DB2 Contracts in the North of England

IBM DB2
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 153 179 203
Rank change year-on-year +26 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing DB2 13 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 0.86% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 3
10th Percentile £378 - £395
25th Percentile £380 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.06% +4.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £453 £619 £550
90th Percentile £556 £688 £565
England median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North 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
North West +23 11 £402 -9.66% 6
Yorkshire +9 2 £550 -8.33%
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 (53.85%) WebSphere
2 6 (46.15%) CICS
3 4 (30.77%) JBoss
3 4 (30.77%) Tomcat
3 4 (30.77%) WebLogic
4 1 (7.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.69%) Easytrieve
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Bitbucket
1 4 (30.77%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 2 (15.38%) SOAtest
General
1 9 (69.23%) Banking
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) General Ledger
5 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Scrum Master
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Incident Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Java Scrum Master
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Web Services
2 6 (46.15%) J2EE
3 4 (30.77%) EJB
3 4 (30.77%) JSP
3 4 (30.77%) RAML
3 4 (30.77%) REST
3 4 (30.77%) Servlets
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 4 (30.77%) WSDL
4 3 (23.08%) JSON
5 2 (15.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (61.54%) Mainframe
2 5 (38.46%) VSAM
3 4 (30.77%) Private Cloud
3 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (15.38%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (7.69%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) API Development
2 4 (30.77%) Backlog Management
2 4 (30.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (30.77%) Budget Control
2 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
2 4 (30.77%) SDLC
3 3 (23.08%) Conflict Resolution
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (15.38%) API Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
4 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) COBOL
1 7 (53.85%) Java
2 6 (46.15%) JCL
3 5 (38.46%) REXX
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Assembly Language
5 1 (7.69%) CLIST
5 1 (7.69%) Python
5 1 (7.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
3 2 (15.38%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Parasoft
4 1 (7.69%) Cloudera
4 1 (7.69%) CyberArk
4 1 (7.69%) Imperva
4 1 (7.69%) Splunk