DB2 Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

IBM DB2
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 49 40
Rank change year-on-year -32 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing DB2 3 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.44% 2.02% 2.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.85% 10.34% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £451 £488 -
25th Percentile £453 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% - -
75th Percentile £478 £600 -
90th Percentile £484 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £395 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -34.17% +9.09% +37.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 162 87 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 23.86% 19.55% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 57 20
10th Percentile £318 £425 £268
25th Percentile £384 £500 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £549 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% +17.03% -14.77%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £569
90th Percentile £604 £700 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.40% -4.76%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Sheffield -29 3 £463 -15.91% 2
DB2
Yorkshire

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (66.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Collibra
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) DataStage
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ISPF
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Compliance Audit
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JCL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (33.33%) RACF
1 1 (33.33%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle