IBM DB2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 600 542 779
Rank change year-on-year -58 +237 +151
Permanent jobs citing DB2 84 377 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.38% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.13% 2.08% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 60 88 133
10th Percentile £40,250 £34,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,126 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +25.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,250 £90,498 £76,250
90th Percentile £77,031 £95,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £71,000 £53,325
% change year-on-year -8.45% +33.15% -8.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 14 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 30 April 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
England -57 68 £65,000 -16.80% 33
Work from Home +136 45 £65,000 -16.80% 25
London +93 45 £65,000 -27.78% 18
UK excluding London -61 38 £65,000 -8.45% 27
Scotland +97 12 £74,870 +5.46% 9
North of England -21 11 £32,500 -56.67% 7
Yorkshire +62 10 £32,500 -7.14%
West Midlands +52 9 £65,000 -16.13% 2
Midlands -3 9 £65,000 -16.13% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 £50,000 - 3
South West +113 1 - -
South East +28 1 £85,000 +51.79% 4
North West -60 1 - - 7
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 1

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 10 (11.90%) CICS
2 3 (3.57%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.38%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.38%) WebLogic
3 2 (2.38%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) Azure
2 10 (11.90%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 7 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.19%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) PaaS
6 1 (1.19%) SaaS
6 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Multicast
2 5 (5.95%) SAN
3 4 (4.76%) FTP
4 1 (1.19%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) LAN
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (48.81%) SQL Server
2 31 (36.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 25 (29.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (15.48%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.33%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.76%) MaxDB
6 4 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (4.76%) SAP HANA
7 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.38%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.19%) Adabas
9 1 (1.19%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.19%) DataStage
9 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.19%) MS Access
9 1 (1.19%) QlikView
9 1 (1.19%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.71%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.14%) Git
4 4 (4.76%) JUnit
5 3 (3.57%) Eclipse
5 3 (3.57%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.38%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.38%) Postman
6 2 (2.38%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.19%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (1.19%) NetBeans
General
1 49 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (42.86%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.90%) Banking
5 5 (5.95%) Advertising
6 3 (3.57%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.38%) Front Office
7 2 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Aviation
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (40.48%) Senior
2 32 (38.10%) Analyst
3 31 (36.90%) Support Analyst
4 30 (35.71%) Applications Support
4 30 (35.71%) Applications Support Analyst
5 25 (29.76%) Senior Analyst
6 24 (28.57%) Senior Applications Support
6 24 (28.57%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
6 24 (28.57%) Senior Support Analyst
7 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
8 9 (10.71%) Developer
8 9 (10.71%) Support Engineer
9 7 (8.33%) Consultant
10 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (7.14%) Java Developer
10 6 (7.14%) Lead
11 4 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
11 4 (4.76%) SAP Support
11 4 (4.76%) SAP Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (39.29%) .NET
2 10 (11.90%) ASP.NET
3 9 (10.71%) .NET Framework
3 9 (10.71%) Web Services
4 8 (9.52%) Spring
5 6 (7.14%) SOAP
5 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 5 (5.95%) JSON
7 4 (4.76%) ISPF
7 4 (4.76%) Middleware
7 4 (4.76%) SAP Basis
7 4 (4.76%) XML
8 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.57%) Hibernate
8 3 (3.57%) J2EE
8 3 (3.57%) React
8 3 (3.57%) REST
9 2 (2.38%) IBM Integration Bus
9 2 (2.38%) Kafka
9 2 (2.38%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (26.19%) Legacy Applications
2 14 (16.67%) Mainframe
3 6 (7.14%) Replication
4 5 (5.95%) AS400
4 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.76%) IBM Mainframe
5 4 (4.76%) iSeries
6 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.38%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.19%) DataPower
8 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 44 (52.38%) Windows
2 12 (14.29%) zOS
3 11 (13.10%) Unix
4 8 (9.52%) Linux
5 6 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (5.95%) AIX
7 1 (1.19%) Android
7 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) Customer-Centricity
1 25 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (27.38%) Mentoring
3 22 (26.19%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 19 (22.62%) DevOps
5 14 (16.67%) Agile
5 14 (16.67%) ITSM
5 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 12 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 11 (13.10%) Change Management
7 11 (13.10%) Problem Management
8 10 (11.90%) Service Delivery
9 9 (10.71%) Application Security
9 9 (10.71%) Proactive Maintenance
10 8 (9.52%) Decision-Making
10 8 (9.52%) Project Delivery
11 7 (8.33%) Customer Service
11 7 (8.33%) ITIL
11 7 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (70.24%) SQL
2 33 (39.29%) PL/SQL
3 32 (38.10%) C#
4 31 (36.90%) VB.NET
5 24 (28.57%) Java
6 10 (11.90%) COBOL
7 9 (10.71%) JCL
7 9 (10.71%) T-SQL
8 8 (9.52%) Python
9 5 (5.95%) RPG
9 5 (5.95%) RPG IV
10 4 (4.76%) ABAP
10 4 (4.76%) Bash
10 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
11 3 (3.57%) REXX
11 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.38%) Assembly Language
13 1 (1.19%) Natural
13 1 (1.19%) PL/1
13 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (17.86%) Degree
2 8 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) DV Cleared
3 2 (2.38%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.19%) NCSC
1 1 (1.19%) NIST
1 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 4 (4.76%) Docker
3 2 (2.38%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (2.38%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.19%) ACF2
4 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (4.76%) CA Endevor
1 4 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Ansible
2 2 (2.38%) Control-M
2 2 (2.38%) MAINVIEW
2 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.19%) CA Service Virtualization
3 1 (1.19%) Grafana
3 1 (1.19%) Kibana
3 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 32 (38.10%) IBM
3 15 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 12 (14.29%) Oracle
5 10 (11.90%) Sybase
6 7 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 5 (5.95%) Cisco
8 4 (4.76%) SAP
9 2 (2.38%) BMC
9 2 (2.38%) Curam
9 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
9 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.38%) Splunk
10 1 (1.19%) Adobe
10 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.19%) Cincom
10 1 (1.19%) Cloudera
10 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.19%) Imperva
10 1 (1.19%) Syncsort