DB2 Contracts

IBM DB2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 493 512
Rank change year-on-year +95 +19 +49
Contract jobs citing DB2 121 107 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.25% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.18% 1.47% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 65 105
10th Percentile £359 £359 £416
25th Percentile £401 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £547 £625 £650
90th Percentile £598 £724 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £425 £540
% change year-on-year +9.41% -21.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 6
10th Percentile - - £61.84
25th Percentile £61.50 - £63.14
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £66.00 - £66.42
90th Percentile - - £67.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +63 72 £450 -10.00% 33
UK excluding London +85 67 £465 +9.41% 27
Work from Home +55 54 £490 +4.81% 25
London +39 45 £462 -16.00% 18
Scotland +38 43 £490 -21.60% 9
North of England +38 13 £402 -33.00% 7
North West +20 11 £402 -40.44% 7
East of England - 7 - - 1
Yorkshire +16 2 £550 -8.33%
South East +36 1 £475 +32.68% 4
Midlands +14 1 - - 3
West Midlands +6 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland -9 1 £500 - 3
South West - 1 - -

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 26 (21.49%) WebSphere
2 12 (9.92%) CICS
3 9 (7.44%) Tomcat
4 8 (6.61%) JBoss
5 6 (4.96%) Apache
5 6 (4.96%) Apache Spark
5 6 (4.96%) WebLogic
6 4 (3.31%) SAS
7 2 (1.65%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.83%) CMS
8 1 (0.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.01%) AWS
2 19 (15.70%) Azure
3 6 (4.96%) GCP
4 5 (4.13%) Serverless
5 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.48%) GitHub
5 3 (2.48%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.65%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.83%) Datadog
7 1 (0.83%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) SAN
2 1 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (38.02%) Relational Database
2 45 (37.19%) MongoDB
3 17 (14.05%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.26%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.96%) Big Data
6 6 (4.96%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.48%) DataStage
9 3 (2.48%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.65%) IMS/DB
11 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.83%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.83%) Metadata
11 1 (0.83%) MS Access
11 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.83%) QualityStage
11 1 (0.83%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 44 (36.36%) JUnit
2 7 (5.79%) Bitbucket
2 7 (5.79%) Git
3 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.13%) GitLab
4 5 (4.13%) JIRA
5 3 (2.48%) ChangeMan
5 3 (2.48%) Mockito
6 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) SOAtest
7 1 (0.83%) Ant
7 1 (0.83%) Apache Ivy
7 1 (0.83%) Gradle
7 1 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (52.89%) Finance
1 64 (52.89%) Social Skills
2 51 (42.15%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (36.36%) Banking
4 22 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 20 (16.53%) Front Office
6 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.48%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.65%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.65%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.83%) French Language
10 1 (0.83%) German Language
10 1 (0.83%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.83%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.83%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (49.59%) Developer
2 49 (40.50%) Java Developer
3 18 (14.88%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 18 (14.88%) SQL Developer
4 17 (14.05%) Architect
5 15 (12.40%) Senior
6 13 (10.74%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.74%) Senior Java Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Linux Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 11 (9.09%) Senior SQL Developer
8 9 (7.44%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.79%) Sybase Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Systems Architect
10 6 (4.96%) Information Architect
10 6 (4.96%) Information Systems Architect
10 6 (4.96%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Scrum Master
11 4 (3.31%) Migration Architect
11 4 (3.31%) Technical Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (43.80%) Spring
2 42 (34.71%) Kafka
3 30 (24.79%) JMS
4 17 (14.05%) Spring Boot
4 17 (14.05%) Web Services
5 12 (9.92%) SOAP
6 11 (9.09%) J2EE
7 9 (7.44%) REST
8 7 (5.79%) RESTful
8 7 (5.79%) WSDL
9 6 (4.96%) EJB
9 6 (4.96%) Middleware
9 6 (4.96%) RAML
10 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
10 4 (3.31%) JSON
10 4 (3.31%) JSP
10 4 (3.31%) React
10 4 (3.31%) Servlets
10 4 (3.31%) WebSphere MQ
10 4 (3.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (35.54%) Data Structures
2 31 (25.62%) Equities
3 20 (16.53%) Mainframe
4 9 (7.44%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.61%) VSAM
6 6 (4.96%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (4.96%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.13%) IBM Mainframe
8 4 (3.31%) Derivative
8 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.31%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.65%) AS400
10 2 (1.65%) Clustering
10 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.65%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 63 (52.07%) Linux
2 27 (22.31%) Unix
3 13 (10.74%) Windows
4 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.96%) zOS
6 1 (0.83%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (63.64%) Agile
2 60 (49.59%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (47.11%) SDLC
4 34 (28.10%) Multithreading
5 32 (26.45%) Performance Tuning
6 31 (25.62%) Open Source
7 30 (24.79%) Database Tuning
8 22 (18.18%) DevOps
9 15 (12.40%) Test Automation
10 14 (11.57%) Migration
11 13 (10.74%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.09%) Computer Science
13 10 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.26%) Data Management
13 10 (8.26%) ETL
13 10 (8.26%) Roadmaps
14 9 (7.44%) Microservices
14 9 (7.44%) Project Management
15 8 (6.61%) Concurrent Programming
15 8 (6.61%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (67.77%) SQL
2 67 (55.37%) Java
3 56 (46.28%) Python
4 36 (29.75%) Shell Script
5 12 (9.92%) COBOL
5 12 (9.92%) REXX
6 11 (9.09%) JCL
7 9 (7.44%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.79%) Perl
9 6 (4.96%) Bash
9 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
10 5 (4.13%) Assembly Language
10 5 (4.13%) PL/SQL
10 5 (4.13%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.31%) Scala
12 2 (1.65%) HLASM
12 2 (1.65%) RPG
12 2 (1.65%) RPG IV
13 1 (0.83%) C++
13 1 (0.83%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 10 (8.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.61%) Degree
4 1 (0.83%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.79%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.96%) QA
3 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
1 10 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.65%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) GPFS
2 2 (1.65%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (1.65%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.83%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.83%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.65%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.65%) Terraform
1 2 (1.65%) Tivoli
1 2 (1.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (0.83%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) CA Endevor
2 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.83%) TADDM
Vendors
1 54 (44.63%) Sybase
2 37 (30.58%) Oracle
3 29 (23.97%) IBM
4 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.13%) Delphix
5 5 (4.13%) Google
6 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.48%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.48%) DocuSign
7 3 (2.48%) Informatica
7 3 (2.48%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.65%) Brocade
8 2 (1.65%) Databricks
8 2 (1.65%) EMC
8 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.65%) NetApp
8 2 (1.65%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.65%) Veritas
9 1 (0.83%) Confluent
9 1 (0.83%) StreamSets