DB2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM DB2
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 269 359 402
Rank change year-on-year +90 +43 -4
Contract jobs citing DB2 67 40 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.32% 1.54% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 27
10th Percentile £380 £343 £365
25th Percentile £408 £372 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £445 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -17.59% +8.00%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £638
90th Percentile £575 £722 £727
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 6
10th Percentile - - £61.84
25th Percentile £61.50 - £63.14
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - £66.42
90th Percentile £66.00 - £67.66
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +41 43 £490 -21.60% 17
North of England +26 13 £402 -23.06% 37
North West +23 11 £402 -9.66% 19
East of England - 7 - - 25
Yorkshire +9 2 £550 -8.33% 14
South East +39 1 £475 +32.68% 39
Midlands +8 1 - - 34
West Midlands +4 1 - - 19
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 - 5
South West - 1 - - 18
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (23.88%) WebSphere
2 7 (10.45%) CICS
3 5 (7.46%) JBoss
3 5 (7.46%) Tomcat
3 5 (7.46%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.48%) SAS
5 1 (1.49%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.91%) AWS
2 9 (13.43%) Azure
3 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (4.48%) GitHub
3 3 (4.48%) Serverless
3 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.99%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.49%) Fivetran
5 1 (1.49%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) SAN
2 1 (1.49%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.49%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (46.27%) Relational Database
2 30 (44.78%) MongoDB
3 6 (8.96%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.97%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.49%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.49%) DataStage
6 1 (1.49%) Easytrieve
6 1 (1.49%) Metadata
6 1 (1.49%) MS Access
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) QualityStage
6 1 (1.49%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (49.25%) JUnit
2 6 (8.96%) Bitbucket
3 5 (7.46%) Git
4 4 (5.97%) GitLab
4 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.48%) JIRA
5 3 (4.48%) Mockito
6 2 (2.99%) Selenium
6 2 (2.99%) SOAtest
General
1 32 (47.76%) Finance
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 30 (44.78%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (34.33%) Banking
4 20 (29.85%) Front Office
5 11 (16.42%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.99%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.99%) Law
9 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (56.72%) Developer
2 35 (52.24%) Java Developer
3 9 (13.43%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 7 (10.45%) SQL Developer
4 7 (10.45%) Sybase Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.96%) Systems Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Information Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Information Systems Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Scrum Master
7 2 (2.99%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (2.99%) Information Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Information Systems Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Mainframe Consultant
7 2 (2.99%) Mainframe Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (2.99%) Solutions Analyst
7 2 (2.99%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (55.22%) Spring
2 31 (46.27%) Kafka
3 19 (28.36%) JMS
4 16 (23.88%) Spring Boot
5 9 (13.43%) J2EE
6 8 (11.94%) REST
6 8 (11.94%) SOAP
6 8 (11.94%) Web Services
7 5 (7.46%) RAML
7 5 (7.46%) WSDL
8 4 (5.97%) EJB
8 4 (5.97%) JSP
8 4 (5.97%) Servlets
9 3 (4.48%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.48%) JSON
9 3 (4.48%) Middleware
9 3 (4.48%) Spring Cloud
10 2 (2.99%) MSMQ
10 2 (2.99%) XML
11 1 (1.49%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 28 (41.79%) Data Structures
2 20 (29.85%) Equities
3 9 (13.43%) Mainframe
4 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
5 6 (8.96%) Equity Derivative
5 6 (8.96%) VSAM
6 5 (7.46%) Private Cloud
6 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
7 4 (5.97%) Derivative
8 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
8 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.99%) Mobile Payment
9 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.49%) Client/Server
10 1 (1.49%) Clustering
10 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (1.49%) IBM Mainframe
10 1 (1.49%) Replication
10 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (55.22%) Linux
2 16 (23.88%) Unix
3 4 (5.97%) Windows
4 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (73.13%) Agile
2 40 (59.70%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (49.25%) SDLC
4 23 (34.33%) Multithreading
5 20 (29.85%) Open Source
5 20 (29.85%) Performance Tuning
6 19 (28.36%) Database Tuning
7 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
7 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
8 8 (11.94%) Concurrent Programming
8 8 (11.94%) Information Management
9 7 (10.45%) DevOps
9 7 (10.45%) Microservices
10 6 (8.96%) Business Analysis
10 6 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (8.96%) Event-Driven
10 6 (8.96%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.96%) Scrum
11 5 (7.46%) Backlog Management
11 5 (7.46%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (79.10%) SQL
2 47 (70.15%) Java
3 30 (44.78%) Python
4 21 (31.34%) Shell Script
5 7 (10.45%) COBOL
6 6 (8.96%) JCL
6 6 (8.96%) REXX
7 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.48%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.99%) Perl
10 1 (1.49%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.49%) CLIST
10 1 (1.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (4.48%) QA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Active Directory
1 8 (11.94%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.99%) GPFS
3 1 (1.49%) Docker
3 1 (1.49%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 35 (52.24%) Sybase
2 16 (23.88%) Oracle
3 10 (14.93%) IBM
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.48%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.48%) DocuSign
5 3 (4.48%) Informatica
5 3 (4.48%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.99%) Brocade
6 2 (2.99%) EMC
6 2 (2.99%) NetApp
6 2 (2.99%) Parasoft
6 2 (2.99%) Veritas
7 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) SAP
7 1 (1.49%) Splunk
7 1 (1.49%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.49%) Sun