DB2 Contracts in Scotland

IBM DB2
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DB2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DB2 over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 149 152
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 -31
Contract jobs citing DB2 14 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.63% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.54% 2.63% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 10
10th Percentile £400 £509 £420
25th Percentile £494 £536 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +29.03% +5.68%
75th Percentile £722 £693 £501
90th Percentile £723 £732 £591
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £62.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.83 £46.00
Median hourly rate - £66.56 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +41.62% -
75th Percentile - £68.20 £48.00
90th Percentile - £68.53 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

DB2 is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 396 609 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.94% 21.30% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 484 382
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +3.13% +12.94%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £563
90th Percentile £663 £684 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +4 14 £625 -5.03% 2
DB2
UK

DB2
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 (28.57%) SAS
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (28.57%) iSCSI
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
2 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.14%) HBase
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) CircleCI
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (57.14%) Finance
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (14.29%) Law
6 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Python Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Mainframe Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
2 4 (28.57%) Flash
2 4 (28.57%) POSIX
3 3 (21.43%) Hibernate
4 2 (14.29%) JSON
4 2 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5
5 1 (7.14%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Client/Server
1 4 (28.57%) NVMe
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Windows
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) SDLC
3 5 (35.71%) Capacity Management
3 5 (35.71%) Microservices
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (28.57%) High Availability
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
4 4 (28.57%) Observability
4 4 (28.57%) OO
4 4 (28.57%) OOP
4 4 (28.57%) Preventative Maintenance
4 4 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 4 (28.57%) Storage Management
4 4 (28.57%) Wealth Management
5 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
4 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) Scala
6 1 (7.14%) COBOL
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
1 4 (28.57%) GPFS
1 4 (28.57%) NFS
2 1 (7.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (7.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (7.14%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (7.14%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Sybase
2 5 (35.71%) IBM
3 4 (28.57%) Brocade
3 4 (28.57%) EMC
3 4 (28.57%) Google
3 4 (28.57%) NetApp
3 4 (28.57%) Veritas
4 2 (14.29%) Greenplum
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk