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 22 July 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 75 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing IBM 11 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.06% 1.47% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.47% 3.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £432 -
Median % change year-on-year +65.51% - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +10.94% -0.85% -4.76%

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 446 382 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 42.93% 46.93% 39.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 254 219
10th Percentile £263 £300 £200
25th Percentile £363 £378 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% +4.17% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £571
90th Percentile £644 £613 £651
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £440
% change year-on-year - +5.11% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 8
10th Percentile £13.45 - £11.50
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.84 £12.16
Median hourly rate £14.65 £25.15 £16.81
Median % change year-on-year -41.77% +49.61% -5.14%
75th Percentile £16.33 - £54.69
90th Percentile £16.98 - £59.75
Scotland median hourly rate £16.54 £18.69 £17.25
% change year-on-year -11.53% +8.35% -2.65%

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
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Anthropic Claude
1 10 (90.91%) ChatGPT
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub
1 10 (90.91%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (9.09%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Db2
1 10 (90.91%) Relational Database
2 8 (72.73%) Metadata
3 7 (63.64%) MongoDB
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) DataStage
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
General
1 11 (100.00%) Finance
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (90.91%) Banking
3 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (63.64%) Front Office
3 7 (63.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 7 (63.64%) Python Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Equity Derivative
2 7 (63.64%) Derivative
3 3 (27.27%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) BDD
1 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
1 10 (90.91%) LLM
1 10 (90.91%) Risk Management
1 10 (90.91%) TDD
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Data Governance
2 8 (72.73%) Data Lineage
2 8 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (72.73%) Metadata Management
3 7 (63.64%) Actionable Insight
3 7 (63.64%) AI
3 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
3 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Agile
6 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) C++
3 7 (63.64%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (72.73%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Sybase
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Talend