IBM DB2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DB2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 549 757 939
Rank change year-on-year +208 +182 -154
Permanent jobs citing DB2 375 214 293
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 0.95% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 87 136 181
10th Percentile £34,000 £44,375 £39,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,126 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £90,995 £80,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,000 £118,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,000 £54,163 £58,000
% change year-on-year +31.09% -6.62% +22.11%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,076 22,599 42,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.44% 21.59% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12,541 13,991 21,425
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% +6.12%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +236 331 £78,126 +25.00% 26
UK excluding London +174 319 £71,000 +31.09% 18
North of England +132 116 £75,000 +41.51% 4
North West +86 94 £75,000 +41.51% 3
Work from Home +77 90 £78,126 +25.00% 10
South East +83 83 £67,000 +48.89% 3
Midlands +66 73 £77,500 +49.04% 6
East Midlands +49 65 - - 3
London +128 56 £90,000 +20.00% 8
Scotland -39 44 £70,996 +10.88% 4
Yorkshire +96 18 £35,000 -22.22% 1
West Midlands +22 8 £77,500 +109.46% 3
North East - 4 £78,126 -
South West -10 3 £41,206 -29.86%

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 18 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 14 (3.73%) CICS
3 11 (2.93%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.80%) Apache
4 3 (0.80%) MQSeries
4 3 (0.80%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 2 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.53%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) Liferay
5 2 (0.53%) Magnolia
5 2 (0.53%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.27%) SAP Portal
Business Applications
1 19 (5.07%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.80%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 249 (66.40%) Azure
2 231 (61.60%) IBM Cloud
3 117 (31.20%) Azure API Management
3 117 (31.20%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (31.20%) Azure Functions
3 117 (31.20%) Azure Logic Apps
3 117 (31.20%) Azure Service Bus
3 117 (31.20%) Serverless
4 61 (16.27%) AWS
5 31 (8.27%) GCP
6 10 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
6 10 (2.67%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 10 (2.67%) OCI
6 10 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 10 (2.67%) Route 53
7 2 (0.53%) npm
7 2 (0.53%) PaaS
8 1 (0.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.80%) DSL
2 10 (2.67%) LAN
2 10 (2.67%) WAN
3 9 (2.40%) Multicast
4 8 (2.13%) Firewall
4 8 (2.13%) Wireless
5 5 (1.33%) VPN
6 4 (1.07%) Unicast
6 4 (1.07%) VLAN
7 3 (0.80%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (69.60%) MongoDB
2 222 (59.20%) NoSQL
2 222 (59.20%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (39.20%) Relational Database
4 76 (20.27%) SQL Server
5 18 (4.80%) Big Data
5 18 (4.80%) Data Lake
5 18 (4.80%) Tableau
6 12 (3.20%) BigQuery
6 12 (3.20%) Data Hub
6 12 (3.20%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (2.67%) RDBMS
8 5 (1.33%) MySQL
9 4 (1.07%) SAP HANA
10 3 (0.80%) Easytrieve
10 3 (0.80%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.53%) Crystal Reports
11 2 (0.53%) DTS
11 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.73%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.93%) ChangeMan
3 3 (0.80%) Protractor
4 2 (0.53%) Bower
4 2 (0.53%) gulp
4 2 (0.53%) Moq
4 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.27%) Git
5 1 (0.27%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 251 (66.93%) Public Sector
2 147 (39.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 88 (23.47%) Finance
4 41 (10.93%) Social Skills
5 31 (8.27%) Banking
6 30 (8.00%) Financial Institution
7 29 (7.73%) Law
7 29 (7.73%) Marketing
8 21 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (5.07%) Legal
10 18 (4.80%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 134 (35.73%) Developer
2 126 (33.60%) Full Stack Developer
3 117 (31.20%) Azure Developer
4 104 (27.73%) Full Stack Engineer
5 103 (27.47%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (7.73%) Lead
