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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 117 152
Rank change year-on-year +45 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing DB2 48 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.75% 0.15% 0.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.57% 0.87% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 1 11
10th Percentile £394 - £475
25th Percentile £415 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -4.35% +27.78%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £675
90th Percentile £573 - £731
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% -
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 £66.00 - £66.56
% change year-on-year - - +21.02%

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 382 345 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.88% 16.88% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 249 404
10th Percentile £276 £321 £381
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -6.15% -4.10%
75th Percentile £538 £513 £541
90th Percentile £599 £604 £613
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £26.17 £17.72 £26.53
25th Percentile £36.05 £18.92 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.62 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.80% -41.10% +34.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £29.67 £66.56
90th Percentile - £44.12 £67.88
UK median hourly rate £36.25 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.38% -27.27% +35.04%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 +28 44 £488 -11.36% 4
Edinburgh +9 4 - - 7
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 3 (6.25%) JBoss
1 3 (6.25%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.25%) WebLogic
1 3 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.67%) AWS
1 8 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) Snowflake
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (6.25%) GitHub
3 3 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.08%) Fivetran
4 1 (2.08%) GCP
4 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (2.08%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (2.08%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (68.75%) Relational Database
2 29 (60.42%) MongoDB
3 6 (12.50%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.08%) DB2 UDB
5 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 36 (75.00%) JUnit
2 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 4 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (6.25%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) Mockito
4 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.08%) Toad
General
1 35 (72.92%) Finance
2 34 (70.83%) Social Skills
3 30 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (54.17%) Front Office
5 21 (43.75%) Banking
6 18 (37.50%) Investment Banking
7 4 (8.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (75.00%) Developer
2 35 (72.92%) Java Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 15 (31.25%) SQL Developer
3 15 (31.25%) Sybase Developer
4 4 (8.33%) DBA
5 3 (6.25%) Administrator
5 3 (6.25%) DB2 DBA
5 3 (6.25%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.17%) DB2 Administrator
7 1 (2.08%) Agile Scrum Master
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Developer
7 1 (2.08%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Environment Manager
7 1 (2.08%) MongoDB Developer
7 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL DBA
7 1 (2.08%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (2.08%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (77.08%) Spring
2 34 (70.83%) Kafka
3 24 (50.00%) JMS
4 10 (20.83%) Spring Boot
5 4 (8.33%) REST
5 4 (8.33%) SOAP
6 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.25%) RAML
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (6.25%) Web Services
6 3 (6.25%) WSDL
7 2 (4.17%) MSMQ
8 1 (2.08%) Flash
8 1 (2.08%) J2EE
8 1 (2.08%) J2SE
8 1 (2.08%) POSIX
8 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (56.25%) Data Structures
2 25 (52.08%) Equities
3 8 (16.67%) Equity Derivative
4 5 (10.42%) Derivative
5 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 3 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.08%) Clustering
6 1 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) NVMe
6 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.08%) Replication
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (77.08%) Linux
2 11 (22.92%) Unix
3 1 (2.08%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) Agile
2 31 (64.58%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (62.50%) SDLC
4 26 (54.17%) Performance Tuning
5 25 (52.08%) Database Tuning
5 25 (52.08%) Open Source
6 24 (50.00%) Multithreading
7 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Concurrent Programming
9 6 (12.50%) DevOps
9 6 (12.50%) Event-Driven
10 4 (8.33%) Microservices
10 4 (8.33%) Scrum
11 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
11 3 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (6.25%) Functional Testing
11 3 (6.25%) High Availability
11 3 (6.25%) OO
11 3 (6.25%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (91.67%) SQL
2 38 (79.17%) Java
3 34 (70.83%) Python
4 25 (52.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (6.25%) Perl
6 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) GPFS
2 1 (2.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (75.00%) Sybase
2 8 (16.67%) Oracle
3 7 (14.58%) IBM
4 2 (4.17%) Brocade
4 2 (4.17%) EMC
4 2 (4.17%) NetApp
4 2 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.17%) Veritas
5 1 (2.08%) BMC
5 1 (2.08%) Confluent
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) DocuSign
5 1 (2.08%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Greenplum
5 1 (2.08%) Informatica
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.08%) Sun