Db2 Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IBM Db2
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Db2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 518 434
Rank change year-on-year -81 -84 +137
Permanent jobs citing Db2 16 41 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.12% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.29% 0.91% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 27 58
10th Percentile £53,125 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £55,313 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.99% +27.62%
75th Percentile £62,500 £76,840 £83,759
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,250 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £78,126
% change year-on-year - -16.80% +27.55%

All Database & 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 5,528 4,528 10,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.78% 13.47% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,737 2,857 7,323
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,897 £41,250 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,182 £57,500
% change year-on-year -1.93% +6.40% -8.00%

Db2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Db2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Db2 job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Db2
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Db2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Db2

Db2
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Db2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

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 11 July 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
North of England -38 5 £90,000 +176.92% 4
North West -5 4 £90,000 - 1
South East -27 4 £60,000 -29.41% 4
Midlands -38 4 £60,000 -7.69% 2
South West -59 3 £56,250 -
West Midlands -26 2 £60,000 -7.69%
East Midlands - 2 - - 2
North East - 1 - - 1
Db2
UK

Db2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (37.50%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) PegaRULES
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Easytrieve
3 2 (12.50%) Hazelcast
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) ChangeMan
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) Eclipse
2 2 (12.50%) IntelliJ
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 2 (12.50%) Retail
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) COBOL Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior COBOL Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Developer
3 3 (18.75%) RPG Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Pega Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 2 (12.50%) CSS
1 2 (12.50%) CSS3
1 2 (12.50%) HTML
1 2 (12.50%) HTML5
1 2 (12.50%) ISPF
1 2 (12.50%) J2EE
1 2 (12.50%) JMS
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) Middleware
1 2 (12.50%) React
1 2 (12.50%) REST
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
1 2 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) AS400
2 4 (25.00%) iSeries
2 4 (25.00%) Legacy Code
2 4 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 4 (25.00%) VSAM
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Agile
1 6 (37.50%) Migration
2 4 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (25.00%) Release Management
3 2 (12.50%) API Integration
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) ETL
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Model Validation
3 2 (12.50%) OOP
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) SDLC
3 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) COBOL
3 6 (37.50%) JCL
3 6 (37.50%) RPG
4 3 (18.75%) RPG IV
5 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
5 2 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 2 (12.50%) RPG III
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Pega