IBM DB2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 491 521 561
Rank change year-on-year +30 +40 -60
Contract jobs citing DB2 107 199 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.48% 1.85% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 105 190
10th Percentile £359 £416 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% +3.48%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £707 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -21.30% +8.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £61.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.14 £46.00
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.43% -
75th Percentile - £66.42 £48.00
90th Percentile - £67.66 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK 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
England +47 72 £500 -4.76% 26
Work from Home +76 49 £468 -16.89% 10
London +58 41 £550 +4.76% 8
UK excluding London +42 36 £425 -21.30% 18
Scotland +31 14 £625 +4.17% 4
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
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +10 1 £600 +11.63% 1

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (28.97%) CICS
2 21 (19.63%) SAS
3 7 (6.54%) IIS
4 4 (3.74%) CMS
4 4 (3.74%) JBoss
5 3 (2.80%) Apache
5 3 (2.80%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.80%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.56%) Azure
2 20 (18.69%) AWS
3 4 (3.74%) OpenShift
4 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 3 (2.80%) Serverless
5 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (1.87%) SaaS
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) SAN
2 4 (3.74%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (3.74%) iSCSI
3 2 (1.87%) SNA
3 2 (1.87%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.93%) ATM
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) IDMS
2 13 (12.15%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.48%) RDBMS
5 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
5 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.61%) MySQL
7 5 (4.67%) OLTP
8 4 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.74%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.74%) Sybase ASE
9 3 (2.80%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.80%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (2.80%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.80%) Scylla
10 2 (1.87%) Big Data
10 2 (1.87%) NewSQL
10 2 (1.87%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.74%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.87%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.87%) GitLab
4 2 (1.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.93%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 33 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.56%) Finance
3 14 (13.08%) Banking
4 10 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Arabic Language
8 3 (2.80%) French Language
8 3 (2.80%) German Language
8 3 (2.80%) Japanese Language
8 3 (2.80%) Korean Language
8 3 (2.80%) Spanish Language
9 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.87%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Danish Language
10 1 (0.93%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (30.84%) Developer
2 21 (19.63%) Architect
3 18 (16.82%) Mainframe Developer
4 14 (13.08%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 9 (8.41%) DBA
6 8 (7.48%) z/OS Specialist
7 7 (6.54%) Administrator
7 7 (6.54%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.54%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.54%) DB2 Specialist
8 6 (5.61%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Lead
9 5 (4.67%) COBOL Developer
9 5 (4.67%) Consultant
9 5 (4.67%) DB2 Administrator
9 5 (4.67%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.67%) Test Architect
10 4 (3.74%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Mainframe Architect
10 4 (3.74%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) Spring
2 7 (6.54%) XML
3 6 (5.61%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.74%) Flash
4 4 (3.74%) ISPF
4 4 (3.74%) JSON
4 4 (3.74%) POSIX
5 3 (2.80%) .NET
5 3 (2.80%) EJB
5 3 (2.80%) Hibernate
5 3 (2.80%) J2EE
5 3 (2.80%) JSP
5 3 (2.80%) LDAP
5 3 (2.80%) Servlets
5 3 (2.80%) Web Services
6 2 (1.87%) SOAP
6 2 (1.87%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.87%) WebSphere MQ
6 2 (1.87%) XSD
6 2 (1.87%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 46 (42.99%) Mainframe
2 18 (16.82%) IBM Mainframe
3 8 (7.48%) Replication
4 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.61%) VSAM
5 4 (3.74%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.74%) NVMe
6 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) LPAR
7 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.93%) iSeries
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.64%) zOS
2 21 (19.63%) Linux
3 18 (16.82%) Unix
4 13 (12.15%) Windows
5 5 (4.67%) Solaris
6 4 (3.74%) AIX
6 4 (3.74%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.74%) VMS
6 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.97%) Agile
2 24 (22.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 22 (20.56%) Migration
4 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (18.69%) Scrum
5 16 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (12.15%) Performance Tuning
7 11 (10.28%) Change Data Capture
7 11 (10.28%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (9.35%) DevOps
8 10 (9.35%) High Availability
9 9 (8.41%) CI/CD
9 9 (8.41%) Data Migration
9 9 (8.41%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (8.41%) Microservices
10 8 (7.48%) Database Migration
10 8 (7.48%) ETL
10 8 (7.48%) Integration Testing
10 8 (7.48%) Operational Acceptance Testing
10 8 (7.48%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 39 (36.45%) COBOL
2 37 (34.58%) SQL
3 26 (24.30%) Java
4 25 (23.36%) REXX
5 18 (16.82%) Python
6 15 (14.02%) SELCOPY
7 14 (13.08%) CLIST
8 9 (8.41%) Perl
9 5 (4.67%) JCL
10 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.74%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.80%) Assembly Language
11 3 (2.80%) Scala
12 2 (1.87%) XPath
13 1 (0.93%) C
13 1 (0.93%) C++
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
13 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.93%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (23.36%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.43%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) Degree
4 3 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.80%) CISSP
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) SANS
5 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.87%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) GDPR
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) GRC
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
1 4 (3.74%) GPFS
1 4 (3.74%) NFS
1 4 (3.74%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (1.87%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.93%) HDFS
3 1 (0.93%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.74%) CA Endevor
2 4 (3.74%) Tivoli
2 4 (3.74%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (1.87%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.93%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 54 (50.47%) IBM
2 24 (22.43%) Oracle
3 16 (14.95%) Syncsort
4 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
5 13 (12.15%) Sybase
6 8 (7.48%) Veritas
7 6 (5.61%) Google
7 6 (5.61%) SAP
8 5 (4.67%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.67%) F5
9 4 (3.74%) Brocade
9 4 (3.74%) EMC
9 4 (3.74%) ICL
9 4 (3.74%) NetApp
9 4 (3.74%) ServiceNow
9 4 (3.74%) Sun
9 4 (3.74%) Teradata
10 3 (2.80%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.80%) CyberArk
10 3 (2.80%) Talend