DB2 Contracts in the Midlands

IBM DB2
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 157 188
Rank change year-on-year +40 +31 -54
Contract jobs citing DB2 16 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.59% 0.091% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.73% 0.55% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 13
10th Percentile £323 £364 £435
25th Percentile £341 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.20% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £445 - £850
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +2.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 429 549 953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 15.93% 16.72% 19.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 375 710
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £356 £381 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £495 £461
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +7.32% +8.53%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £540
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 17
10th Percentile - £21.04 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -27.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £27.49 £26.48 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £31.64 £45.67
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands - 12 £358 - 2
East Midlands +15 4 £445 -11.00% 1
DB2
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (56.25%) CICS
1 9 (56.25%) SAS
2 1 (6.25%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) AWS
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) IDMS
2 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) OLAP
3 1 (6.25%) OLTP
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 10 (62.50%) Mainframe Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Architect
4 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 1 (6.25%) COBOL Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 10 (62.50%) IBM Mainframe
3 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (25.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) zOS
2 4 (25.00%) Android
2 4 (25.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 10 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (56.25%) Scrum
4 5 (31.25%) API Design
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) Architectural Design
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
5 4 (25.00%) Microservices
5 4 (25.00%) Project Management
5 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) Analytics
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (6.25%) Data Modelling
7 1 (6.25%) Data Transformation
7 1 (6.25%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) COBOL
2 9 (56.25%) CLIST
2 9 (56.25%) REXX
2 9 (56.25%) SELCOPY
3 4 (25.00%) C
3 4 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) IBM
2 9 (56.25%) Syncsort
3 1 (6.25%) ICL
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle