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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 761 925
Rank change year-on-year +263 +164 -97
Permanent jobs citing DB2 376 126 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.56% 0.75% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 77 84 205
10th Percentile £43,482 £27,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,126 £55,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.14% -10.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £69,813 £87,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,264 £116,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £51,250 £58,000
% change year-on-year +21.95% -11.64% +16.00%

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 14,713 16,902 48,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 20.95% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,555 11,871 21,175
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,942 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +247 348 £78,126 +42.05% 15
UK excluding London +165 300 £62,500 +21.95% 10
North of England +93 98 £75,000 +42.86%
South East +74 91 £45,000 +11.11% 2
North West +66 85 £76,563 +45.83%
Work from Home +77 83 £78,126 +46.51% 9
Midlands +43 79 £68,750 -5.82% 7
East Midlands +40 72 - -
London +118 69 £90,000 +38.46% 8
Scotland -35 21 £71,991 -4.86%
Yorkshire +66 11 £35,000 -37.22%
South West -2 11 £41,206 -22.12%
West Midlands -7 7 £68,750 - 7
North East - 2 £78,126 -

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 12 (3.19%) WebSphere
2 11 (2.93%) CICS
3 4 (1.06%) MQSeries
3 4 (1.06%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.27%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 5 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (6.12%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (1.60%) Maximo
3 1 (0.27%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.27%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 255 (67.82%) Azure
2 253 (67.29%) IBM Cloud
3 125 (33.24%) Azure API Management
3 125 (33.24%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (33.24%) Azure Functions
3 125 (33.24%) Azure Logic Apps
3 125 (33.24%) Azure Service Bus
3 125 (33.24%) Serverless
4 38 (10.11%) AWS
5 24 (6.38%) GCP
6 12 (3.19%) Amazon ECR
6 12 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (3.19%) Amazon S3
6 12 (3.19%) OCI
6 12 (3.19%) OpenShift
6 12 (3.19%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.39%) LAN
1 9 (2.39%) WAN
2 8 (2.13%) Firewall
2 8 (2.13%) Wireless
3 5 (1.33%) Multicast
3 5 (1.33%) SAN
3 5 (1.33%) VPN
4 4 (1.06%) HTTP
4 4 (1.06%) Unicast
4 4 (1.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 265 (70.48%) MongoDB
2 241 (64.10%) NoSQL
2 241 (64.10%) PostgreSQL
3 150 (39.89%) Relational Database
4 62 (16.49%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (3.19%) BigQuery
5 12 (3.19%) Data Hub
5 12 (3.19%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.19%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.33%) Big Data
7 4 (1.06%) MySQL
7 4 (1.06%) Oracle Database
7 4 (1.06%) SAP HANA
8 2 (0.53%) GIS
9 1 (0.27%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 13 (3.46%) Jenkins
2 11 (2.93%) ChangeMan
3 1 (0.27%) Protractor
General
1 273 (72.61%) Public Sector
2 145 (38.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 75 (19.95%) Finance
4 50 (13.30%) Social Skills
5 16 (4.26%) Banking
6 12 (3.19%) Financial Institution
6 12 (3.19%) Legal
7 11 (2.93%) Law
7 11 (2.93%) Marketing
8 8 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.27%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (38.03%) Developer
2 134 (35.64%) Full Stack Developer
3 125 (33.24%) Azure Developer
4 116 (30.85%) Full Stack Engineer
5 108 (28.72%) Azure Engineer
6 26 (6.91%) Lead
7 23 (6.12%) Senior
8 20 (5.32%) Architect
9 17 (4.52%) Audit Manager
9 17 (4.52%) IT Audit Manager
9 17 (4.52%) IT Manager
10 14 (3.72%) Java Developer
11 13 (3.46%) Assistant IT Manager
11 13 (3.46%) IT Assistant
12 12 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Lead Architect
