The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 61 99 92
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -7
Contract jobs citing DB2 64 10 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 2.556% 0.372% 0.702%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.52% 1.949% 3.636%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 5
Average daily rate £389 - £370
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 - £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 - £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-22.41% -17.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
511 513 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 20.41% 19.08% 19.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 199 277
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £240 £246
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
DB2
UK

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland DB2 Daily Rate Histogram

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow +7 33 £450 - 4
Edinburgh - 23 £375 - 7
Renfrewshire - - - -
DB2
UK

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 51 (60.00%) UNIX
2 46 (54.12%) Linux
3 44 (51.76%) Java
4 41 (48.24%) SQL
5 40 (47.06%) Sybase
6 26 (30.59%) Spring
6 26 (30.59%) Oracle
6 26 (30.59%) J2SE
7 25 (29.41%) JUnit
8 23 (27.06%) JMS
9 16 (18.82%) Finance
10 15 (17.65%) Banking
11 13 (15.29%) IBM
11 13 (15.29%) Windows
12 11 (12.94%) Tivoli
13 10 (11.76%) Front Office
13 10 (11.76%) RDBMS
14 9 (10.59%) AIX
14 9 (10.59%) Perl
14 9 (10.59%) Business Analysis
15 8 (9.412%) Migration
15 8 (9.412%) Software Engineering
16 7 (8.235%) Tivoli Identity Manager
16 7 (8.235%) Solaris
16 7 (8.235%) OO
17 6 (7.059%) Data Modelling
17 6 (7.059%) Active Directory
17 6 (7.059%) HPUX
17 6 (7.059%) .NET
17 6 (7.059%) MySQL

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 26 (30.59%) Spring
1 26 (30.59%) J2SE
2 23 (27.06%) JMS
3 6 (7.059%) .NET
3 6 (7.059%) WebSphere
4 5 (5.882%) Middleware
4 5 (5.882%) XML
5 4 (4.706%) Web Services
5 4 (4.706%) JSF
5 4 (4.706%) WinForms
5 4 (4.706%) JSR 286
5 4 (4.706%) WPF
5 4 (4.706%) JAX-WS
6 2 (2.353%) HTML
6 2 (2.353%) CSS
6 2 (2.353%) jQuery
7 1 (1.176%) ISPF
7 1 (1.176%) JSON
7 1 (1.176%) Apache Flex
7 1 (1.176%) Ext JS
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
1 5 (5.882%) MQSeries
2 4 (4.706%) CICS
2 4 (4.706%) FileNet
2 4 (4.706%) WebSphere Portal
3 1 (1.176%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.706%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.176%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.706%) LDAP
1 4 (4.706%) HTTP
2 3 (3.529%) Unified Communications
2 3 (3.529%) SAN
3 1 (1.176%) NAS
3 1 (1.176%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) RDBMS
2 6 (7.059%) MySQL
3 5 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (5.882%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.529%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.529%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.353%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.176%) IDMS
6 1 (1.176%) KDB
6 1 (1.176%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.176%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 25 (29.41%) JUnit
2 4 (4.706%) Rational Application Developer
3 1 (1.176%) Aptana Studio
3 1 (1.176%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.176%) IntelliJ
General
1 16 (18.82%) Finance
2 15 (17.65%) Banking
3 10 (11.76%) Front Office
4 5 (5.882%) Retail
5 3 (3.529%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.176%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Developer
2 28 (32.94%) Java Developer
3 10 (11.76%) Consultant
4 7 (8.235%) Analyst
4 7 (8.235%) Architect
5 6 (7.059%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.882%) Solutions Consultant
6 5 (5.882%) DBA
6 5 (5.882%) Database Specialist
7 4 (4.706%) Data Architect
7 4 (4.706%) DB2 DBA
7 4 (4.706%) WebSphere Developer
7 4 (4.706%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.706%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.706%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.529%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.529%) UNIX Consultant
8 3 (3.529%) Administrator
9 2 (2.353%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.353%) Information Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.059%) Mathematics
1 6 (7.059%) Computer Science
2 5 (5.882%) Credit Risk
2 5 (5.882%) Equity Derivative
2 5 (5.882%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.353%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (1.176%) Derivative
4 1 (1.176%) Equities
4 1 (1.176%) VSAM
4 1 (1.176%) Replication
4 1 (1.176%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.176%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 51 (60.00%) UNIX
2 46 (54.12%) Linux
3 13 (15.29%) Windows
4 9 (10.59%) AIX
5 7 (8.235%) Solaris
6 6 (7.059%) HPUX
7 5 (5.882%) zOS
8 3 (3.529%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.353%) MVS
10 1 (1.176%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (10.59%) Business Analysis
2 8 (9.412%) Migration
2 8 (9.412%) Software Engineering
3 7 (8.235%) OO
4 6 (7.059%) Data Modelling
4 6 (7.059%) Risk Analysis
5 5 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.882%) ITIL
6 4 (4.706%) RAD
6 4 (4.706%) Data Management
6 4 (4.706%) Content Management
6 4 (4.706%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (3.529%) Problem Management
7 3 (3.529%) Zachman Framework
7 3 (3.529%) TOGAF
8 2 (2.353%) OOD
8 2 (2.353%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (2.353%) Time Management
8 2 (2.353%) Incident Management
9 1 (1.176%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.76%) Java
2 41 (48.24%) SQL
3 9 (10.59%) Perl
4 6 (7.059%) C#
5 5 (5.882%) Scala
6 3 (3.529%) COBOL
6 3 (3.529%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.353%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.353%) VBA
7 2 (2.353%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.176%) Korn
8 1 (1.176%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.176%) REXX
8 1 (1.176%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.176%) VB
8 1 (1.176%) ABAP
8 1 (1.176%) ActionScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.706%) QA
2 3 (3.529%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.059%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.706%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 1 (1.176%) SRDF
3 1 (1.176%) RACF
3 1 (1.176%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Tivoli
2 7 (8.235%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 2 (2.353%) MAINVIEW
4 1 (1.176%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 40 (47.06%) Sybase
2 26 (30.59%) Oracle
3 13 (15.29%) IBM
4 6 (7.059%) Teradata
5 4 (4.706%) Lotus
6 2 (2.353%) BMC
6 2 (2.353%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.176%) Sencha
7 1 (1.176%) TSYS
7 1 (1.176%) JBoss
7 1 (1.176%) HP
7 1 (1.176%) EMC
7 1 (1.176%) Citrix
7 1 (1.176%) CA
7 1 (1.176%) SAP
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Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Rate: Market
Posted: 11 June 2013
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Rate: From £300 to £375 per day
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