IBM
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 381 432
Rank change year-on-year +85 +51 -90
Permanent jobs citing IBM 1,010 862 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.01% 0.87% 0.86%
As % of the Vendors category 2.76% 2.07% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 471 391 775
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £35,125
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,352 £46,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,759 £88,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,882 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.22% -0.21% +12.47%

All Vendors
UK

IBM is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,536 41,710 62,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.57% 42.06% 38.96%
Number of salaries quoted 24,889 23,890 32,938
10th Percentile £26,742 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +110 915 £57,000 -5.00% 168
UK excluding London +70 782 £55,000 +0.22% 105
Work from Home +57 306 £62,500 - 67
North of England +142 251 £65,000 +18.31% 21
South East +105 230 £52,750 -4.09% 40
North West +112 183 £58,750 +6.82% 12
London +53 173 £65,000 - 69
Midlands -12 132 £45,000 +38.46% 11
East Midlands +53 84 £45,000 -5.26% 4
South West -5 82 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire +71 55 £66,663 +21.47% 9
East of England -6 48 £52,500 +0.96% 21
West Midlands -55 48 £45,000 +38.46% 7
Scotland -87 22 £75,669 +11.88% 4
North East - 13 £78,126 -
Wales 0 11 £54,036 +21.43%
Northern Ireland +23 7 £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 46 (4.55%) WebSphere
2 37 (3.66%) nginx
3 36 (3.56%) Camunda
4 22 (2.18%) FileNet
5 21 (2.08%) Captiva
6 15 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.49%) SAS
7 14 (1.39%) SharePoint
8 13 (1.29%) Confluence
9 9 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 8 (0.79%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.69%) IBM Notes
12 4 (0.40%) MQSeries
13 3 (0.30%) Apache
13 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 2 (0.20%) CICS
14 2 (0.20%) IIS
14 2 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (2.38%) Simulink
2 21 (2.08%) Stateflow
3 18 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.69%) CANalyzer
6 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.20%) Abaqus
7 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.099%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.099%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.099%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.099%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.09%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 8 (0.79%) Maximo
2 8 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.69%) BPCS
4 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.099%) Cognos Controller
5 1 (0.099%) Misys Opics
5 1 (0.099%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.099%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.099%) Postilion
5 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.099%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.099%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.099%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.099%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 428 (42.38%) IBM Cloud
2 405 (40.10%) Azure
3 177 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
4 126 (12.48%) Serverless
5 125 (12.38%) Azure API Management
5 125 (12.38%) Azure Functions
5 125 (12.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 125 (12.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 115 (11.39%) AWS
7 82 (8.12%) GCP
8 66 (6.53%) OpenShift
9 59 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
9 59 (5.84%) Amazon S3
9 59 (5.84%) OCI
10 58 (5.74%) Amazon ECR
10 58 (5.74%) Route 53
11 32 (3.17%) GitHub
12 30 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
13 23 (2.28%) SaaS
14 17 (1.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 60 (5.94%) SAN
2 31 (3.07%) Firewall
3 14 (1.39%) DNS
3 14 (1.39%) J1939
4 12 (1.19%) Internet
5 11 (1.09%) LAN
6 9 (0.89%) Multicast
6 9 (0.89%) VLAN
6 9 (0.89%) VPN
7 8 (0.79%) WAN
7 8 (0.79%) Wireless
8 7 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (0.59%) SSL
