IBM Job Trends in the West Midlands

IBM
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 31 December 2025, 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 167 153
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 -22
Permanent jobs citing IBM 30 35 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.80% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 2.35% 2.03% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 29 23 19
10th Percentile £51,250 £43,000 £42,800
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £52,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +39.42% -22.96% +44.39%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £77,000 - £95,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.38% +13.04%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,278 1,722 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.32% 39.58% 45.05%
Number of salaries quoted 783 852 1,307
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £31,552
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,485 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.03% +8.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £65,250 £65,063 £63,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

IBM job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

IBM
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM in the West Midlands

IBM
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Birmingham +38 21 £72,500 +45.00% 2
Solihull - 4 £52,500 -
Warwickshire +23 3 £90,000 +28.57%
Shropshire - 1 - - 2
Coventry - 1 £55,200 - 2
IBM
England

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.00%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 13 (43.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (23.33%) Maximo
3 1 (3.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (3.33%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (3.33%) PaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Firewall
1 4 (13.33%) LAN
1 4 (13.33%) MPLS
1 4 (13.33%) SD-WAN
1 4 (13.33%) WAN
2 1 (3.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) DB2
1 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.33%) Metadata
1 1 (3.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) SAP Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Integration Developer
4 7 (23.33%) Integration Specialist
5 6 (20.00%) Maximo Developer
5 6 (20.00%) Senior
6 5 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
7 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
8 3 (10.00%) Software Licensing Manager
8 3 (10.00%) Software Licensing Specialist
8 3 (10.00%) Software Manager
9 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Project Manager
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
9 1 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
9 1 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (43.33%) BAPI
1 13 (43.33%) IBM Integration Bus
1 13 (43.33%) JMS
1 13 (43.33%) Middleware
1 13 (43.33%) OAuth
1 13 (43.33%) REST
1 13 (43.33%) SAML
1 13 (43.33%) SOAP
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) IoT
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) API Management
1 13 (43.33%) Event-Driven
1 13 (43.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 13 (43.33%) High Availability
1 13 (43.33%) Migration
2 6 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (16.67%) Agile
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
4 4 (13.33%) Storage Management
5 3 (10.00%) Scrum
5 3 (10.00%) Software Asset Management
5 3 (10.00%) Software Licensing
5 3 (10.00%) User Stories
6 2 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (3.33%) Change Management
7 1 (3.33%) Facilities Management
7 1 (3.33%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.33%) SEO
7 1 (3.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) ABAP
2 4 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (3.33%) Scala
4 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) IBM Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
3 1 (3.33%) PMP
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (13.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.33%) Control-M
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) SAP
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix
3 4 (13.33%) Meraki
3 4 (13.33%) SonicWALL
3 4 (13.33%) Veeam
3 4 (13.33%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) BMC
5 1 (3.33%) Planon
5 1 (3.33%) Talend