IBM Contracts in Scotland

IBM
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of IBM products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IBM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 104 131
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing IBM 24 62 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.09% 2.17% 1.14%
As % of the Vendors category 2.69% 5.39% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 32
10th Percentile £410 £378 £400
25th Percentile £440 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £567
90th Percentile £683 £638 £629
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £67.50 £43.10
% change year-on-year +3.70% +56.63% -13.81%

All Vendors
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 893 1,150 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.46% 40.22% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 829 778
10th Percentile £184 £175 £175
25th Percentile £350 £368 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +5.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £688 £632 £600
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 16 31
10th Percentile £13.28 £21.26 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £43.86 £16.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +47.56% +105.13%
75th Percentile £55.63 £65.39 £48.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.38 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing IBM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +44 12 £500 -9.09% 1
Glasgow -36 12 £440 -18.14% 1
IBM
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (25.00%) SAS
2 5 (20.83%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (20.83%) WebSphere
2 5 (20.83%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (20.83%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (4.17%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Apigee
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) HTTP
2 4 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (16.67%) iSCSI
2 4 (16.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) DB2
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) JUnit
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 11 (45.83%) Banking
2 11 (45.83%) Finance
3 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Middleware Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Senior Middleware Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) z/OS Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Content Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Mainframe Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Mobile Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) ISPF
2 5 (20.83%) J2EE
2 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) Middleware
3 4 (16.67%) Flash
3 4 (16.67%) POSIX
4 3 (12.50%) Spring
5 2 (8.33%) JSON
5 2 (8.33%) REST
5 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.33%) XML
6 1 (4.17%) React
6 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Mainframe
2 6 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (16.67%) Client/Server
3 4 (16.67%) NVMe
4 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.17%) DataPower
5 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) zOS
2 5 (20.83%) Unix
3 4 (16.67%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Windows
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.17%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 6 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 6 (25.00%) SDLC
3 5 (20.83%) Agile
3 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (16.67%) High Availability
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 4 (16.67%) Observability
4 4 (16.67%) OO
4 4 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (16.67%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 4 (16.67%) Workflow
5 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.50%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) JCL
2 6 (25.00%) REXX
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) Perl
5 2 (8.33%) Assembly Language
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (16.67%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) GPFS
2 4 (16.67%) NFS
3 2 (8.33%) ACF2
3 2 (8.33%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 4 (16.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (4.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) BMC
1 6 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 5 (20.83%) Google
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) Brocade
3 4 (16.67%) EMC
3 4 (16.67%) NetApp
3 4 (16.67%) Sybase
3 4 (16.67%) Veritas
4 2 (8.33%) Confluent
5 1 (4.17%) Adobe
5 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.17%) Informatica
5 1 (4.17%) Solace
5 1 (4.17%) StreamSets
5 1 (4.17%) Teradata