IBM Job Trends in West Yorkshire

IBM
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 2 January 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
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 87 107
Rank change year-on-year -28 +20 +85
Permanent jobs citing IBM 4 16 36
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.22% 1.07% 1.84%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 3.66% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3 8 36
10th Percentile £49,650 £41,250 £26,045
25th Percentile £49,875 - £62,952
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £45,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% -36.24% +5.34%
75th Percentile £56,750 £66,569 £82,548
90th Percentile - £95,186 £84,056
Yorkshire median annual salary £53,500 £45,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +18.89% -36.24% +47.03%

All Vendors
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 629 437 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 34.58% 29.17% 44.83%
Number of salaries quoted 301 259 638
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,774 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £49,493 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -10.01% +6.80%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £36,500 £47,500 £49,995
% change year-on-year -23.16% -4.99% -0.01%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

IBM job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

IBM
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing IBM

IBM
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 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
Leeds -21 4 £53,500 +18.89% 1
IBM
Yorkshire

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) FileNet
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Lead Test Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hackathon
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) ERP
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Records Management
4 1 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP Fortify
2 2 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle