IBM Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

IBM
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 24 March 2026, 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
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 80 69
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 -22
Contract jobs citing IBM 6 2 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.84% 0.24% 1.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.97% 0.57% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 7
10th Percentile £401 - £410
25th Percentile £402 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £479 £440
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +8.86% -12.00%
75th Percentile £450 - £586
90th Percentile £526 - £722
Scotland median daily rate £488 £513 £481
% change year-on-year -4.88% +6.49% -6.10%

All Vendors
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 305 351 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.90% 42.19% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 238 240
10th Percentile £263 £311 £200
25th Percentile £395 £368 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% -1.69%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 15
10th Percentile £15.82 £19.87 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.06 £13.46
Median hourly rate £16.25 £20.75 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +29.69% -72.89%
75th Percentile £25.95 £24.44 £16.35
90th Percentile £50.50 £26.43 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £25.05 £23.00 £17.61
% change year-on-year +8.89% +30.61% -26.19%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Glasgow

IBM
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Glasgow over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Glasgow

IBM
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
3 1 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) DB2
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
2 1 (16.67%) Derivative
2 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) Dependency Management
4 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C++
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 2 (33.33%) PMP
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase