diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..828f51ae28f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, codecov
+, pyjwt
+, pylint
+, pytestCheckHook
+, pytestcov
+, python-dateutil
+, requests
+, responses
+, tox
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "ibm-cloud-sdk-core";
+  version = "3.9.0";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1gwx0z6yqlym9af6wnzq5alcrx8pfsywxn18a0yxhm1j00rkyh2i";
+  };
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    codecov
+    pylint
+    pytestCheckHook
+    pytestcov
+    responses
+    tox
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    pyjwt
+    python-dateutil
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  # Various tests try to access credential files which are not included with the source distribution
+  disabledTests = [
+    "test_iam" "test_cwd" "test_configure_service" "test_get_authenticator"
+    "test_read_external_sources_2" "test_files_duplicate_parts" "test_files_list"
+    "test_files_dict" "test_retry_config_external" "test_gzip_compression_external"
+  ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Client library for the IBM Cloud services";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/IBM/python-sdk-core";
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ globin lheckemann ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 0b2f83cd491..8f3921b936e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -3197,6 +3197,8 @@ in {
 
   ibis-framework = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ibis-framework { };
 
+  ibm-cloud-sdk-core = callPackage ../development/python-modules/ibm-cloud-sdk-core { };
+
   icalendar = callPackage ../development/python-modules/icalendar { };
 
   icecream = callPackage ../development/python-modules/icecream { };