10 5 (0.50%) DHCP
10 5 (0.50%) Ethernet
10 5 (0.50%) NAS
10 5 (0.50%) VoIP
11 4 (0.40%) HTTP
11 4 (0.40%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (29.21%) DB2
2 287 (28.42%) MongoDB
3 251 (24.85%) NoSQL
4 239 (23.66%) PostgreSQL
5 169 (16.73%) Relational Database
6 77 (7.62%) SQL Server
7 58 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
8 50 (4.95%) Oracle Database
9 18 (1.78%) Metadata
10 15 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.49%) RDBMS
11 11 (1.09%) Power BI
12 9 (0.89%) Tableau
13 7 (0.69%) OLAP
13 7 (0.69%) QlikView
14 6 (0.59%) OLAP Cube
14 6 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
15 5 (0.50%) GIS
15 5 (0.50%) Oracle OLAP
16 4 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 64 (6.34%) JIRA
2 30 (2.97%) Rational DOORS
3 27 (2.67%) ClearCase
3 27 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 27 (2.67%) Oracle Forms
3 27 (2.67%) Rational Rhapsody
4 24 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
5 21 (2.08%) Plastic SCM
6 20 (1.98%) ClearQuest
7 16 (1.58%) Git
8 12 (1.19%) Maven
9 9 (0.89%) Rational Team Concert
10 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.50%) ERwin
11 5 (0.50%) Jasmine
11 5 (0.50%) Mockito
12 4 (0.40%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.40%) Selenium
13 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.20%) IntelliJ
General
1 396 (39.21%) Public Sector
2 227 (22.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 207 (20.50%) Social Skills
4 192 (19.01%) Finance
5 92 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 91 (9.01%) Banking
7 50 (4.95%) Legal
8 47 (4.65%) Retail
9 38 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (2.08%) Automotive
12 17 (1.68%) Electronics
13 16 (1.58%) Marketing
14 15 (1.49%) Law
15 14 (1.39%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.09%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.99%) Front Office
18 9 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 190 (18.81%) Developer
2 149 (14.75%) Full Stack Engineer
3 136 (13.47%) Senior
4 128 (12.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 125 (12.38%) Azure Developer
6 111 (10.99%) Azure Engineer
7 89 (8.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 71 (7.03%) Analyst
9 67 (6.63%) Lead
10 66 (6.53%) Architect
11 64 (6.34%) Software Engineer
12 61 (6.04%) Senior DevOps
12 61 (6.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 52 (5.15%) Systems Engineer
14 50 (4.95%) Support Engineer
15 40 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 38 (3.76%) Field Engineer
16 38 (3.76%) Field Service Engineer
17 35 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (3.17%) Storage Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 279 (27.62%) React
2 262 (25.94%) .NET
3 253 (25.05%) REST
4 251 (24.85%) AngularJS
5 250 (24.75%) Web Services
6 241 (23.86%) jQuery
7 240 (23.76%) ASP.NET
7 240 (23.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 240 (23.76%) HTML
7 240 (23.76%) Vue
8 238 (23.56%) Backbone.js
8 238 (23.56%) CSS
8 238 (23.56%) Ember.js
8 238 (23.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 163 (16.14%) Node.js
10 36 (3.56%) KeystoneJS
10 36 (3.56%) Swagger
11 21 (2.08%) Spring
12 17 (1.68%) Kafka
13 14 (1.39%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 412 (40.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 408 (40.40%) Blockchain
3 263 (26.04%) Algorithms
4 240 (23.76%) Data Structures
5 215 (21.29%) e-Learning
6 53 (5.25%) Data Centre
7 50 (4.95%) Driving Licence
8 47 (4.65%) AS400
9 41 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
11 39 (3.86%) Public Cloud
11 39 (3.86%) Replication
12 36 (3.56%) iSeries
13 28 (2.77%) EPoS
14 27 (2.67%) Private Cloud
15 25 (2.48%) Clustering
15 25 (2.48%) Mainframe
16 24 (2.38%) DataPower
17 20 (1.98%) Management Information System
18 17 (1.68%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 401 (39.70%) Linux
2 382 (37.82%) Windows
3 238 (23.56%) Android
3 238 (23.56%) Apple iOS
4 53 (5.25%) Unix
5 49 (4.85%) CentOS
6 44 (4.36%) Windows Server
7 40 (3.96%) Alpine Linux
7 40 (3.96%) Debian
8 30 (2.97%) zOS
9 20 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (1.88%) AIX
