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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 353 371
Rank change year-on-year +84 +18 +10
Contract jobs citing DB2 75 31 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.15% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.60% 1.19% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 20 28
10th Percentile £358 £334 £359
25th Percentile £402 £356 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £425 £531
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -20.00% +9.54%
75th Percentile £550 £581 £605
90th Percentile £575 £739 £718
UK median daily rate £450 £473 £550
% change year-on-year -4.81% -14.05% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £61.95 - £61.84
25th Percentile £62.63 - £63.14
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - £66.42
90th Percentile £65.85 - £67.66
UK median hourly rate £66.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +29.41%

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 2,083 2,609 3,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.78% 12.36% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,837 2,398
10th Percentile £313 £313 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £561 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £673 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 110 109
10th Percentile £18.69 £13.67 £21.21
25th Percentile £22.61 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% -40.26% +67.40%
75th Percentile £65.62 £56.56 £73.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.53% -33.33% +36.52%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +51 45 £490 -10.91% 20
North of England +21 16 £402 -33.00% 15
North West +17 14 £402 -9.66% 14
Midlands 0 7 £350 -3.85% 7
East of England - 5 £550 - 9
East Midlands +11 4 £345 -22.47% 1
West Midlands +6 3 £425 +18.72% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 £500 - 1
Yorkshire +9 2 £550 -16.98%
South East +45 1 £475 +32.68% 17
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 17 (22.67%) WebSphere
2 9 (12.00%) CICS
3 8 (10.67%) JBoss
3 8 (10.67%) Tomcat
3 8 (10.67%) WebLogic
4 3 (4.00%) Apache
4 3 (4.00%) IIS
4 3 (4.00%) SAS
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.67%) AWS
2 11 (14.67%) Azure
3 4 (5.33%) Snowflake
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (4.00%) GitHub
4 3 (4.00%) Serverless
5 2 (2.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.33%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) HTTP
1 2 (2.67%) Internet
1 2 (2.67%) SAN
1 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.33%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (54.67%) Relational Database
2 33 (44.00%) MongoDB
3 12 (16.00%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.00%) RDBMS
5 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.33%) Hadoop
6 3 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.67%) MySQL
7 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.33%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.33%) DataStage
8 1 (1.33%) Easytrieve
8 1 (1.33%) Metadata
8 1 (1.33%) MS Access
8 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.33%) QualityStage
8 1 (1.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 37 (49.33%) JUnit
2 11 (14.67%) Git
3 9 (12.00%) Bitbucket
4 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.67%) Selenium
6 4 (5.33%) GitLab
7 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.00%) Eclipse
7 3 (4.00%) IntelliJ
7 3 (4.00%) Maven
7 3 (4.00%) Mockito
8 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.67%) SOAtest
General
1 40 (53.33%) Finance
2 36 (48.00%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (45.33%) Social Skills
4 26 (34.67%) Banking
5 23 (30.67%) Front Office
6 15 (20.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (6.67%) Financial Institution
8 4 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (4.00%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.67%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.33%) Law
11 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (50.67%) Developer
2 35 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 10 (13.33%) SQL Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Sybase Developer
4 8 (10.67%) Scrum Master
5 5 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Consultant
6 4 (5.33%) Tester
7 3 (4.00%) Automation Tester
7 3 (4.00%) Maximo Consultant
7 3 (4.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Agile Scrum Master
8 2 (2.67%) Cognos Support
8 2 (2.67%) Information Systems Architect
8 2 (2.67%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Platform Support Engineer
8 2 (2.67%) Senior
8 2 (2.67%) Systems Architect
8 2 (2.67%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (54.67%) Spring
2 33 (44.00%) Kafka
3 23 (30.67%) JMS
4 14 (18.67%) Web Services
5 13 (17.33%) Spring Boot
6 11 (14.67%) SOAP
7 8 (10.67%) RAML
7 8 (10.67%) REST
7 8 (10.67%) WSDL
8 6 (8.00%) J2EE
9 5 (6.67%) XML
10 4 (5.33%) EJB
10 4 (5.33%) JSP
10 4 (5.33%) Servlets
11 3 (4.00%) Hibernate
11 3 (4.00%) JSON
11 3 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
12 2 (2.67%) MSMQ
13 1 (1.33%) Java EE
13 1 (1.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (38.67%) Data Structures
2 24 (32.00%) Equities
3 11 (14.67%) Mainframe
4 8 (10.67%) Private Cloud
4 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
4 8 (10.67%) VSAM
5 7 (9.33%) Equity Derivative
6 5 (6.67%) Derivative
6 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
7 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (4.00%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.67%) Mobile Payment
8 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.33%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.33%) NVMe
9 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (54.67%) Linux
2 15 (20.00%) Unix
3 8 (10.67%) Windows
4 5 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.33%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (66.67%) Agile
2 39 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (48.00%) SDLC
4 27 (36.00%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (34.67%) Multithreading
6 24 (32.00%) Open Source
7 23 (30.67%) Database Tuning
8 16 (21.33%) Test Automation
9 13 (17.33%) DevOps
10 12 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (14.67%) Software Engineering
12 10 (13.33%) Scrum
13 8 (10.67%) API Development
13 8 (10.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 8 (10.67%) Budget Control
14 7 (9.33%) Backlog Management
14 7 (9.33%) Concurrent Programming
14 7 (9.33%) ETL
14 7 (9.33%) Servant Leadership
14 7 (9.33%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 60 (80.00%) SQL
2 50 (66.67%) Java
3 40 (53.33%) Python
4 23 (30.67%) Shell Script
5 10 (13.33%) COBOL
6 9 (12.00%) JCL
7 7 (9.33%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.67%) REXX
9 4 (5.33%) Perl
10 1 (1.33%) Assembly Language
10 1 (1.33%) CLIST
10 1 (1.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.67%) GPFS
3 1 (1.33%) Docker
3 1 (1.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (50.67%) Sybase
2 24 (32.00%) Oracle
3 15 (20.00%) IBM
4 8 (10.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.00%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.00%) Informatica
6 2 (2.67%) Brocade
6 2 (2.67%) Cognos
6 2 (2.67%) EMC
6 2 (2.67%) NetApp
6 2 (2.67%) Parasoft
6 2 (2.67%) Veritas
7 1 (1.33%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) Databricks
7 1 (1.33%) Greenplum
7 1 (1.33%) Imperva
7 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.33%) Splunk
7 1 (1.33%) Sun