IBM DB2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DB2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DB2 over the 6 months to 29 November 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 667 838 884
Rank change year-on-year +171 +46 -232
Permanent jobs citing DB2 66 253 216
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.86% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 56 188 149
10th Percentile £33,625 £42,850 £41,298
25th Percentile £40,313 £51,438 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +9.38% -1.54%
75th Percentile £74,250 £100,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £138,073 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% -3.33% -4.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DB2 is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 11,464 29,535 35,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.19% 23.47% 27.31%
Number of salaries quoted 8,647 17,891 22,551
10th Percentile £37,000 £36,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,938 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +2.04%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DB2.

Salary trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DB2 over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +156 55 £62,500 -10.71% 24
Work from Home +163 38 £62,500 - 12
UK excluding London +163 38 £45,000 -22.41% 21
London +180 27 £65,000 -27.78% 6
South East +127 16 £36,000 -37.93% 2
Scotland +60 10 £75,669 -42.15% 5
North of England +110 9 £63,500 +6.68% 9
Yorkshire +75 7 £60,000 +0.80% 3
Midlands +129 3 £73,000 +35.81% 1
East Midlands +52 3 £73,000 +35.81%
North West +105 2 £71,000 +29.09% 6

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (12.12%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.06%) CICS
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.52%) Papyrus
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (9.09%) JDE EnterpriseOne
1 6 (9.09%) JDE OneWorld
2 5 (7.58%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (21.21%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 8 (12.12%) PowerApps
3 6 (9.09%) AWS
4 5 (7.58%) GitHub
5 3 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.52%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) DNS
1 1 (1.52%) DSL
1 1 (1.52%) Firewall
1 1 (1.52%) FTP
1 1 (1.52%) HTTP
1 1 (1.52%) LAN
1 1 (1.52%) SAN
1 1 (1.52%) SMTP
1 1 (1.52%) SSH
1 1 (1.52%) VPN
1 1 (1.52%) WAN
1 1 (1.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (39.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (13.64%) MySQL
3 8 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 6 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle Database
6 4 (6.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.03%) Big Data
7 2 (3.03%) DB2 UDB
7 2 (3.03%) Easytrieve
7 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Database 10g
7 2 (3.03%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) Visual Studio
3 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.55%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Travis CI
5 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.52%) Subversion
6 1 (1.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 7 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.09%) Banking
4 6 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.03%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Law
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (36.36%) Developer
2 10 (15.15%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Operations Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Software Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 6 (9.09%) JDE Developer
5 6 (9.09%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Audit Manager
6 5 (7.58%) IT Audit Manager
6 5 (7.58%) IT Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Junior
7 4 (6.06%) Project Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Audit Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior IT Audit Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior IT Manager
7 4 (6.06%) Senior Manager
8 3 (4.55%) DB2 DBA
8 3 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) Junior Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) .NET
2 11 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 8 (12.12%) ASP.NET
3 8 (12.12%) JSON
3 8 (12.12%) REST
4 7 (10.61%) XML
5 5 (7.58%) React
6 4 (6.06%) Spring Boot
7 3 (4.55%) Kafka
7 3 (4.55%) SOAP
7 3 (4.55%) Spring
7 3 (4.55%) Web Services
8 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.03%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.03%) HTML
8 2 (3.03%) ISPF
8 2 (3.03%) JDBC
8 2 (3.03%) JPA
8 2 (3.03%) JSP
8 2 (3.03%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.67%) iSeries
2 10 (15.15%) Mainframe
2 10 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (13.64%) AS400
4 6 (9.09%) IBM Mainframe
5 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (3.03%) VSAM
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Hackathon
7 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.52%) Replication
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (46.97%) Windows
2 23 (34.85%) Linux
3 19 (28.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.61%) zOS
5 5 (7.58%) Unix
6 1 (1.52%) AIX
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.36%) Agile
2 15 (22.73%) DevOps
3 14 (21.21%) Mentoring
4 11 (16.67%) ERP
5 10 (15.15%) Change Management
6 9 (13.64%) Project Management
6 9 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 8 (12.12%) Information Security
7 8 (12.12%) IT Strategy
7 8 (12.12%) Technology Strategy
7 8 (12.12%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (10.61%) Incident Management
8 7 (10.61%) OO
8 7 (10.61%) Waterfall
9 6 (9.09%) Analytics
9 6 (9.09%) Business Strategy
9 6 (9.09%) Data Analytics
9 6 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (7.58%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 35 (53.03%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) C#
3 12 (18.18%) COBOL
3 12 (18.18%) Java
4 9 (13.64%) PL/SQL
5 8 (12.12%) JCL
5 8 (12.12%) T-SQL
5 8 (12.12%) VB.NET
6 7 (10.61%) C
6 7 (10.61%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.58%) REXX
8 3 (4.55%) Assembly Language
8 3 (4.55%) PL/1
9 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.03%) Kotlin
9 2 (3.03%) Python
9 2 (3.03%) RPG
10 1 (1.52%) Bash
10 1 (1.52%) RPG IV
10 1 (1.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (25.76%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) CISA
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 5 (7.58%) ITGC
2 5 (7.58%) PMO
3 2 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (6.06%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.06%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (4.55%) RACF
3 2 (3.03%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.52%) ACF2
4 1 (1.52%) Docker
4 1 (1.52%) IAG
4 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.03%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (1.52%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) IBM
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 20 (30.30%) Oracle
3 6 (9.09%) JD Edwards
4 5 (7.58%) Sage
4 5 (7.58%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) BMC
5 2 (3.03%) Sybase
6 1 (1.52%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.52%) Citrix
6 1 (1.52%) Cognos
6 1 (1.52%) Databricks
6 1 (1.52%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.52%) Remedy
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.52%) Sony
6 1 (1.52%) VMware