The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Glasgow region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 52 47 55
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +8
Contract jobs citing DB2 28 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.972% 1.684% 1.143%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.02% 5.242% 3.670%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
Average daily rate £450 - £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.88 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.88% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
254 248 218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 26.96% 32.12% 31.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 115 134
Average daily rate £338 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.46% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £249 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 7
Average hourly rate £9.25 £9.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -76.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
DB2
Scotland

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Glasgow DB2 Jobs Demand Trend

DB2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DB2 across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Glasgow region.

Glasgow DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing DB2 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DB2.

1 28 (100.00%) Sybase
2 26 (92.86%) Java
3 25 (89.29%) UNIX
4 23 (82.14%) Linux
5 21 (75.00%) SQL
6 17 (60.71%) Spring
6 17 (60.71%) J2SE
7 16 (57.14%) JUnit
8 14 (50.00%) JMS
9 6 (21.43%) RDBMS
10 5 (17.86%) Front Office
10 5 (17.86%) Finance
10 5 (17.86%) OO
10 5 (17.86%) C#
11 4 (14.29%) .NET
11 4 (14.29%) MS Excel
11 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
11 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
11 4 (14.29%) XML
11 4 (14.29%) WPF
11 4 (14.29%) WinForms
12 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
12 3 (10.71%) Scala
12 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
12 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
12 3 (10.71%) Mathematics
12 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
12 3 (10.71%) Perl
13 2 (7.143%) Oracle
13 2 (7.143%) Windows

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region citing DB2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DB2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (60.71%) J2SE
1 17 (60.71%) Spring
2 14 (50.00%) JMS
3 4 (14.29%) XML
3 4 (14.29%) WinForms
3 4 (14.29%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) WPF
4 1 (3.571%) jQuery
4 1 (3.571%) Ext JS
4 1 (3.571%) Apache CXF
4 1 (3.571%) Cairngorm
4 1 (3.571%) HTML5
4 1 (3.571%) Sencha Touch
4 1 (3.571%) Parsley
4 1 (3.571%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.571%) CSS
4 1 (3.571%) JSP
4 1 (3.571%) DHTML
4 1 (3.571%) HTML
4 1 (3.571%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.571%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) RDBMS
2 4 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.571%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.571%) KDB
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (57.14%) JUnit
2 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.571%) IntelliJ
2 1 (3.571%) Aptana Studio
General
1 5 (17.86%) Front Office
1 5 (17.86%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Banking
2 2 (7.143%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Developer
2 19 (67.86%) Java Developer
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 4 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Architect
5 1 (3.571%) DBA
5 1 (3.571%) SQL Server DBA
5 1 (3.571%) Server Specialist
5 1 (3.571%) SAP Architect
5 1 (3.571%) Flex Developer
5 1 (3.571%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.571%) Applications Architect
5 1 (3.571%) Scala Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Mathematics
1 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.143%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (3.571%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) UNIX
2 23 (82.14%) Linux
3 2 (7.143%) Windows
4 1 (3.571%) AIX
4 1 (3.571%) Solaris
4 1 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) OO
2 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineering
3 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
4 2 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (3.571%) UML
5 1 (3.571%) OOP
5 1 (3.571%) Financial Modelling
5 1 (3.571%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (3.571%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.571%) Migration
5 1 (3.571%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Java
2 21 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) C#
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
4 3 (10.71%) Perl
5 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.571%) VB
5 1 (3.571%) ABAP
5 1 (3.571%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) Sybase
2 2 (7.143%) Oracle
3 1 (3.571%) SAP
3 1 (3.571%) IBM
3 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.571%) Sencha
Glasgow, Scotland
The role would particularly suit candidates who have a foundation in Java with particular emphasis on Scala and DB2. You should also possess good business analytical skills, strong...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: market rates
Posted: 24 April 2013