diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8c72e2649f1..b0c6035ad63 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 - Add Azure Pipelines Scaler ([#1706](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1706))
 - Add OpenStack Metrics Scaler ([#1382](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/issues/1382))
 - Fixed goroutine leaks in usage of timers ([#1704](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1704) | [#1739](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1739))
+- Setting timeouts in the HTTP client used by the IBM MQ scaler ([#1758](https://github.com/kedacore/keda/pull/1758))
 
 ### New
 
diff --git a/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler.go b/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler.go
index 625629f903f..c386bb6dffb 100644
--- a/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler.go
+++ b/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"net/url"
 	"strconv"
+	"time"
 
 	v2beta2 "k8s.io/api/autoscaling/v2beta2"
 	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
@@ -29,7 +30,8 @@ const (
 
 // IBMMQScaler assigns struct data pointer to metadata variable
 type IBMMQScaler struct {
-	metadata *IBMMQMetadata
+	metadata           *IBMMQMetadata
+	defaultHTTPTimeout time.Duration
 }
 
 // IBMMQMetadata Metadata used by KEDA to query IBM MQ queue depth and scale
@@ -65,7 +67,10 @@ func NewIBMMQScaler(config *ScalerConfig) (Scaler, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("error parsing IBM MQ metadata: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	return &IBMMQScaler{metadata: meta}, nil
+	return &IBMMQScaler{
+		metadata:           meta,
+		defaultHTTPTimeout: config.GlobalHTTPTimeout,
+	}, nil
 }
 
 // Close closes and returns nil
@@ -168,7 +173,8 @@ func (s *IBMMQScaler) getQueueDepthViaHTTP() (int, error) {
 	tr := &http.Transport{
 		TLSClientConfig: &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: s.metadata.tlsDisabled},
 	}
-	client := &http.Client{Transport: tr}
+	client := kedautil.CreateHTTPClient(s.defaultHTTPTimeout)
+	client.Transport = tr
 
 	resp, err := client.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler_test.go b/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler_test.go
index 541fa3ac134..2b152352b4f 100644
--- a/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler_test.go
+++ b/pkg/scalers/ibmmq_scaler_test.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package scalers
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 )
 
 // Test host URLs for validation
@@ -98,11 +99,15 @@ func TestParseDefaultQueueDepth(t *testing.T) {
 func TestIBMMQGetMetricSpecForScaling(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, testData := range IBMMQMetricIdentifiers {
 		metadata, err := parseIBMMQMetadata(&ScalerConfig{ResolvedEnv: sampleIBMMQResolvedEnv, TriggerMetadata: testData.metadataTestData.metadata, AuthParams: testData.metadataTestData.authParams})
+		httpTimeout := 100 * time.Millisecond
 
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal("Could not parse metadata:", err)
 		}
-		mockIBMMQScaler := IBMMQScaler{metadata}
+		mockIBMMQScaler := IBMMQScaler{
+			metadata:           metadata,
+			defaultHTTPTimeout: httpTimeout,
+		}
 		metricSpec := mockIBMMQScaler.GetMetricSpecForScaling()
 		metricName := metricSpec[0].External.Metric.Name