DB2 Contracts in Sheffield

IBM DB2
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 52 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 -23 +20
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DB2 2 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 0.35% 1.46% 4.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.63% 6.32% 45.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £575 -
% change year-on-year -21.74% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 123 95 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 21.32% 23.17% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 67 18
10th Percentile £326 £411 £328
25th Percentile £380 £500 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £554 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% +10.80% -2.44%
75th Percentile £510 £600 £669
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -1.96%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 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 and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) CICS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Compliance Audit
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (50.00%) RACF
1 1 (50.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM