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 31 October 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
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Permanent jobs citing IBM 5 0 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.63% - 0.89%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% - 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £63,000
25th Percentile £76,250 - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - £72,500
75th Percentile £78,750 - £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median annual salary £75,900 £43,800 £65,351
% change year-on-year +73.29% -32.98% -3.38%

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 301 309 266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.67% 31.72% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 103 150 218
10th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £35,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.49% +6.50% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,656 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £90,000 £72,650
Scotland median annual salary £32,851 £50,154 £40,181
% change year-on-year -34.50% +24.82% -23.47%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IBM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

IBM job vacancy trend 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 & 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
1 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Law
1 4 (80.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Lead Java Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) J2EE
2 1 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) AIOps
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
2 4 (80.00%) Observability
2 4 (80.00%) Operational Stability
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Tech Ops
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Grafana
1 4 (80.00%) Netcool
1 4 (80.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 4 (80.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (80.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle