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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 54 45
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +23
Contract jobs citing IBM 11 7 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.52% 1.04% 3.89%
As % of the Vendors category 3.17% 2.45% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 22
10th Percentile £406 £413 £415
25th Percentile £408 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% -16.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £465 £494 £623
90th Percentile £627 £523 £638
Scotland median daily rate £452 £459 £525
% change year-on-year -1.53% -12.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £63.75 - £57.50

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 347 286 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 47.80% 42.37% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 193 221
10th Percentile £300 £200 £263
25th Percentile £370 £360 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £580
90th Percentile £600 £700 £688
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 15
10th Percentile - £16.01 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% +36.29% -43.30%
75th Percentile - £34.50 £38.84
90th Percentile - £48.23 £63.44
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +1.21% +7.22% -

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Glasgow

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Glasgow over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

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

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (27.27%) JBoss
1 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
2 1 (9.09%) SAS
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) DB2
2 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Management Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) MongoDB Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) IBM Integration Bus
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
1 3 (27.27%) Middleware
1 3 (27.27%) Spring
1 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 2 (18.18%) J2EE
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) EntireX
3 1 (9.09%) Flash
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) POSIX
3 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Credit Risk
2 1 (9.09%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Unix
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile
1 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) OO
2 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven
3 2 (18.18%) Multithreading
3 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
3 2 (18.18%) SDLC
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 1 (9.09%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Basel III
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) GPFS
2 1 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Sybase
2 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
3 2 (18.18%) Brocade
3 2 (18.18%) EMC
3 2 (18.18%) NetApp
3 2 (18.18%) Veritas
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Software AG
4 1 (9.09%) webMethods