DB2 Contracts in the North West

IBM DB2
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 112 147
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing DB2 17 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.77% 0.32% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.38% 2.31% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 2
10th Percentile £349 £445 -
25th Percentile £380 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +18.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £453 £603 -
90th Percentile £563 £770 -
England median daily rate £449 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -10.30% -1.96% -6.42%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 316 347 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.38% 13.97% 16.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 241 361
10th Percentile £313 £356 £325
25th Percentile £368 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £545 £538 £594
90th Percentile £612 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 16
10th Percentile £21.02 £27.40 £28.55
25th Percentile £21.76 £36.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £44.74 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year -32.95% +11.03% -6.21%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £55.35
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.03 £64.50
England median hourly rate £34.82 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -9.57% -30.00% +40.07%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the North West over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Cheshire -8 12 £402 -9.66%
Lancashire - 4 £550 - 8
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (58.82%) WebSphere
2 7 (41.18%) CICS
3 5 (29.41%) JBoss
3 5 (29.41%) Tomcat
3 5 (29.41%) WebLogic
4 2 (11.76%) Apache
4 2 (11.76%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (11.76%) IMS/DB
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Bitbucket
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (23.53%) Selenium
4 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.76%) Eclipse
4 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
4 2 (11.76%) Maven
4 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.76%) SOAtest
General
1 10 (58.82%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) General Ledger
4 2 (11.76%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Scrum Master
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Mainframe Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Agile Scrum Master
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Maximo Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Test Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Incident Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Major Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) Web Services
2 8 (47.06%) SOAP
3 6 (35.29%) J2EE
3 6 (35.29%) RAML
3 6 (35.29%) REST
3 6 (35.29%) WSDL
4 4 (23.53%) EJB
4 4 (23.53%) JSP
4 4 (23.53%) Servlets
4 4 (23.53%) Spring
4 4 (23.53%) Spring Boot
4 4 (23.53%) XML
5 2 (11.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Mainframe
2 6 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (35.29%) VSAM
3 5 (29.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (11.76%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
2 2 (11.76%) MVS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (35.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 6 (35.29%) Scrum
3 6 (35.29%) SDLC
4 5 (29.41%) API Development
4 5 (29.41%) Backlog Management
4 5 (29.41%) Budget Control
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Conflict Resolution
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Servant Leadership
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Situational Awareness
5 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (11.76%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Java
3 8 (47.06%) JCL
4 6 (35.29%) COBOL
4 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) REXX
6 2 (11.76%) PL/1
6 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Oracle
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) IBM
4 2 (11.76%) Ab Initio
4 2 (11.76%) Informatica
4 2 (11.76%) Parasoft
4 2 (11.76%) Syncsort