DB2 Contracts in Glasgow

IBM DB2
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 66 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing DB2 43 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 5.30% 0.14% 1.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.91% 0.76% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 7
10th Percentile £394 - £593
25th Percentile £415 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -12.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £721
90th Percentile £573 - £736
Scotland median daily rate £488 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - - £63.83
Median hourly rate - - £66.56
75th Percentile - - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate - - £66.56
% change year-on-year - - +41.62%

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 216 131 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 26.63% 18.19% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 101 126
10th Percentile £296 £324 £378
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £484
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -12.10% -0.26%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £569
90th Percentile £611 £575 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £26.17 £17.45 -
25th Percentile £36.05 £18.26 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £49.69
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -60.57% +54.07%
75th Percentile £57.50 £36.67 £67.11
90th Percentile - £46.92 £68.09
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year +180.76% -44.03% +34.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (6.98%) JBoss
1 3 (6.98%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.98%) WebLogic
1 3 (6.98%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Azure
3 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (4.65%) GitHub
4 2 (4.65%) Serverless
5 1 (2.33%) Fivetran
5 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) SAN
2 1 (2.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (76.74%) Relational Database
2 28 (65.12%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.95%) RDBMS
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 35 (81.40%) JUnit
2 3 (6.98%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.98%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Mockito
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 33 (76.74%) Finance
1 33 (76.74%) Social Skills
2 30 (69.77%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (60.47%) Front Office
4 21 (48.84%) Banking
5 18 (41.86%) Investment Banking
6 4 (9.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Developer
2 34 (79.07%) Java Developer
3 15 (34.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 15 (34.88%) SQL Developer
3 15 (34.88%) Sybase Developer
4 3 (6.98%) Scrum Master
5 1 (2.33%) Administrator
5 1 (2.33%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (2.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Database Developer
5 1 (2.33%) DBA
5 1 (2.33%) MongoDB Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Software Developer
5 1 (2.33%) Software Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (83.72%) Spring
2 33 (76.74%) Kafka
3 24 (55.81%) JMS
4 9 (20.93%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.30%) REST
5 4 (9.30%) SOAP
6 3 (6.98%) RAML
6 3 (6.98%) Web Services
6 3 (6.98%) WSDL
7 2 (4.65%) Hibernate
7 2 (4.65%) MSMQ
7 2 (4.65%) Spring Cloud
8 1 (2.33%) Flash
8 1 (2.33%) J2EE
8 1 (2.33%) J2SE
8 1 (2.33%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 27 (62.79%) Data Structures
2 25 (58.14%) Equities
3 8 (18.60%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (11.63%) Derivative
5 3 (6.98%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) NVMe
6 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (83.72%) Linux
2 11 (25.58%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Agile
2 31 (72.09%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (69.77%) SDLC
4 26 (60.47%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (58.14%) Database Tuning
5 25 (58.14%) Open Source
6 24 (55.81%) Multithreading
7 8 (18.60%) Software Engineering
8 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 6 (13.95%) Concurrent Programming
9 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
10 5 (11.63%) DevOps
11 4 (9.30%) Scrum
12 3 (6.98%) API Development
12 3 (6.98%) Backlog Management
12 3 (6.98%) Budget Control
12 3 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 3 (6.98%) Microservices
12 3 (6.98%) OO
12 3 (6.98%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (97.67%) SQL
2 36 (83.72%) Java
3 33 (76.74%) Python
4 25 (58.14%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) Perl
6 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) GPFS
2 1 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (83.72%) Sybase
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle
3 5 (11.63%) IBM
4 2 (4.65%) Brocade
4 2 (4.65%) EMC
4 2 (4.65%) NetApp
4 2 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Veritas
5 1 (2.33%) Databricks
5 1 (2.33%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Greenplum
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) Sun