IBM Contracts 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 3 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 63 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 -28 +29
Contract jobs citing IBM 12 6 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.52% 0.78% 5.11%
As % of the Vendors category 3.24% 1.90% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 27
10th Percentile £406 - £376
25th Percentile £408 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £432 £440 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -20.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £477 - £613
90th Percentile £627 £446 £638
Scotland median daily rate £496 £463 £538
% change year-on-year +7.19% -13.95% +19.44%
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 £70.00 - £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 370 315 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.89% 41.02% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 220 259
10th Percentile £300 £200 £268
25th Percentile £375 £346 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £564
90th Percentile £613 £632 £657
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +2.78% -4.86% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 14
10th Percentile - - £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £11.50 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.83 £16.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +23.94% -9.71% -57.02%
75th Percentile £25.15 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile - £57.50 £64.76
Scotland median hourly rate £19.17 £17.50 £20.10
% change year-on-year +9.54% -12.91% -35.18%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IBM in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for IBM in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IBM in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Glasgow

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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 (25.00%) JBoss
1 3 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
2 1 (8.33%) SAS
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) DB2
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Consultant
4 2 (16.67%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) CICS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Management Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Consultant
5 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Kafka
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
1 4 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (25.00%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
4 1 (8.33%) CSS
4 1 (8.33%) EntireX
4 1 (8.33%) Flash
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) JSON
4 1 (8.33%) POSIX
4 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (8.33%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Unix
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
4 1 (8.33%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
5 1 (8.33%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) GPFS
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Sybase
2 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (16.67%) Brocade
3 2 (16.67%) EMC
3 2 (16.67%) NetApp
3 2 (16.67%) Veritas
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Software AG
4 1 (8.33%) webMethods