DB2 Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

IBM DB2
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 41 49
Rank change year-on-year -39 +8 +12
Contract jobs citing DB2 4 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.58% 2.56% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.60% 14.52% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - £488 -
25th Percentile - £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - -
75th Percentile £469 £600 -
90th Percentile £480 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 -
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 154 62 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.22% 17.61% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 42 15
10th Percentile £318 £425 £335
25th Percentile £384 £485 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £552 £488
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +13.23% -15.95%
75th Percentile £525 £623 £700
90th Percentile £602 £700 £729
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £534 £450
% change year-on-year -11.05% +18.67% -21.74%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

DB2 job vacancy trend in Sheffield

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing DB2

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Collibra
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) DataStage
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (25.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Groovy
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) COBOL
2 1 (25.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (25.00%) RACF
1 1 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Informatica
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) IBM