IBM Job Trends in Glasgow

IBM
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring knowledge or experience of IBM products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IBM over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within the International Business Machines Corporation.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 146 58
Rank change year-on-year +69 -88 +52
Permanent jobs citing IBM 6 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.80% 0.16% 1.78%
As % of the Vendors category 2.05% 0.46% 4.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £68,375 - -
25th Percentile £69,688 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% -13.33% +231.13%
75th Percentile £77,188 - -
90th Percentile £78,125 - -
Scotland median annual salary £75,900 £52,004 £65,351
% change year-on-year +45.95% -20.42% -5.90%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 293 655 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.22% 34.95% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 97 183 231
10th Percentile £25,087 £36,900 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,851 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,625 £61,313
90th Percentile £80,950 £90,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £32,851 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -34.30% +11.11% -10.00%

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

IBM
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing IBM

IBM
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Law
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Lead Java Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Decision-Making
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) AIOps
2 4 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 4 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 4 (66.67%) Observability
2 4 (66.67%) Operational Stability
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Tech Ops
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Concurrent Programming
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Review
4 1 (16.67%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
1 4 (66.67%) Netcool
1 4 (66.67%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 4 (66.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Sybase