DB2 Jobs in the UK excluding London

IBM DB2
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 459 633
Rank change year-on-year -79 +174 +103
Permanent jobs citing DB2 39 334 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.099% 0.45% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.87% 2.70% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 26 64 67
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £39,300
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,496 £53,325
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +34.08% -8.06%
75th Percentile £76,840 £83,759 £69,875
90th Percentile £92,987 - £85,434
UK median annual salary £65,000 £78,126 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.80% +25.00% -3.85%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,507 12,381 11,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.45% 16.60% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,809 8,108 6,590
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,850 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,394 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.03% -11.54% +8.33%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +92 14 £74,935 +4.09% 18
North of England -50 11 £32,500 -56.67% 58
West Midlands +58 9 £65,000 -16.13% 27
Midlands +14 9 £65,000 -16.13% 57
Yorkshire +51 8 £32,500 -7.14% 23
North West -81 3 - - 29
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 6
South East -4 1 £85,000 +88.89% 72
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 42
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (7.69%) CICS
1 3 (7.69%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.13%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.56%) IIS
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (2.56%) GCP
4 1 (2.56%) IaaS
4 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.56%) PaaS
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
4 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.38%) Multicast
2 5 (12.82%) SAN
3 2 (5.13%) FTP
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
4 1 (2.56%) LAN
4 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (10.26%) MaxDB
3 4 (10.26%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (10.26%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
3 4 (10.26%) SAP HANA
4 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.13%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) DataStage
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) MS Access
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) QlikView
5 1 (2.56%) QualityStage
5 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.69%) JUnit
2 2 (5.13%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Finance
3 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.95%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Advertising
6 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Aviation
7 1 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.56%) Front Office
7 1 (2.56%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Java Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Basis Support
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Support
4 4 (10.26%) SAP Support Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Support Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) DB2 Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) DB2 Systems Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Mainframe Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) Programmer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Spring
2 6 (15.38%) Middleware
2 6 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (10.26%) SAP Basis
4 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (5.13%) Hibernate
4 2 (5.13%) IBM Integration Bus
4 2 (5.13%) J2EE
4 2 (5.13%) Java EE
4 2 (5.13%) React
4 2 (5.13%) REST
4 2 (5.13%) SOAP
4 2 (5.13%) Web Services
4 2 (5.13%) XML
5 1 (2.56%) .NET
5 1 (2.56%) ISPF
5 1 (2.56%) JSON
5 1 (2.56%) Kafka
5 1 (2.56%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 6 (15.38%) Replication
3 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (7.69%) AS400
4 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
5 2 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.13%) iSeries
5 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Windows
2 8 (20.51%) Unix
3 6 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (12.82%) AIX
5 4 (10.26%) Linux
6 2 (5.13%) zOS
7 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) DevOps
1 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (20.51%) Agile
2 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
3 7 (17.95%) Project Delivery
3 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
4 6 (15.38%) Containerisation
4 6 (15.38%) Product Management
5 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (10.26%) CRM
5 4 (10.26%) Data Privacy
5 4 (10.26%) Decision-Making
5 4 (10.26%) ERP
5 4 (10.26%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.26%) Project Management
5 4 (10.26%) SAP Security
5 4 (10.26%) Scrum
5 4 (10.26%) Unit Testing
5 4 (10.26%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) Java
3 6 (15.38%) Python
4 4 (10.26%) ABAP
5 3 (7.69%) COBOL
5 3 (7.69%) JCL
5 3 (7.69%) RPG
5 3 (7.69%) RPG IV
6 2 (5.13%) Bash
6 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.13%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.56%) REXX
7 1 (2.56%) Ruby
7 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (20.51%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.56%) NCSC
1 1 (2.56%) NIST
1 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 4 (10.26%) Docker
3 1 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.56%) RACF
3 1 (2.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Control-M
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (2.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) IBM
2 11 (28.21%) Oracle
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
4 7 (17.95%) Sybase
5 5 (12.82%) Cisco
6 4 (10.26%) SAP
7 3 (7.69%) Splunk
8 2 (5.13%) Curam
8 2 (5.13%) Dynatrace
9 1 (2.56%) Adobe
9 1 (2.56%) AppDynamics
9 1 (2.56%) Broadcom
9 1 (2.56%) Cloudera
9 1 (2.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (2.56%) Imperva
9 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow