DB2 Contracts in England

IBM DB2
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DB2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DB2 over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 492 530
Rank change year-on-year +40 +38 -30
Contract jobs citing DB2 79 148 248
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.27% 1.72% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 75 168
10th Percentile £350 £394 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +0.89%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £738 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,240 8,581 13,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.13% 17.81% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,505 6,174 10,128
10th Percentile £355 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 159 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.22% +27.78% +83.67%
75th Percentile £58.68 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £79.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +75.24%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 43 £550 +4.76% 7
Midlands +36 16 £364 -27.20% 3
West Midlands - 12 £358 - 2
South East +31 8 £358 -37.05% 2
North of England +13 7 £445 +1.71% 4
North West +20 5 £445 +18.67% 1
East Midlands +16 4 £445 -11.00% 1
Yorkshire -4 2 £470 -12.56% 3
South West 0 1 - -
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 20 (25.32%) CICS
2 14 (17.72%) SAS
3 4 (5.06%) CMS
4 3 (3.80%) IIS
5 2 (2.53%) JBoss
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.27%) Apache
6 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.27%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (6.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.53%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 22 (27.85%) AWS
2 17 (21.52%) Azure
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 5 (6.33%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.06%) Serverless
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) IDMS
2 12 (15.19%) SQL Server
3 11 (13.92%) Relational Database
4 9 (11.39%) RDBMS
5 7 (8.86%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.33%) MySQL
6 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.33%) Sybase ASE
7 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
7 4 (5.06%) OLTP
7 4 (5.06%) SAP HANA
8 3 (3.80%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.80%) IBM InfoSphere
8 3 (3.80%) Scylla
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.53%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.53%) NewSQL
9 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (16.46%) Git
2 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.53%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.27%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.25%) Banking
2 16 (20.25%) Finance
3 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Arabic Language
6 2 (2.53%) French Language
6 2 (2.53%) German Language
6 2 (2.53%) Japanese Language
6 2 (2.53%) Korean Language
6 2 (2.53%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.27%) Danish Language
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (31.65%) Developer
2 20 (25.32%) Architect
3 16 (20.25%) Mainframe Developer
4 12 (15.19%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 10 (12.66%) DBA
6 9 (11.39%) Data Architect
7 8 (10.13%) AWS Architect
7 8 (10.13%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (7.59%) Administrator
8 6 (7.59%) COBOL Developer
9 5 (6.33%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (5.06%) Consultant
10 4 (5.06%) DB2 Administrator
10 4 (5.06%) Sybase DBA
11 3 (3.80%) Backend Developer
11 3 (3.80%) DB2 DBA
11 3 (3.80%) Java Technical Architect
11 3 (3.80%) Lead
11 3 (3.80%) Senior
11 3 (3.80%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) .NET
1 6 (7.59%) React
1 6 (7.59%) Spring
1 6 (7.59%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.06%) ISPF
3 3 (3.80%) SOAP
3 3 (3.80%) Web Services
3 3 (3.80%) XML
4 2 (2.53%) JSON
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
4 2 (2.53%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (2.53%) XSD
4 2 (2.53%) XSLT
5 1 (1.27%) EJB
5 1 (1.27%) J2EE
5 1 (1.27%) JSP
5 1 (1.27%) LDAP
5 1 (1.27%) Middleware
5 1 (1.27%) SAP Basis
5 1 (1.27%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (39.24%) Mainframe
2 13 (16.46%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (11.39%) Replication
4 8 (10.13%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (8.86%) Public Cloud
6 5 (6.33%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.53%) Data Fabric
8 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.53%) LPAR
8 2 (2.53%) VSAM
9 1 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.27%) iSeries
9 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
9 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (34.18%) zOS
2 19 (24.05%) Linux
3 10 (12.66%) Unix
4 8 (10.13%) Windows
5 5 (6.33%) Android
5 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
6 4 (5.06%) VMS
7 3 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.80%) Solaris
8 2 (2.53%) AIX
9 1 (1.27%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.65%) Agile
2 18 (22.78%) Requirements Gathering
3 15 (18.99%) Migration
3 15 (18.99%) Scrum
4 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (15.19%) Change Data Capture
6 10 (12.66%) Microservices
7 9 (11.39%) Data Migration
7 9 (11.39%) Task Automation
8 8 (10.13%) ETL
8 8 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (8.86%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (8.86%) Database Migration
9 7 (8.86%) Incident Management
9 7 (8.86%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 7 (8.86%) Waterfall
10 6 (7.59%) API Design
10 6 (7.59%) Data Architecture
10 6 (7.59%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) COBOL
2 23 (29.11%) SQL
3 19 (24.05%) Java
4 16 (20.25%) REXX
5 12 (15.19%) SELCOPY
6 11 (13.92%) CLIST
7 8 (10.13%) Python
8 6 (7.59%) C
9 5 (6.33%) Perl
9 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
10 3 (3.80%) JCL
11 2 (2.53%) XPath
12 1 (1.27%) C++
12 1 (1.27%) Natural
12 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (22.78%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CISSP
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) GRC
3 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (6.33%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.53%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) CA Endevor
2 2 (2.53%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (2.53%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 40 (50.63%) IBM
2 21 (26.58%) Oracle
3 13 (16.46%) Syncsort
4 12 (15.19%) SAP
5 10 (12.66%) Microsoft
6 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.33%) Sun
6 5 (6.33%) Sybase
6 5 (6.33%) Veritas
7 4 (5.06%) F5
7 4 (5.06%) ICL
8 3 (3.80%) Ab Initio
8 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
8 3 (3.80%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
8 3 (3.80%) Talend
8 3 (3.80%) Teradata
8 3 (3.80%) VMware
9 2 (2.53%) Databricks
9 2 (2.53%) Google