DB2 Contracts in the East Midlands

IBM DB2
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 62 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -1
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.18% 0.52% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.37% 3.42% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% -11.00% -
England median daily rate £447 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.89% -9.52% -4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 73 117 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.25% 15.18% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 82 119
10th Percentile £312 £290 £223
25th Percentile £358 £356 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -5.88% -3.13%
75th Percentile £510 £505 £500
90th Percentile £541 £683 £651
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 2
10th Percentile £18.26 £13.26 £19.80
25th Percentile £18.35 - £20.92
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £23.40
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -40.17% -33.14%
75th Percentile £21.25 £21.30 £25.26
90th Percentile £22.30 £35.12 £25.99
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.88% -30.43% +32.56%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the East Midlands

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the East Midlands

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the East Midlands

DB2
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -3 1 £340 -23.60%
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) COBOL
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle