DB2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM DB2
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 380 388
Rank change year-on-year +30 +8 -43
Contract jobs citing DB2 35 66 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.35% 1.89% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 84
10th Percentile £336 £370 £350
25th Percentile £358 £469 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +7.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £543 £616 £569
90th Percentile £722 £719 £714
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
10th Percentile - £61.84 -
25th Percentile - £63.14 £46.00
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
Median % change year-on-year - +40.43% -
75th Percentile - £66.42 £48.00
90th Percentile - £67.66 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,585 3,497 5,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.72% 15.22% 17.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,838 2,500 3,834
10th Percentile £313 £338 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +11.86%
75th Percentile £585 £598 £581
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 112 133
10th Percentile £13.55 £21.32 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.68 £32.15 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.70 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.19% +59.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.81 £62.15
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.73 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £46.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +27.37% +76.92%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the UK excluding London

DB2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Midlands +43 16 £364 -27.20% 3
West Midlands - 12 £358 - 1
Scotland +36 8 £550 -4.35%
South East +14 8 £358 -37.05% 2
North of England +9 7 £445 +1.71% 4
North West +16 5 £445 +18.67% 1
East Midlands +15 4 £445 -11.00% 2
Yorkshire -4 2 £470 -12.56% 3
South West -5 1 - -
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (42.86%) SAS
2 12 (34.29%) CICS
3 1 (2.86%) CMS
3 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) AWS
2 9 (25.71%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) OpenShift
4 4 (11.43%) SaaS
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.43%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (11.43%) iSCSI
1 4 (11.43%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) IDMS
2 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.57%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
5 2 (5.71%) Data Hub
5 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Adabas
6 1 (2.86%) Big Data
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.86%) OLAP
6 1 (2.86%) OLTP
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 16 (45.71%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Banking
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Law
5 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Developer
2 12 (34.29%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 12 (34.29%) Mainframe Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Python Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Storage Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) COBOL Developer
5 3 (8.57%) DBA
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle DBA
7 1 (2.86%) Administrator
7 1 (2.86%) Lead Developer
7 1 (2.86%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) React
2 4 (11.43%) .NET
2 4 (11.43%) Flash
2 4 (11.43%) POSIX
3 2 (5.71%) Spring
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
4 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (48.57%) Mainframe
2 12 (34.29%) IBM Mainframe
3 6 (17.14%) Public Cloud
4 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (11.43%) Client/Server
5 4 (11.43%) NVMe
6 3 (8.57%) Product Ownership
7 2 (5.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.86%) iSeries
8 1 (2.86%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) zOS
2 7 (20.00%) Linux
3 6 (17.14%) Unix
3 6 (17.14%) Windows
4 5 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (11.43%) Android
5 4 (11.43%) Apple iOS
5 4 (11.43%) Data ONTAP
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 13 (37.14%) Requirements Gathering
2 13 (37.14%) Scrum
3 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (25.71%) SDLC
5 6 (17.14%) Domain-Driven Design
5 6 (17.14%) Microservices
5 6 (17.14%) Waterfall
6 5 (14.29%) API Design
7 4 (11.43%) Architectural Design
7 4 (11.43%) Capacity Management
7 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.43%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (11.43%) High Availability
7 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (11.43%) Observability
7 4 (11.43%) Preventative Maintenance
7 4 (11.43%) Problem Management
7 4 (11.43%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (45.71%) COBOL
2 13 (37.14%) Java
3 11 (31.43%) CLIST
3 11 (31.43%) REXX
3 11 (31.43%) SQL
4 10 (28.57%) SELCOPY
5 4 (11.43%) C
5 4 (11.43%) Perl
5 4 (11.43%) Python
6 2 (5.71%) JCL
6 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.86%) Natural
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) SC Cleared
1 11 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Docker
1 4 (11.43%) GPFS
1 4 (11.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (2.86%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) IBM
2 11 (31.43%) Syncsort
3 6 (17.14%) Google
4 5 (14.29%) Oracle
4 5 (14.29%) Sybase
5 4 (11.43%) Brocade
5 4 (11.43%) EMC
5 4 (11.43%) NetApp
5 4 (11.43%) Veritas
6 2 (5.71%) Databricks
6 2 (5.71%) F5
6 2 (5.71%) Greenplum
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.86%) ICL
7 1 (2.86%) SAP