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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 492 522
Rank change year-on-year +79 +30 +55
Contract jobs citing DB2 118 109 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 1.50% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 66 103
10th Percentile £370 £358 £413
25th Percentile £401 £403 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -13.64% +0.92%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £650
90th Percentile £600 £723 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £425 £539
% change year-on-year +9.41% -21.11% +7.75%
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 5,518 7,284 10,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 16.88% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,811 5,197 7,526
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £423 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £771 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 143 186
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £59.30
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -32.54% +36.70%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.88 £73.41
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £81.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -25.00% -28.19% +59.14%

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 5 May 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 5 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
England +56 70 £449 -5.58% 38
UK excluding London +78 66 £465 +9.41% 31
Work from Home +51 53 £490 +6.75% 34
London +54 43 £450 -18.18% 20
Scotland +41 42 £490 -21.60% 8
North of England +29 13 £402 -9.66% 6
North West +20 11 £402 -9.66% 6
East of England - 7 - - 1
Yorkshire +16 2 £550 +17.02%
South East +36 1 £475 +32.68% 8
South West +35 1 - - 1
West Midlands +8 1 - - 2
Midlands +5 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 3

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 25 (21.19%) WebSphere
2 12 (10.17%) CICS
3 8 (6.78%) JBoss
3 8 (6.78%) Tomcat
4 6 (5.08%) Apache
4 6 (5.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.08%) WebLogic
5 4 (3.39%) SAS
6 2 (1.69%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.85%) CMS
7 1 (0.85%) Confluence
7 1 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.49%) AWS
2 19 (16.10%) Azure
3 7 (5.93%) GCP
4 5 (4.24%) Serverless
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon S3
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (2.54%) GitHub
5 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.85%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (0.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.85%) Datadog
7 1 (0.85%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) SAN
2 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.85%) LAN
2 1 (0.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (38.98%) Relational Database
2 44 (37.29%) MongoDB
3 17 (14.41%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.47%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (5.08%) Big Data
6 6 (5.08%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
9 3 (2.54%) DataStage
9 3 (2.54%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.69%) IMS/DB
11 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.85%) Data Hub
11 1 (0.85%) Easytrieve
11 1 (0.85%) Metadata
11 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.85%) QualityStage
11 1 (0.85%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 43 (36.44%) JUnit
2 8 (6.78%) Git
3 7 (5.93%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.08%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.24%) GitLab
5 5 (4.24%) JIRA
6 3 (2.54%) Mockito
7 2 (1.69%) Selenium
7 2 (1.69%) SOAtest
8 1 (0.85%) Ant
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Ivy
8 1 (0.85%) ChangeMan
8 1 (0.85%) Gradle
8 1 (0.85%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (0.85%) Maven
8 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (51.69%) Finance
1 61 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 48 (40.68%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (35.59%) Banking
4 21 (17.80%) Investment Banking
5 19 (16.10%) Front Office
6 6 (5.08%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.69%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.69%) Law
10 1 (0.85%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.85%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.85%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.85%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Developer
2 48 (40.68%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.41%) Architect
3 17 (14.41%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 17 (14.41%) SQL Developer
4 14 (11.86%) Senior
5 13 (11.02%) Senior Developer
5 13 (11.02%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (10.17%) Linux Developer
7 11 (9.32%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
7 11 (9.32%) Senior SQL Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.93%) Systems Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Information Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Information Systems Architect
10 6 (5.08%) Mainframe Developer
10 6 (5.08%) Scrum Master
10 6 (5.08%) Sybase Developer
11 4 (3.39%) Migration Architect
11 4 (3.39%) Technical Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (44.92%) Spring
2 41 (34.75%) Kafka
3 29 (24.58%) JMS
4 18 (15.25%) Spring Boot
5 17 (14.41%) Web Services
6 13 (11.02%) SOAP
7 11 (9.32%) J2EE
8 9 (7.63%) REST
9 7 (5.93%) RESTful
9 7 (5.93%) WSDL
10 6 (5.08%) EJB
10 6 (5.08%) Middleware
10 6 (5.08%) RAML
11 5 (4.24%) JSON
11 5 (4.24%) React
11 5 (4.24%) XML
12 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
12 4 (3.39%) JSP
12 4 (3.39%) Servlets
12 4 (3.39%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 42 (35.59%) Data Structures
2 30 (25.42%) Equities
3 18 (15.25%) Mainframe
4 9 (7.63%) Management Information System
5 8 (6.78%) VSAM
6 6 (5.08%) Equity Derivative
6 6 (5.08%) Private Cloud
6 6 (5.08%) Product Ownership
7 5 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (4.24%) IBM Mainframe
8 4 (3.39%) Derivative
8 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (3.39%) Reference Data
9 3 (2.54%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.69%) AS400
10 2 (1.69%) Clustering
10 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.69%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 62 (52.54%) Linux
2 27 (22.88%) Unix
3 13 (11.02%) Windows
4 7 (5.93%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.08%) zOS
6 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.85%) AIX
7 1 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (62.71%) Agile
2 57 (48.31%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (45.76%) SDLC
4 33 (27.97%) Multithreading
5 31 (26.27%) Performance Tuning
6 30 (25.42%) Open Source
7 29 (24.58%) Database Tuning
8 22 (18.64%) DevOps
9 15 (12.71%) Migration
9 15 (12.71%) Test Automation
10 13 (11.02%) Software Engineering
11 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
12 10 (8.47%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.47%) Data Management
12 10 (8.47%) ETL
12 10 (8.47%) Microservices
12 10 (8.47%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.63%) Project Management
14 8 (6.78%) Event-Driven
14 8 (6.78%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 80 (67.80%) SQL
2 67 (56.78%) Java
3 56 (47.46%) Python
4 36 (30.51%) Shell Script
5 12 (10.17%) COBOL
6 11 (9.32%) JCL
7 10 (8.47%) REXX
8 9 (7.63%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.93%) Perl
10 6 (5.08%) Bash
10 6 (5.08%) PowerShell
11 5 (4.24%) Assembly Language
11 5 (4.24%) PL/SQL
11 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.39%) Scala
13 2 (1.69%) C++
13 2 (1.69%) HLASM
13 2 (1.69%) RPG
13 2 (1.69%) RPG IV
14 1 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.78%) Degree
4 1 (0.85%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (5.08%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (8.47%) Active Directory
1 10 (8.47%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.54%) Docker
3 2 (1.69%) GPFS
3 2 (1.69%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (1.69%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (0.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.69%) Terraform
2 2 (1.69%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 1 (0.85%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.85%) TADDM
Vendors
1 53 (44.92%) Sybase
2 36 (30.51%) Oracle
3 30 (25.42%) IBM
4 7 (5.93%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.24%) Delphix
5 5 (4.24%) Google
6 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.54%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.54%) DocuSign
7 3 (2.54%) Informatica
8 2 (1.69%) Brocade
8 2 (1.69%) Databricks
8 2 (1.69%) EMC
8 2 (1.69%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.69%) NetApp
8 2 (1.69%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.69%) Splunk
8 2 (1.69%) Veritas
9 1 (0.85%) Confluent
9 1 (0.85%) StreamSets