IBM Contracts in Scotland

IBM
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 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
25 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 100
Rank change year-on-year +18 -7 +34
Contract jobs citing IBM 31 14 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.81% 0.70% 2.22%
As % of the Vendors category 3.79% 1.82% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 34
10th Percentile £408 £458 £375
25th Percentile £432 £481 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £625 - £613
90th Percentile £675 £550 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £497 £525
% change year-on-year +0.55% -5.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £57.50
75th Percentile £72.50 - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -64.18% +3.70% +22.73%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 819 770 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 47.73% 38.62% 41.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 496 770
10th Percentile £221 £175 £185
25th Percentile £363 £296 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £440 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -7.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £600 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 36 29
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.19 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +1.58% -42.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.30 £58.75
90th Percentile £26.83 £54.38 £65.31
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £26.97 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.75% -32.58% +81.82%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IBM in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for IBM in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +20 19 £513 +2.50% 7
Glasgow - 12 £432 -
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 7 (22.58%) Confluence
2 3 (9.68%) JBoss
2 3 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.68%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.23%) CICS
3 1 (3.23%) SAS
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (9.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Snowflake
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.68%) Alation
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (6.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) SNA
1 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) SAN
2 2 (6.45%) SMS
3 1 (3.23%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (3.23%) HTTP
3 1 (3.23%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) DB2
2 6 (19.35%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.90%) RDBMS
3 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.68%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (6.45%) Apache Hive
5 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) JIRA
2 4 (12.90%) JUnit
3 3 (9.68%) GitLab
3 3 (9.68%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
4 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.23%) Maven
5 1 (3.23%) Selenium
5 1 (3.23%) Toad
5 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (48.39%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.23%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Architect
1 5 (16.13%) Developer
1 5 (16.13%) Senior
2 4 (12.90%) Data Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Data Governance Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Data Governance Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Governance Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Middleware Engineer
3 3 (9.68%) Project Governance Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Project Manager
3 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Consultant
4 2 (6.45%) Mainframe Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Senior Middleware Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) Spring
2 4 (12.90%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.68%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (6.45%) J2EE
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) EntireX
5 1 (3.23%) Flash
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) JSON
5 1 (3.23%) POSIX
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
5 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Mainframe
2 4 (12.90%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.90%) Replication
3 3 (9.68%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.23%) Clustering
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (3.23%) NVMe
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (45.16%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (25.81%) Windows
4 7 (22.58%) Unix
5 4 (12.90%) HPUX
5 4 (12.90%) Solaris
6 3 (9.68%) zOS
7 1 (3.23%) AIX
7 1 (3.23%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
3 7 (22.58%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (19.35%) SDLC
5 5 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
5 5 (16.13%) Change Management
5 5 (16.13%) High Availability
5 5 (16.13%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) ITIL
6 4 (12.90%) OO
6 4 (12.90%) Project Management
7 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
7 3 (9.68%) ITSM
7 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
7 3 (9.68%) Service Management
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (9.68%) UML
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 3 (9.68%) C++
4 3 (9.68%) JCL
5 2 (6.45%) Perl
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) C
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.23%) GDPR
1 1 (3.23%) MISRA
1 1 (3.23%) MISRA C
1 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) GPFS
3 1 (3.23%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Tivoli NetView
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (3.23%) Ansible
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Dynatrace
1 5 (16.13%) Informatica
1 5 (16.13%) Sybase
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) StreamSets
2 4 (12.90%) Sun
2 4 (12.90%) Unisys
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle
4 2 (6.45%) Brocade
4 2 (6.45%) EMC
4 2 (6.45%) Google
4 2 (6.45%) HP
4 2 (6.45%) NetApp
4 2 (6.45%) Veritas
5 1 (3.23%) BMC
5 1 (3.23%) Confluent
5 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.23%) Software AG
5 1 (3.23%) webMethods