Hybrid/Remote IBM Job Trends

IBM
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 13 August 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 305 335
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +3
Permanent jobs citing IBM 89 123 182
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.74% 0.73%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.54% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 63 89 149
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £37,250
25th Percentile - £55,000 £42,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,600 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.01% +28.36% -15.84%
75th Percentile £73,000 £75,900 £71,222
90th Percentile £87,000 £88,750 £92,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £52,250
% change year-on-year +4.84% +18.66% -19.62%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,229 7,978 9,632
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 31.81% 48.02% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,999 6,334
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,650 £91,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year +11.65% -2.83% -7.83%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IBM and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IBM job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

IBM
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IBM

IBM
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing IBM over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

IBM salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (1.12%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.37%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Fidessa
2 3 (3.37%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 3 (3.37%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.12%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.22%) Azure
2 5 (5.62%) AWS
3 4 (4.49%) GCP
3 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.12%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub
5 1 (1.12%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.12%) OCI
5 1 (1.12%) SaaS
5 1 (1.12%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.36%) Firewall
2 2 (2.25%) SSL
3 1 (1.12%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (4.49%) Ataccama
3 4 (4.49%) IBM InfoSphere
3 4 (4.49%) MySQL
3 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.49%) Power BI
3 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.49%) Tableau
3 4 (4.49%) TIBCO EBX
4 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.37%) Db2
5 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.12%) Metadata
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) JIRA
2 8 (8.99%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.25%) Git
4 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (34.83%) Finance
2 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (7.87%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.62%) Front Office
5 5 (5.62%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.37%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.37%) Retail
8 2 (2.25%) Electronics
9 1 (1.12%) Automotive
9 1 (1.12%) Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Military
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) Senior
3 10 (11.24%) Analyst
3 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Consultant
5 8 (8.99%) RPG Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Data Business Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Data Centre Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Software Consultant
9 4 (4.49%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.37%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Fidessa Developer
10 3 (3.37%) IT Consultant
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior TM1 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.62%) FIX Protocol
1 5 (5.62%) REST
2 2 (2.25%) EDI
2 2 (2.25%) Jakarta EE
2 2 (2.25%) XML
3 1 (1.12%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.12%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.12%) IDoc
3 1 (1.12%) JMS
3 1 (1.12%) JPA
3 1 (1.12%) JSON
3 1 (1.12%) OAuth
3 1 (1.12%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.12%) OpenID
3 1 (1.12%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.12%) React
3 1 (1.12%) Spring
3 1 (1.12%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.12%) Web Services
3 1 (1.12%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 38 (42.70%) iSeries
2 13 (14.61%) Data Centre
3 11 (12.36%) Enterprise Storage
3 11 (12.36%) Replication
4 10 (11.24%) AS400
5 5 (5.62%) Equities
6 4 (4.49%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Licensing
7 2 (2.25%) Oracle Licensing
8 1 (1.12%) FMCG
8 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Unix
3 2 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (20.22%) Mentoring
3 17 (19.10%) Agile
4 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (11.24%) DevOps
7 10 (11.24%) Regulatory Change
8 9 (10.11%) Master Data Management
8 9 (10.11%) Validation
9 8 (8.99%) Data Analysis
9 8 (8.99%) ITIL
10 7 (7.87%) Change Management
10 7 (7.87%) Systems Engineering
10 7 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.74%) Signal Processing
11 6 (6.74%) Software Licensing
12 5 (5.62%) BPMN
12 5 (5.62%) Data Stewardship
12 5 (5.62%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) SQL
2 11 (12.36%) RPG
3 10 (11.24%) Python
4 7 (7.87%) Java
5 5 (5.62%) Tcl
6 4 (4.49%) VB
6 4 (4.49%) VBA
6 4 (4.49%) VBScript
7 3 (3.37%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.25%) RPG IV
9 1 (1.12%) Ada
9 1 (1.12%) C
9 1 (1.12%) C++
9 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Degree
2 7 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.37%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PhD
6 1 (1.12%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) SLA
3 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (1.12%) ECSS
4 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.36%) Firmware
2 11 (12.36%) Hyper-V
3 5 (5.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.62%) Terraform
2 4 (4.49%) SCCM
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Kibana
3 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.85%) VMware
3 11 (12.36%) Commvault
3 11 (12.36%) EMC
3 11 (12.36%) HP
3 11 (12.36%) Veeam
4 9 (10.11%) TIBCO
5 8 (8.99%) Oracle
6 5 (5.62%) Sybase
7 4 (4.49%) Adobe
7 4 (4.49%) Cognos
7 4 (4.49%) Informatica
7 4 (4.49%) Snow
8 3 (3.37%) Siemens
9 2 (2.25%) Infor
10 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.12%) Hyperion
10 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.12%) webMethods