DB2 Job Trends in London

IBM DB2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring DB2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 390 435
Rank change year-on-year +49 +45 +167
Permanent jobs citing DB2 41 39 16
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.25% 0.090%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.71% 1.06% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 21 19 12
10th Percentile - £41,250 £57,875
25th Percentile £82,500 £44,125 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £65,000 £63,250
Median % change year-on-year +57.69% +2.77% -29.72%
75th Percentile £110,000 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £70,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £95,000 £63,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +49.02% +2.00% -10.71%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
London

DB2 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,400 3,672 3,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.46% 23.38% 21.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 2,240 3,059
10th Percentile £43,125 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.59% -2.67%
75th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £130,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

DB2 job vacancy trend in London

DB2
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2

DB2
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DB2 in London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DB2 in London

DB2
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the London region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East London - 6 £85,000 -
Central London +22 1 - -
South London - 1 £55,200 - 2
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (41.46%) Tomcat
1 17 (41.46%) WebSphere
2 16 (39.02%) WebSphere Application Server
3 11 (26.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (21.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Amazon S3
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.07%) Route 53
3 7 (17.07%) Serverless
4 6 (14.63%) Amazon ECR
4 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (14.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (82.93%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (48.78%) SQL Server
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.44%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.44%) IMS/DB
4 1 (2.44%) Metadata
4 1 (2.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Cucumber
1 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
1 13 (31.71%) Selenium
1 13 (31.71%) TeamCity
2 11 (26.83%) Bitbucket
2 11 (26.83%) JIRA
3 2 (4.88%) webpack
General
1 32 (78.05%) Banking
2 21 (51.22%) Finance
3 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
4 10 (24.39%) Investment Banking
5 6 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.32%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (4.88%) Retail
8 1 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Applications Support
2 16 (39.02%) Linux Support
3 14 (34.15%) Developer
4 12 (29.27%) Infrastructure Support
4 12 (29.27%) Java Developer
5 10 (24.39%) Unix Support
6 7 (17.07%) Agile Developer
6 7 (17.07%) Agile Java Developer
6 7 (17.07%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) Linux Support Engineer
9 4 (9.76%) Consultant
9 4 (9.76%) Lead
9 4 (9.76%) Senior
10 3 (7.32%) Maximo Consultant
11 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (39.02%) LAPP Stack
1 16 (39.02%) LDAP
1 16 (39.02%) WebSphere MQ
2 13 (31.71%) CSS
2 13 (31.71%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (31.71%) HTML
2 13 (31.71%) React
2 13 (31.71%) RESTful
3 11 (26.83%) Gherkin
3 11 (26.83%) Node.js
4 3 (7.32%) Express.js
4 3 (7.32%) Web Services
5 2 (4.88%) CSS3
5 2 (4.88%) HTML5
5 2 (4.88%) Sass
6 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.44%) Middleware
6 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (39.02%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (31.71%) Greenfield Project
3 11 (26.83%) Management Information System
4 5 (12.20%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.88%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.44%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
1 18 (43.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 18 (43.90%) Unix
1 18 (43.90%) Windows
2 2 (4.88%) AIX
3 1 (2.44%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (41.46%) Agile
1 17 (41.46%) ITIL
2 16 (39.02%) Change Management
2 16 (39.02%) Release Management
2 16 (39.02%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (34.15%) Scrum
4 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
4 13 (31.71%) Design Patterns
4 13 (31.71%) Dynamic Code Analysis
4 13 (31.71%) Front End Development
4 13 (31.71%) Microservices
4 13 (31.71%) Software Engineering
4 13 (31.71%) Static Code Analysis
4 13 (31.71%) Test Automation
5 11 (26.83%) BDD
5 11 (26.83%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (26.83%) Epics
5 11 (26.83%) Integration Testing
5 11 (26.83%) Unit Testing
5 11 (26.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (51.22%) Java
1 21 (51.22%) Python
2 14 (34.15%) SQL
3 13 (31.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.32%) RPG
5 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) COBOL
6 1 (2.44%) JCL
6 1 (2.44%) PL/1
6 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) AWS Certification
1 17 (41.46%) Degree
2 16 (39.02%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (7.32%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) CISA
4 1 (2.44%) CISSP
4 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (39.02%) SLA
2 1 (2.44%) COBIT
2 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.44%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.44%) Control-M
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (60.98%) IBM
2 17 (41.46%) Red Hat
3 11 (26.83%) ServiceNow
4 9 (21.95%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.44%) BMC
5 1 (2.44%) Citrix
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Syncsort
5 1 (2.44%) Talend