DB2 Job Trends in the Midlands

IBM DB2
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring DB2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 230 227
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +106
Permanent jobs citing DB2 2 16 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.026% 0.25% 0.053%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 1.91% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £52,560 £45,625 £73,150
25th Percentile £52,800 £52,500 £73,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,600 £60,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -22.58% +47.62%
75th Percentile £57,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £57,600 £80,000 -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 704 838 1,108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.00% 13.13% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 521 471 961
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -0.19%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,302 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -5.51%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

DB2
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DB2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DB2

DB2
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 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
West Midlands +8 1 £55,200 +0.36% 1
East Midlands -7 1 £54,000 -
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Adabas
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Mainframe Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL
1 1 (50.00%) JCL
1 1 (50.00%) Natural
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Control-M
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (50.00%) Talend