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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 59 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing IBM 7 7 22
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.95% 1.00% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.95% 2.26% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 15
10th Percentile £401 £413 £411
25th Percentile £405 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -14.29% -23.64%
75th Percentile £580 £494 £550
90th Percentile £637 £523 £633
Scotland median daily rate £430 £450 £525
% change year-on-year -4.44% -14.29% -2.33%

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 359 310 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 48.58% 44.41% 40.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 187 214
10th Percentile £268 £205 £244
25th Percentile £370 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £571 £600
90th Percentile £613 £693 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £434 £475
% change year-on-year +3.63% -8.58% +4.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 11
10th Percentile - £16.01 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% +48.86% -67.51%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £17.72
90th Percentile - £36.41 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.55% -

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 19 October 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

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 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Management Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) EntireX
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) J2EE
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) Basel III
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Software AG
2 1 (14.29%) webMethods