IBM Certification Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

IBM Certification
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for IBM Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IBM Certification 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.49% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

IBM Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 111 117 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.96% 19.28% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 67 104
10th Percentile £65 £192 £160
25th Percentile £413 £370 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.09%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £685 £634
Scotland median daily rate £453 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 14
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £35.31 £21.01 £17.91
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +189.13% -48.89% +98.37%
75th Percentile £79.68 £24.54 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.24 £57.51 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year +9.35% -59.22% +165.29%

IBM Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IBM Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

IBM Certification job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

IBM Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing IBM Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing IBM Certification

IBM Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Acquisition
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Science
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Batch Processing
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Prescriptive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) IBM