DB2 Contracts in Scotland

IBM DB2
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 114 147
Rank change year-on-year +38 +33 +15
Contract jobs citing DB2 43 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.66% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.32% 3.52% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 8 10
10th Percentile £402 £400 £509
25th Percentile £414 £494 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +4.17% +30.43%
75th Percentile £550 £722 £693
90th Percentile £575 £723 £732
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
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
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 349 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.62% 17.93% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £402 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 +29 42 £490 -21.60% 8
Edinburgh - 1 - - 1
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 1 (2.33%) CICS
1 1 (2.33%) CMS
1 1 (2.33%) JBoss
1 1 (2.33%) SAS
1 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.33%) WebLogic
1 1 (2.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.60%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (6.98%) GitHub
3 3 (6.98%) Serverless
3 3 (6.98%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.33%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.33%) GCP
4 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 30 (69.77%) Relational Database
2 28 (65.12%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.95%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (76.74%) JUnit
2 4 (9.30%) GitLab
3 3 (6.98%) JIRA
3 3 (6.98%) Mockito
4 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.33%) Git
5 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (65.12%) Social Skills
2 27 (62.79%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (55.81%) Finance
4 20 (46.51%) Front Office
5 14 (32.56%) Banking
6 11 (25.58%) Investment Banking
7 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
7 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Developer
2 34 (79.07%) Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 7 (16.28%) SQL Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Sybase Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Administrator
4 1 (2.33%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Consultant
4 1 (2.33%) Database Developer
4 1 (2.33%) DBA
4 1 (2.33%) Environment Manager
4 1 (2.33%) Java Server Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) MongoDB Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) Senior
4 1 (2.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (2.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (2.33%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (76.74%) Spring
2 31 (72.09%) Kafka
3 19 (44.19%) JMS
4 12 (27.91%) Spring Boot
5 4 (9.30%) REST
5 4 (9.30%) SOAP
6 3 (6.98%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.98%) J2EE
6 3 (6.98%) Middleware
6 3 (6.98%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (4.65%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.33%) Flash
8 1 (2.33%) Java EE
8 1 (2.33%) POSIX
8 1 (2.33%) PySpark
8 1 (2.33%) RAML
8 1 (2.33%) Web Services
8 1 (2.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 27 (62.79%) Data Structures
2 20 (46.51%) Equities
3 6 (13.95%) Equity Derivative
4 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.98%) Derivative
5 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.33%) Clustering
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.33%) NVMe
6 1 (2.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Replication
6 1 (2.33%) VSAM
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 36 (83.72%) Agile
2 30 (69.77%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (67.44%) SDLC
4 23 (53.49%) Multithreading
5 20 (46.51%) Open Source
6 19 (44.19%) Database Tuning
6 19 (44.19%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (25.58%) Software Engineering
8 10 (23.26%) Test Automation
9 8 (18.60%) Concurrent Programming
10 6 (13.95%) DevOps
10 6 (13.95%) Event-Driven
10 6 (13.95%) Microservices
11 5 (11.63%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (9.30%) Computer Science
12 4 (9.30%) Software Testing
13 3 (6.98%) Data Protection
13 3 (6.98%) Functional Testing
13 3 (6.98%) Investment Management
13 3 (6.98%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (95.35%) SQL
2 38 (88.37%) Java
3 29 (67.44%) Python
4 21 (48.84%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) 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 34 (79.07%) Sybase
2 6 (13.95%) IBM
2 6 (13.95%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) DocuSign
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Brocade
4 2 (4.65%) EMC
4 2 (4.65%) NetApp
4 2 (4.65%) Veritas
5 1 (2.33%) Confluent
5 1 (2.33%) Google
5 1 (2.33%) Informatica
5 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.33%) SAP
5 1 (2.33%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.33%) Sun