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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 66 96
Rank change year-on-year +19 +30 +17
Contract jobs citing IBM 20 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.18% 1.39% 0.67%
As % of the Vendors category 7.17% 3.59% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £497 £481 £303
25th Percentile £506 - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -6.98% +23.14%
75th Percentile £691 - £595
90th Percentile £749 £563 £676
Scotland median daily rate £496 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.85% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £70.00 - £57.50

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 279 334 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.36% 38.79% 43.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 186 359
10th Percentile £203 £156 £175
25th Percentile £413 £232 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £525 £538 £528
90th Percentile £600 £694 £593
Scotland median daily rate £463 £444 £475
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 27 5
10th Percentile £16.70 £13.23 -
25th Percentile - £15.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -15.33% +21.49%
75th Percentile £23.00 £18.66 £21.67
90th Percentile £53.68 £36.51 £40.92
Scotland median hourly rate £18.69 £17.25 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.35% -2.65% -42.84%

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 22 July 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 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) Alation
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) SNA
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (10.00%) DB2
2 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
2 3 (15.00%) Rational Rhapsody
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (5.00%) Toad
4 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Governance Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Project Governance Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Mainframe Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) DB2 Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) DB2 DBA
5 1 (5.00%) Environment Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Release Train Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Unix Architect
5 1 (5.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Windows
3 4 (20.00%) HPUX
3 4 (20.00%) Solaris
4 3 (15.00%) zOS
5 2 (10.00%) AIX
5 2 (10.00%) Unix
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (25.00%) Change Management
5 4 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (15.00%) Planning and Forecasting
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) Systems Thinking
6 3 (15.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C++
1 3 (15.00%) JCL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) MISRA
1 1 (5.00%) MISRA C
1 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Informatica
2 4 (20.00%) StreamSets
2 4 (20.00%) Sun
2 4 (20.00%) Unisys
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) BMC
5 1 (5.00%) Confluent
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat