DB2 Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

IBM DB2
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 64 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +5
Contract jobs citing DB2 16 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.12% 1.72% 1.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.31% 10.08% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile £480 £403 £400
25th Percentile £488 £413 £557
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -24.80% +13.12%
75th Percentile £531 £513 £659
90th Percentile £535 £545 £723
Scotland median daily rate £500 £470 £625
% change year-on-year +6.38% -24.80% +13.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

DB2 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 219 129 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 29.01% 17.09% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 84 125
10th Percentile £313 £348 -
25th Percentile £395 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -11.05% -5.94%
75th Percentile £525 £491 £575
90th Percentile £578 £581 £675
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.00% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £50.25 £17.99 -
25th Percentile £50.63 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +167.99% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 - -
90th Percentile £56.75 £24.49 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +155.23% +0.46% -15.22%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

DB2 job vacancy trend in Glasgow

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DB2

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Relational Database
2 13 (81.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Mockito
General
1 16 (100.00%) Finance
2 15 (93.75%) Social Skills
3 14 (87.50%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (87.50%) Banking
3 14 (87.50%) Front Office
4 13 (81.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (93.75%) Developer
1 15 (93.75%) Java Developer
2 13 (81.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
2 13 (81.25%) SQL Developer
2 13 (81.25%) Sybase Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Database Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (100.00%) Spring
2 14 (87.50%) JMS
2 14 (87.50%) Kafka
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) J2SE
4 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Data Structures
2 13 (81.25%) Equities
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 15 (93.75%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (87.50%) Database Tuning
4 13 (81.25%) Multithreading
4 13 (81.25%) Open Source
4 13 (81.25%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) API Integration
6 1 (6.25%) Microservices
6 1 (6.25%) OO
6 1 (6.25%) OOD
6 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
6 1 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) Java
2 15 (93.75%) SQL
3 14 (87.50%) Shell Script
4 13 (81.25%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Sybase
2 1 (6.25%) DocuSign
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow