IBM Contracts in Edinburgh

IBM
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 60 105
Rank change year-on-year +11 +45 +14
Contract jobs citing IBM 18 12 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.88% 1.47% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 6.45% 3.76% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 3
10th Percentile £497 £409 £520
25th Percentile £506 £489 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £691 £531 £625
90th Percentile £749 £625 £670
Scotland median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +10.00%

All Vendors
Edinburgh

IBM falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 279 319 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.64% 39.14% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 181 393
10th Percentile £189 £210 £179
25th Percentile £400 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +3.16% -
75th Percentile £561 £588 £525
90th Percentile £638 £725 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £473
% change year-on-year -0.11% -1.69% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 4
10th Percentile - £15.46 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.26
Median hourly rate £22.44 £17.72 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year +26.62% -17.45% -41.19%
75th Percentile £24.30 £55.00 £29.69
90th Percentile £31.54 £60.75 £44.13
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £59.03
% change year-on-year +25.71% -70.35% +47.56%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Alation
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Blueworks
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) SNA
1 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 3 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) DB2
3 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) JMeter
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (77.78%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Data Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Governance Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Project Governance Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Mainframe Specialist
4 2 (11.11%) Test Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Environment Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Mainframe Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Mainframe
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) HPUX
3 4 (22.22%) Solaris
3 4 (22.22%) zOS
4 2 (11.11%) AIX
4 2 (11.11%) Unix
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (16.67%) Planning and Forecasting
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) SDLC
5 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Systems Thinking
5 3 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) JCL
2 2 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Bash
3 1 (5.56%) Groovy
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Informatica
2 4 (22.22%) Sun
2 4 (22.22%) Unisys
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) StreamSets
4 2 (11.11%) Confluent
4 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
4 2 (11.11%) HP
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat