DB2 Job Trends in the South West

IBM DB2
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DB2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 189 -
Rank change year-on-year +14 - -
Permanent jobs citing DB2 3 9 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.061% 0.20% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.65% 1.22% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - -
75th Percentile £58,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £90,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -4.00% -10.71%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 464 736 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.43% 16.10% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 283 362 649
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,250 £35,733
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,663 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -3.20%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in the South West

DB2
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DB2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DB2

DB2
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 2 - - 1
Devon - 1 £55,200 - 1
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (33.33%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Parquet
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) EJB
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SEO
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Control-M
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) BMC
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Talend