DB2 Contracts in the East of England

IBM DB2
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 - 120
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing DB2 7 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.75% - 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% - 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.57%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £61.95
25th Percentile £61.50 - £62.63
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £64.50
75th Percentile £66.00 - £65.63
90th Percentile - - £65.85
England median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 6.08% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 172
10th Percentile £327 £303 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £552 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £19.84 £16.15 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%
75th Percentile £65.63 £33.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.40 £68.33
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of 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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hertfordshire - 7 - - 1
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of 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 7 (100.00%) WebSphere
General
1 2 (28.57%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Solutions Architect
1 5 (71.43%) Systems Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Information Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Information Systems Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Information Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Information Systems Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Solutions Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Information Management
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Business Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Project Management
2 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Business Case
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle