IBM Jobs in Scotland

IBM
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 May 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 256 175
Rank change year-on-year +139 -81 +41
Permanent jobs citing IBM 44 24 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.49% 0.36% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 5.10% 1.08% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35 21 31
10th Percentile - £68,718 £46,454
25th Percentile £37,574 £68,790 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £75,669 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year -47.01% +11.88% +9.53%
75th Percentile £45,000 £91,934 £77,715
90th Percentile £74,216 - £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -2.44%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 2,224 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.20% 33.27% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 438 761 767
10th Percentile £23,504 £24,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,929 £34,500 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £71,652
90th Percentile £83,738 £77,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing IBM in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IBM in Scotland

IBM
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IBM within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +14 15 £66,367 -12.29% 5
Fife - 7 £40,101 -
Moray - 7 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 - 1
Glasgow +184 5 £75,360 +15.94% 11
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 4 (9.09%) Apache
1 4 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) CICS
2 1 (2.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (63.64%) Simulink
2 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 28 (63.64%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) CloudBees
2 4 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (2.27%) Azure
3 1 (2.27%) GCP
3 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) FTP
1 2 (4.55%) SNA
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (63.64%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 30 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (63.64%) Aerospace
2 28 (63.64%) Electronics
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (72.73%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (63.64%) Junior
2 28 (63.64%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Graduate
6 2 (4.55%) Lead
6 2 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Analyst
7 1 (2.27%) Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Field Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Field Service Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Java Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (2.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Kafka
1 1 (2.27%) Spring
1 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 4 (9.09%) Mainframe
2 3 (6.82%) Hackathon
2 3 (6.82%) Learning Management System
2 3 (6.82%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.55%) AS400
3 2 (4.55%) iSeries
4 1 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) zOS
3 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (70.45%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (65.91%) Continuous Improvement
3 28 (63.64%) Computer Science
3 28 (63.64%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 28 (63.64%) Mathematics
3 28 (63.64%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 28 (63.64%) Physics
3 28 (63.64%) PLM
3 28 (63.64%) Project Management
3 28 (63.64%) SysML
3 28 (63.64%) Systems Engineering
3 28 (63.64%) UML
4 12 (27.27%) Agile
5 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.64%) DevOps
5 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
6 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.09%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (9.09%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 28 (63.64%) MATLAB
2 11 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) C#
5 3 (6.82%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.82%) SQL
6 2 (4.55%) JCL
6 2 (4.55%) RPG
6 2 (4.55%) RPG IV
7 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (70.45%) Degree
2 28 (63.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Ansible
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (2.27%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) IBM Sterling
2 3 (6.82%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Broadcom
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco
3 1 (2.27%) Dell
3 1 (2.27%) EMC
3 1 (2.27%) Fujitsu
3 1 (2.27%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.27%) HP
3 1 (2.27%) NetApp
3 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.27%) Splunk
3 1 (2.27%) Sun
3 1 (2.27%) Sybase