%) Unix
8 15 (2.96%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (2.37%) AIX
10 11 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (1.78%) Solaris
12 8 (1.58%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (1.58%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.79%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.59%) VMS
15 2 (0.40%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.20%) HPUX
16 1 (0.20%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (31.23%) Agile
2 138 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
3 128 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
4 105 (20.75%) Mentoring
5 97 (19.17%) DevOps
6 95 (18.77%) Coaching
7 71 (14.03%) Test Automation
8 69 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 65 (12.85%) Full-Stack Development
10 63 (12.45%) OO
11 59 (11.66%) Containerisation
11 59 (11.66%) Observability
12 58 (11.46%) Secrets Management
13 53 (10.47%) Asset Management
13 53 (10.47%) Computer Science
14 52 (10.28%) Systems Engineering
15 51 (10.08%) Project Management
16 48 (9.49%) UML
17 47 (9.29%) Mathematics
18 44 (8.70%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 87 (17.19%) SQL
2 73 (14.43%) JavaScript
3 68 (13.44%) Java
4 65 (12.85%) C#
5 43 (8.50%) Python
6 42 (8.30%) MATLAB
7 25 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 18 (3.56%) C++
9 17 (3.36%) RPG
10 15 (2.96%) PowerShell
10 15 (2.96%) RPG IV
11 14 (2.77%) Bash
11 14 (2.77%) JCL
12 12 (2.37%) C
13 10 (1.98%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.78%) Fortran
14 9 (1.78%) REXX
15 7 (1.38%) ActionScript
15 7 (1.38%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 81 (16.01%) Degree
2 63 (12.45%) Security Cleared
3 56 (11.07%) SC Cleared
4 21 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (2.37%) MCSA
7 11 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.17%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.78%) ACCA
9 9 (1.78%) CIMA
9 9 (1.78%) PhD
10 8 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (1.19%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (0.99%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.99%) CISSP
12 5 (0.99%) IBM Certification
13 4 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.79%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.32%) SLA
2 8 (1.58%) QA
2 8 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.19%) GDPR
5 5 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.79%) ISO 8583
6 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) PMO
8 2 (0.40%) COBIT
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 26262
8 2 (0.40%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 60 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (9.29%) Active Directory
3 30 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.96%) Firmware
5 13 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.78%) Docker
7 8 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (1.38%) OpenSSH
8 7 (1.38%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (1.38%) vSphere
8 7 (1.38%) XenApp
9 4 (0.79%) LXC
9 4 (0.79%) Squid
10 3 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.40%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.20%) ACF2
12 1 (0.20%) RACF
Systems Management
1 69 (13.64%) Terraform
2 68 (13.44%) Kubernetes
3 63 (12.45%) Prometheus
4 22 (4.35%) Ansible
5 21 (4.15%) QRadar
6 14 (2.77%) ZABBIX
7 13 (2.57%) SCOM
8 11 (2.17%) SCCM
9 7 (1.38%) IBM BigFix
9 7 (1.38%) PowerCLI
9 7 (1.38%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.38%) WSUS
10 6 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
10 6 (1.19%) Tivoli Identity Manager
11 5 (0.99%) Packer
12 4 (0.79%) CA Endevor
12 4 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (0.79%) Opsview
12 4 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 4 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 132 (26.09%) Red Hat
2 96 (18.97%) Microsoft
3 65 (12.85%) VMware
4 58 (11.46%) Dynatrace
5 45 (8.89%) Oracle
6 36 (7.11%) Dell
7 32 (6.32%) HP
8 30 (5.93%) Cognos
9 27 (5.34%) NetApp
10 23 (4.55%) Veeam
11 22 (4.35%) Splunk
12 18 (3.56%) Citrix
13 17 (3.36%) Cisco
13 17 (3.36%) Palo Alto
14 14 (2.77%) Qualys
14 14 (2.77%) Salesforce
15 13 (2.57%) ESRI
15 13 (2.57%) Google
15 13 (2.57%) SAP
16 10 (1.98%) McAfee