DB2 Contracts in England

IBM DB2
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DB2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DB2 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 463 510 540
Rank change year-on-year +47 +30 -42
Contract jobs citing DB2 72 153 243
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 1.68% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 80 156
10th Percentile £353 £389 £409
25th Percentile £413 £463 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £606 £650 £675
90th Percentile £726 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

DB2 is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +58 41 £550 +4.76% 8
Midlands +30 11 £358 -13.73% 6
West Midlands - 11 £358 - 3
South East +23 8 £358 -39.06% 3
North of England +20 3 £600 +20.00% 4
North West +13 2 £675 +80.00% 3
Yorkshire +10 1 £600 +11.63% 1
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 23 (31.94%) CICS
2 14 (19.44%) SAS
3 4 (5.56%) CMS
4 3 (4.17%) IIS
5 2 (2.78%) JBoss
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.39%) Apache
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.83%) AWS
1 15 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.17%) GCP
2 3 (4.17%) Serverless
3 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.78%) SaaS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) ATM
1 1 (1.39%) SNA
1 1 (1.39%) SSL
1 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) IDMS
2 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
3 8 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 7 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.33%) MySQL
6 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.56%) Sybase ASE
8 3 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (4.17%) IBM InfoSphere
8 3 (4.17%) MariaDB
8 3 (4.17%) OLTP
8 3 (4.17%) Scylla
9 2 (2.78%) NewSQL
9 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.78%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.39%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Finance
3 8 (11.11%) Banking
4 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Arabic Language
6 3 (4.17%) French Language
6 3 (4.17%) German Language
6 3 (4.17%) Japanese Language
6 3 (4.17%) Korean Language
6 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.39%) Danish Language
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (34.72%) Developer
2 16 (22.22%) Mainframe Developer
3 15 (20.83%) Architect
4 12 (16.67%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 9 (12.50%) DBA
6 7 (9.72%) AWS Architect
6 7 (9.72%) Data Architect
7 6 (8.33%) Administrator
8 5 (6.94%) COBOL Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Technical Architect
9 4 (5.56%) AWS Data Architect
9 4 (5.56%) Consultant
9 4 (5.56%) DB2 Administrator
9 4 (5.56%) Senior
10 3 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 3 (4.17%) DB2 Developer
10 3 (4.17%) Java Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Lead
10 3 (4.17%) Test Architect
10 3 (4.17%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 5 (6.94%) Spring
3 4 (5.56%) ISPF
4 3 (4.17%) XML
5 2 (2.78%) JSON
5 2 (2.78%) SOAP
5 2 (2.78%) TIBCO EMS
5 2 (2.78%) XSD
5 2 (2.78%) XSLT
6 1 (1.39%) .NET
6 1 (1.39%) EJB
6 1 (1.39%) J2EE
6 1 (1.39%) JSP
6 1 (1.39%) LDAP
6 1 (1.39%) React
6 1 (1.39%) RESTful
6 1 (1.39%) Servlets
6 1 (1.39%) Web Services
6 1 (1.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 32 (44.44%) Mainframe
2 13 (18.06%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (11.11%) Replication
4 4 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.56%) VSAM
5 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.39%) Clustering
7 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.39%) iSeries
7 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (34.72%) zOS
2 14 (19.44%) Linux
3 10 (13.89%) Unix
4 7 (9.72%) Windows
5 4 (5.56%) VMS
6 3 (4.17%) Solaris
7 2 (2.78%) AIX
8 1 (1.39%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (27.78%) Agile
1 20 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
2 18 (25.00%) Migration
3 15 (20.83%) Scrum
4 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (15.28%) Change Data Capture
7 9 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 8 (11.11%) Database Migration
8 8 (11.11%) Task Automation
9 7 (9.72%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (9.72%) Data Architecture
9 7 (9.72%) ETL
9 7 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (8.33%) High Availability
10 6 (8.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 5 (6.94%) Data Security
11 5 (6.94%) DevOps
11 5 (6.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (6.94%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (37.50%) COBOL
2 24 (33.33%) SQL
3 16 (22.22%) REXX
4 14 (19.44%) Java
5 12 (16.67%) SELCOPY
6 11 (15.28%) CLIST
7 10 (13.89%) Python
8 5 (6.94%) Perl
9 4 (5.56%) JCL
9 4 (5.56%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.78%) Assembly Language
10 2 (2.78%) XPath
11 1 (1.39%) ANSI SQL
11 1 (1.39%) C
11 1 (1.39%) C++
11 1 (1.39%) Scala
11 1 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Degree
4 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GRC
3 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (2.78%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) RACF
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) CA Endevor
2 2 (2.78%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (2.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (52.78%) IBM
2 19 (26.39%) Oracle
3 14 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 13 (18.06%) Syncsort
5 6 (8.33%) SAP
5 6 (8.33%) Sybase
6 4 (5.56%) ICL
6 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.56%) Sun
6 4 (5.56%) Teradata
6 4 (5.56%) Veritas
7 3 (4.17%) Ab Initio
7 3 (4.17%) AppDynamics
7 3 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (4.17%) F5
7 3 (4.17%) Talend
8 2 (2.78%) Google
8 2 (2.78%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.39%) Informatica
9 1 (1.39%) SunGard