10 19 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 14 (1.39%) Windows Server 2019
13 13 (1.29%) Windows 10
14 10 (0.99%) Solaris
15 8 (0.79%) SUSE
15 8 (0.79%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 8 (0.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (41.29%) Artificial Intelligence
2 332 (32.87%) DevOps
3 295 (29.21%) Agile
4 288 (28.51%) Full Stack Development
5 278 (27.52%) Co-Creation
6 270 (26.73%) Design Patterns
7 268 (26.53%) Coaching
7 268 (26.53%) Mentoring
8 251 (24.85%) OO
9 248 (24.55%) SOLID
10 242 (23.96%) Web Development
11 240 (23.76%) MVC
11 240 (23.76%) MVVM
11 240 (23.76%) OOP
12 239 (23.66%) User Experience
13 238 (23.56%) Design Thinking
13 238 (23.56%) Responsive Web Design
14 139 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
15 126 (12.48%) API Management
16 125 (12.38%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 390 (38.61%) SQL
2 286 (28.32%) JavaScript
3 242 (23.96%) C#
4 238 (23.56%) Java
5 170 (16.83%) Python
6 43 (4.26%) RPG
7 36 (3.56%) Lua
8 30 (2.97%) C
8 30 (2.97%) PowerShell
9 25 (2.48%) MATLAB
10 21 (2.08%) Embedded C
11 20 (1.98%) RPG IV
12 18 (1.78%) Groovy
13 17 (1.68%) Perl
14 13 (1.29%) Bash
15 12 (1.19%) ActionScript
15 12 (1.19%) JCL
16 11 (1.09%) RPG/400
16 11 (1.09%) VB
17 9 (0.89%) REXX
Qualifications
1 123 (12.18%) Degree
2 89 (8.81%) Security Cleared
3 60 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 47 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 45 (4.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (4.36%) MCSE
7 43 (4.26%) Azure Certification
8 41 (4.06%) MCSA
9 38 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.29%) HND
11 10 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 10 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
12 5 (0.50%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.50%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.50%) RHCA
13 4 (0.40%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.40%) Server+ Certification
14 3 (0.30%) MCP
15 2 (0.20%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.05%) SLA
2 28 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (2.38%) MISRA
4 23 (2.28%) GDPR
5 14 (1.39%) Automotive SPICE
5 14 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
5 14 (1.39%) ISO 26262
6 11 (1.09%) QA
7 8 (0.79%) ISO 9001
8 7 (0.69%) IEC 61508
8 7 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 5 (0.50%) NIST
11 4 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.30%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) Data Quality
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.099%) COREP
System Software
1 105 (10.40%) Docker
2 64 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 37 (3.66%) Firmware
5 27 (2.67%) vSphere
6 26 (2.57%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (1.29%) Hyper-V
8 11 (1.09%) OpenSSH
8 11 (1.09%) Time Sharing Option
8 11 (1.09%) XenApp
9 7 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.50%) NFS
10 5 (0.50%) RACF
11 3 (0.30%) ACF2
11 3 (0.30%) Lustre
11 3 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.099%) PowerHA
13 1 (0.099%) Squid
Systems Management
1 119 (11.78%) Terraform
2 107 (10.59%) Kubernetes
3 59 (5.84%) Prometheus
4 25 (2.48%) Ansible
5 22 (2.18%) QRadar
6 17 (1.68%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.09%) IBM BigFix
7 11 (1.09%) NetBackup
7 11 (1.09%) PowerCLI
7 11 (1.09%) SCOM
7 11 (1.09%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.89%) Backup Exec
9 8 (0.79%) Nagios
10 7 (0.69%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 6 (0.59%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.50%) OMEGAMON
13 4 (0.40%) Nessus
14 3 (0.30%) McAfee ePO
14 3 (0.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 412 (40.79%) Red Hat
2 169 (16.73%) Oracle
3 118 (11.68%) Microsoft
4 81 (8.02%) VMware
5 61 (6.04%) Dell
6 60 (5.94%) Dynatrace
7 56 (5.54%) Google
8 51 (5.05%) SAP
9 46 (4.55%) HP
10 42 (4.16%) NetApp
11 30 (2.97%) ServiceNow
12 28 (2.77%) Splunk
13 26 (2.57%) Citrix
14 22 (2.18%) Cisco
15 21 (2.08%) Kofax
15 21 (2.08%) Lauterbach
15 21 (2.08%) Pega
15 21 (2.08%) Salesforce
16 20 (1.98%) Facebook
16 20 (1.98%) Veeam