IBM Job Trends 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 16 May 2026, 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
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 123 246
Rank change year-on-year -6 +123 -89
Permanent jobs citing IBM 14 16 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.43% 0.82% 0.38%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 2.34% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 7 11 21
10th Percentile - - £68,718
25th Percentile - £45,000 £68,790
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,900 £66,367 £75,669
Median % change year-on-year +14.36% -12.29% +11.88%
75th Percentile £91,250 £75,360 £91,934
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.84% +3.33% -

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 981 685 2,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 29.94% 34.93% 33.18%
Number of salaries quoted 304 341 751
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,500 £24,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,756 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,625 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.91% +10.00% -13.04%

IBM
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

IBM job vacancy trend in Scotland

IBM
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IBM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing IBM

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 16 May 2026. 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 -2 8 £87,500 +31.84% 1
Fife - 2 £75,900 - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 £75,900 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £75,900 -
IBM
UK

IBM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Markit EDM
2 3 (21.43%) IBM Planning Analytics
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (28.57%) dbt
1 4 (28.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (7.14%) ERwin
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Electronics
3 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support
2 4 (28.57%) Applications Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Requirements Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Validation
4 4 (28.57%) Asset Management
4 4 (28.57%) Batch Processing
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Coaching
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (28.57%) Signal Processing
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Ab Initio
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Anaplan
2 3 (21.43%) Hyperion
2 3 (21.43%) SAP