7 27 (7.20%) Architect
8 19 (5.07%) Lead Architect
8 19 (5.07%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 19 (5.07%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.80%) Data Engineer
9 18 (4.80%) Senior
9 18 (4.80%) Software Engineering Director
10 15 (4.00%) Audit Manager
10 15 (4.00%) IT Audit Manager
10 15 (4.00%) IT Manager
11 12 (3.20%) DBA
11 12 (3.20%) Mainframe Software Engineer
11 12 (3.20%) Software Engineer
12 11 (2.93%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (62.93%) AngularJS
2 233 (62.13%) .NET
3 231 (61.60%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 230 (61.33%) HTML
5 225 (60.00%) React
6 224 (59.73%) REST
7 223 (59.47%) ASP.NET
7 223 (59.47%) ASP.NET Core
7 223 (59.47%) CSS
7 223 (59.47%) jQuery
7 223 (59.47%) Web Services
8 221 (58.93%) Backbone.js
8 221 (58.93%) Ember.js
8 221 (58.93%) Vue
9 121 (32.27%) Node.js
10 25 (6.67%) Spring
11 20 (5.33%) Kafka
12 15 (4.00%) Spring Boot
13 14 (3.73%) Angular 2
14 13 (3.47%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 231 (61.60%) Blockchain
1 231 (61.60%) Hybrid Cloud
2 221 (58.93%) Algorithms
2 221 (58.93%) Data Structures
3 114 (30.40%) e-Learning
4 49 (13.07%) Public Cloud
5 24 (6.40%) Management Information System
6 18 (4.80%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.80%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.73%) VSAM
8 13 (3.47%) Mainframe
9 12 (3.20%) Cyberattack
9 12 (3.20%) Data Fabric
10 11 (2.93%) Reference Data
11 10 (2.67%) Replication
12 8 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
14 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
15 4 (1.07%) iSeries
15 4 (1.07%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 278 (74.13%) Windows
2 272 (72.53%) Linux
3 221 (58.93%) Android
3 221 (58.93%) Apple iOS
4 35 (9.33%) Windows Server
5 20 (5.33%) Unix
6 17 (4.53%) zOS
7 9 (2.40%) Windows 10
7 9 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.80%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (70.40%) Artificial Intelligence
2 240 (64.00%) Design Patterns
3 239 (63.73%) User Experience
4 233 (62.13%) Full Stack Development
5 223 (59.47%) MVC
6 221 (58.93%) Co-Creation
6 221 (58.93%) Design Thinking
6 221 (58.93%) MVVM
6 221 (58.93%) OO
6 221 (58.93%) OOP
6 221 (58.93%) Responsive Web Design
6 221 (58.93%) SOLID
6 221 (58.93%) Web Development
7 175 (46.67%) Agile
8 139 (37.07%) Mentoring
9 135 (36.00%) DevOps
10 133 (35.47%) Coaching
11 117 (31.20%) API Management
11 117 (31.20%) Generative AI
12 104 (27.73%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 317 (84.53%) SQL
2 233 (62.13%) JavaScript
3 223 (59.47%) C#
4 181 (48.27%) Java
5 148 (39.47%) Python
6 21 (5.60%) PL/SQL
7 18 (4.80%) Scala
8 16 (4.27%) COBOL
9 15 (4.00%) JCL
10 12 (3.20%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.87%) RPG
12 4 (1.07%) REXX
13 3 (0.80%) Erlang
14 2 (0.53%) C
14 2 (0.53%) PHP
14 2 (0.53%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.53%) Ruby
14 2 (0.53%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.53%) VB
14 2 (0.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 32 (8.53%) Degree
2 19 (5.07%) CISA
3 5 (1.33%) RHCA
3 5 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
4 4 (1.07%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.80%) OCP
5 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (0.80%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.13%) SLA
2 19 (5.07%) ITGC
2 19 (5.07%) PMO
3 4 (1.07%) COBIT
4 3 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (3.73%) Time Sharing Option
2 10 (2.67%) Docker
3 9 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 8 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.13%) vSphere
5 3 (0.80%) RACF
6 2 (0.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (7.47%) Kubernetes
2 10 (2.67%) Prometheus
2 10 (2.67%) Terraform
3 3 (0.80%) MAINVIEW
3 3 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 277 (73.87%) IBM
2 239 (63.73%) Red Hat
3 101 (26.93%) Oracle
4 51 (13.60%) Microsoft
5 30 (8.00%) Databricks
6 28 (7.47%) Sybase
7 23 (6.13%) SAP
8 19 (5.07%) Google
8 19 (5.07%) Sage
9 18 (4.80%) Alteryx
9 18 (4.80%) Cognos
10 12 (3.20%) F5
11 10 (2.67%) Dynatrace
12 8 (2.13%) Citrix
12 8 (2.13%) VMware
13 7 (1.87%) Cisco
14 5 (1.33%) Juniper
15 3 (0.80%) BMC
16 2 (0.53%) OpenText
16 2 (0.53%) Pega