DataStage Contract Job Trends in Scotland

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DataStage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DataStage 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.12% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £675 - -
25th Percentile £681 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £703 - -
75th Percentile £714 - -
90th Percentile £715 - -
UK median daily rate £465 £550 £675
% change year-on-year -15.45% -18.52% +71.97%

All Database & BI Skills
Scotland

DataStage 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 318 337 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.11% 20.69% 17.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 225 291
10th Percentile £314 £300 £325
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £460 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -4.17% -2.04%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £589 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 3
10th Percentile £19.53 £20.72 £18.93
25th Percentile £39.69 £22.42 £19.95
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +88.68% +22.46% -38.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £28.07 £37.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.25 £47.33
UK median hourly rate £51.75 £31.64 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.56% -20.90% -33.33%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

DataStage job vacancy trend in Scotland

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DataStage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DataStage

DataStage
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 DataStage within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 March 2026. 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 - 2 £703 - 2
DataStage
UK

DataStage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Alfresco
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (50.00%) Rapid Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Talend
2 1 (50.00%) IBM