12 12 (3.19%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.19%) Mainframe Software Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 253 (67.29%) .NET
2 252 (67.02%) HTML
3 251 (66.76%) AngularJS
4 248 (65.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 246 (65.43%) CSS
6 243 (64.63%) Web Services
7 241 (64.10%) ASP.NET
7 241 (64.10%) ASP.NET Core
7 241 (64.10%) Backbone.js
7 241 (64.10%) Ember.js
7 241 (64.10%) jQuery
7 241 (64.10%) React
7 241 (64.10%) REST
7 241 (64.10%) Vue
8 126 (33.51%) Node.js
9 23 (6.12%) Spring
10 12 (3.19%) Spring XD
11 11 (2.93%) Spring Boot
12 10 (2.66%) Angular 2
12 10 (2.66%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 253 (67.29%) Blockchain
1 253 (67.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 241 (64.10%) Algorithms
2 241 (64.10%) Data Structures
3 128 (34.04%) e-Learning
4 24 (6.38%) Public Cloud
5 13 (3.46%) Mainframe
6 12 (3.19%) Cyberattack
6 12 (3.19%) Data Fabric
7 11 (2.93%) Reference Data
7 11 (2.93%) VSAM
8 7 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.60%) Replication
10 5 (1.33%) Clustering
10 5 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.06%) AS400
12 3 (0.80%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 308 (81.91%) Linux
2 303 (80.59%) Windows
3 241 (64.10%) Android
3 241 (64.10%) Apple iOS
4 39 (10.37%) Windows Server
5 28 (7.45%) Unix
6 14 (3.72%) zOS
7 9 (2.39%) AIX
8 8 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.33%) Windows 10
9 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.27%) Solaris
10 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (71.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 256 (68.09%) Full Stack Development
3 253 (67.29%) Design Patterns
4 241 (64.10%) Co-Creation
4 241 (64.10%) Design Thinking
4 241 (64.10%) MVC
4 241 (64.10%) MVVM
4 241 (64.10%) OO
4 241 (64.10%) OOP
4 241 (64.10%) Responsive Web Design
4 241 (64.10%) SOLID
4 241 (64.10%) User Experience
4 241 (64.10%) Web Development
5 168 (44.68%) Agile
6 153 (40.69%) Mentoring
7 140 (37.23%) Coaching
8 139 (36.97%) DevOps
9 125 (33.24%) API Management
9 125 (33.24%) Generative AI
10 116 (30.85%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 309 (82.18%) SQL
2 253 (67.29%) JavaScript
3 241 (64.10%) C#
4 170 (45.21%) Java
5 133 (35.37%) Python
6 13 (3.46%) COBOL
7 12 (3.19%) JCL
8 7 (1.86%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.33%) RPG
10 3 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.27%) ABAP
11 1 (0.27%) Erlang
11 1 (0.27%) REXX
11 1 (0.27%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 33 (8.78%) Degree
2 23 (6.12%) CISA
3 6 (1.60%) Security Cleared
4 5 (1.33%) RHCA
4 5 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 3 (0.80%) ACCA
5 3 (0.80%) CIPFA
5 3 (0.80%) OCP
5 3 (0.80%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (0.80%) QiCA
6 2 (0.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.53%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.27%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.12%) ITGC
2 20 (5.32%) PMO
3 10 (2.66%) SLA
4 5 (1.33%) QA
5 4 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.53%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (3.19%) Docker
2 11 (2.93%) Time Sharing Option
3 9 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (2.13%) vSphere
5 5 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.53%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.27%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 12 (3.19%) Kubernetes
1 12 (3.19%) Prometheus
1 12 (3.19%) Terraform
2 3 (0.80%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.27%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.27%) Nagios
3 1 (0.27%) nmon
Vendors
1 293 (77.93%) IBM
2 261 (69.41%) Red Hat
3 86 (22.87%) Oracle
4 51 (13.56%) Microsoft
5 27 (7.18%) SAP
6 23 (6.12%) Sage
7 12 (3.19%) Databricks
7 12 (3.19%) Dynatrace
7 12 (3.19%) F5
7 12 (3.19%) Google
7 12 (3.19%) Sybase
8 9 (2.39%) VMware
9 8 (2.13%) Citrix
10 6 (1.60%) Cisco
11 5 (1.33%) Juniper
11 5 (1.33%) Sony
12 1 (0.27%) CA
12 1 (0.27%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds