DB2 Contracts in Yorkshire

IBM DB2
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 98 90
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +32
Contract jobs citing DB2 5 7 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.33% 0.46% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.75% 2.62% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile - £445 -
25th Percentile - £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% - -
75th Percentile £470 £703 -
90th Percentile £548 £738 -
England median daily rate £447 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -14.86% +3.96% -8.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 285 267 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.91% 17.64% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 182 148
10th Percentile £320 £375 £354
25th Percentile £388 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £518
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -3.29% +8.95%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £639
90th Percentile £610 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -4.63% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.76 £11.00 -
Median hourly rate £33.11 £13.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +145.26% -36.65% +6.55%
75th Percentile £34.46 - -
90th Percentile - £22.35 -
England median hourly rate £34.82 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.16% -31.82% +35.04%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in Yorkshire

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
West Yorkshire +3 3 £340 -53.10% 1
South Yorkshire -16 2 £550 -8.33% 4
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Adabas
2 1 (20.00%) Easytrieve
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) COBOL Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Adabas Natural Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (20.00%) Change Control
1 1 (20.00%) Compliance Audit
1 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (20.00%) High Availability
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) COBOL
2 4 (80.00%) JCL
3 2 (40.00%) Natural
4 1 (20.00%) CLIST
4 1 (20.00%) REXX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (20.00%) RACF
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft