DB2 Jobs in Scotland

IBM DB2
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 234 203
Rank change year-on-year +101 -31 +26
Permanent jobs citing DB2 12 43 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.64% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.63% 2.20% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 15
10th Percentile £69,660 £70,010 £50,000
25th Percentile £72,899 £70,024 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,870 £70,996 £64,029
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% +10.88% +3.69%
75th Percentile £100,000 £72,914 £95,410
90th Percentile - £73,497 £119,168
UK median annual salary £65,000 £78,126 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.80% +25.00% -3.85%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 331 1,958 860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.75% 29.07% 18.20%
Number of salaries quoted 206 492 476
10th Percentile £35,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,833 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £92,300 £77,500 £89,852
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DB2 in Scotland.

Salary trend for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DB2 in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DB2 in Scotland

DB2
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +152 6 £90,000 +28.57% 7
Edinburgh +14 6 £74,870 +4.00% 2
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 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (8.33%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) DB2 Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) DB2 Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Programmer
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 2 (16.67%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (16.67%) J2EE
3 2 (16.67%) Java EE
3 2 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (16.67%) SOAP
3 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 2 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mainframe
2 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (16.67%) Algorithms
3 2 (16.67%) AS400
3 2 (16.67%) iSeries
4 1 (8.33%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Concurrent Programming
3 4 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
5 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) High Availability
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 2 (16.67%) TDD
5 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) UML
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) RPG
3 2 (16.67%) RPG IV
4 1 (8.33%) COBOL
4 1 (8.33%) JCL
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) REXX
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Sybase
2 3 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (16.67%) Curam
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle