DB2 Contracts in Cheshire

IBM DB2
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 50 46
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DB2 11 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.73% 0.99% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.96% 6.67% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 2
10th Percentile £340 £444 -
25th Percentile £369 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £447 £451 -
North West median daily rate £402 £445 £375
% change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -46.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 92 75 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.49% 14.85% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 59 39
10th Percentile £305 £361 £325
25th Percentile £340 £411 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -2.63% -12.04%
75th Percentile £452 £585 £558
90th Percentile £580 £626 £589
North West median daily rate £446 £454 £480
% change year-on-year -1.71% -5.37% -5.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £49.57
% change year-on-year -25.73% -16.78% +16.00%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in Cheshire

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DB2

DB2
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -13 10 £402 -9.66%
DB2
North West

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (63.64%) WebSphere
2 6 (54.55%) CICS
3 4 (36.36%) JBoss
3 4 (36.36%) Tomcat
3 4 (36.36%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Database
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 4 (36.36%) Bitbucket
3 4 (36.36%) Selenium
4 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
4 2 (18.18%) IntelliJ
4 2 (18.18%) Maven
4 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
4 2 (18.18%) SOAtest
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) General Ledger
3 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Scrum Master
2 3 (27.27%) Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Scrum Master
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Test Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) Web Services
2 5 (45.45%) J2EE
2 5 (45.45%) RAML
2 5 (45.45%) REST
2 5 (45.45%) SOAP
2 5 (45.45%) WSDL
3 3 (27.27%) EJB
3 3 (27.27%) JSP
3 3 (27.27%) Servlets
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
4 2 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Mainframe
1 6 (54.55%) VSAM
2 5 (45.45%) Product Ownership
3 4 (36.36%) Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) SDLC
4 4 (36.36%) API Development
4 4 (36.36%) Backlog Management
4 4 (36.36%) Budget Control
4 4 (36.36%) Conflict Resolution
4 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Servant Leadership
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Coaching
6 2 (18.18%) Impact Analysis
6 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) COBOL
3 6 (54.55%) JCL
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Ab Initio
2 2 (18.18%) Informatica
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Parasoft