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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 252 165
Rank change year-on-year +149 -87 +54
Permanent jobs citing IBM 43 25 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.53% 0.37% 1.21%
As % of the Vendors category 5.62% 1.11% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 35 22 36
10th Percentile - £68,718 £49,044
25th Percentile £37,574 £68,790 £53,083
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% - -2.68%

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 765 2,248 1,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.15% 33.37% 35.20%
Number of salaries quoted 417 772 760
10th Percentile £23,504 £24,888 £30,000
25th Percentile £26,929 £33,250 £39,829
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +12.63%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £73,875
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
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 1 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 1 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 14 £66,367 -16.65% 7
Fife - 7 £40,101 - 1
Moray - 7 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 - 1
Glasgow +177 5 £75,360 +15.94% 12
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 (9.30%) Apache
1 4 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.63%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) CloudBees
2 4 (9.30%) GitHub
3 1 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) FTP
1 2 (4.65%) SNA
1 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.33%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) DB2
2 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JUnit
General
1 29 (67.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (65.12%) Aerospace
2 28 (65.12%) Electronics
3 7 (16.28%) Banking
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Legal
5 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 32 (74.42%) Systems Engineer
2 28 (65.12%) Junior
2 28 (65.12%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Graduate
3 5 (11.63%) Senior
4 4 (9.30%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Lead
5 2 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.33%) Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Mainframe Analyst
6 1 (2.33%) Mainframe Support
6 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (2.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) Kafka
1 1 (2.33%) Spring
1 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Hackathon
1 5 (11.63%) Learning Management System
1 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.98%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.65%) AS400
4 2 (4.65%) iSeries
5 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) zOS
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (65.12%) Computer Science
2 28 (65.12%) Continuous Improvement
2 28 (65.12%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 28 (65.12%) Mathematics
2 28 (65.12%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
2 28 (65.12%) Physics
2 28 (65.12%) PLM
2 28 (65.12%) Project Management
2 28 (65.12%) SysML
2 28 (65.12%) Systems Engineering
2 28 (65.12%) UML
3 12 (27.91%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
5 6 (13.95%) Customer Service
5 6 (13.95%) DevOps
6 5 (11.63%) API Development
6 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (11.63%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) MATLAB
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) C#
4 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.63%) Kotlin
5 3 (6.98%) SQL
6 2 (4.65%) JCL
6 2 (4.65%) RPG
6 2 (4.65%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 33 (76.74%) Degree
2 28 (65.12%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (11.63%) Master's Degree
3 5 (11.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Ansible
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 2 (4.65%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Google
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) IBM Sterling
3 1 (2.33%) Sybase