IBM DB2
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 469 509 573
Rank change year-on-year +40 +64 -63
Contract jobs citing DB2 104 192 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.43% 1.88% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 101 191
10th Percentile £358 £413 £350
25th Percentile £400 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +2.33% +3.97%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £639
90th Percentile £738 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -23.26% +7.50% +7.53%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £66.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +40.43% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,263 10,212 17,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.07% 17.88% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,202 7,271 12,451
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 180 194
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.37
25th Percentile £20.98 £32.30 £22.43
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.60 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.55 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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
England +27 77 £475 -9.52% 20
Work from Home +68 46 £452 -21.39% 4
London +62 41 £550 +4.76% 9
UK excluding London +22 36 £413 -23.26% 9
Midlands +45 16 £364 -27.20% 3
West Midlands - 12 £358 - 2
Scotland +39 9 £550 -4.35%
South East +18 8 £358 -37.05% 1
North of England +5 7 £445 +1.71% 4
North West +18 5 £445 +18.67% 1
East Midlands +17 4 £445 -11.00% 1
Yorkshire +5 2 £470 -12.56% 3
South West +11 1 - - 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 26 (25.00%) CICS
2 21 (20.19%) SAS
3 7 (6.73%) IIS
4 4 (3.85%) CMS
4 4 (3.85%) JBoss
5 3 (2.88%) Apache
5 3 (2.88%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.88%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.96%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.92%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.00%) AWS
2 23 (22.12%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) SaaS
4 5 (4.81%) GCP
5 4 (3.85%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.88%) Serverless
7 2 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.77%) SAN
2 4 (3.85%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (3.85%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.96%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) IDMS
2 14 (13.46%) Relational Database
2 14 (13.46%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.65%) RDBMS
4 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
5 6 (5.77%) OLTP
5 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.81%) MySQL
6 5 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.81%) Sybase ASE
7 4 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.85%) SAP HANA
8 3 (2.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.88%) IBM InfoSphere
8 3 (2.88%) Scylla
9 2 (1.92%) Adabas
9 2 (1.92%) Big Data
9 2 (1.92%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.92%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (16.35%) Git
2 7 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.85%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.92%) GitLab
5 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.96%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 31 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 27 (25.96%) Finance
3 19 (18.27%) Banking
4 9 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Arabic Language
8 2 (1.92%) French Language
8 2 (1.92%) German Language
8 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.92%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.92%) Korean Language
8 2 (1.92%) Law
8 2 (1.92%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.96%) Danish Language
9 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Developer
2 23 (22.12%) Architect
3 18 (17.31%) Mainframe Developer
4 14 (13.46%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 10 (9.62%) DBA
6 8 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 8 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Administrator
7 7 (6.73%) AWS Architect
7 7 (6.73%) DB2 Specialist
7 7 (6.73%) z/OS Specialist
8 6 (5.77%) COBOL Developer
8 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Lead
9 5 (4.81%) Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) DB2 Administrator
10 4 (3.85%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (3.85%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) Spring
3 6 (5.77%) React
3 6 (5.77%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.81%) Web Services
4 5 (4.81%) XML
5 4 (3.85%) Flash
5 4 (3.85%) ISPF
5 4 (3.85%) POSIX
6 3 (2.88%) EJB
6 3 (2.88%) J2EE
6 3 (2.88%) JSP
6 3 (2.88%) LDAP
6 3 (2.88%) Servlets
6 3 (2.88%) SOAP
7 2 (1.92%) JSON
7 2 (1.92%) RESTful
7 2 (1.92%) TIBCO EMS
7 2 (1.92%) XSD
7 2 (1.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 42 (40.38%) Mainframe
2 18 (17.31%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (8.65%) Replication
4 8 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
6 5 (4.81%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.81%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.85%) Client/Server
7 4 (3.85%) LPAR
7 4 (3.85%) NVMe
8 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.92%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) VSAM
10 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.96%) iSeries
10 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.58%) zOS
2 25 (24.04%) Linux
3 18 (17.31%) Unix
4 13 (12.50%) Windows
5 7 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.81%) Android
6 5 (4.81%) Apple iOS
6 5 (4.81%) Solaris
7 4 (3.85%) AIX
7 4 (3.85%) Data ONTAP
7 4 (3.85%) VMS
7 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.96%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.77%) Agile
2 22 (21.15%) Requirements Gathering
3 20 (19.23%) Scrum
4 18 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.35%) Migration
5 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (13.46%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (11.54%) Change Data Capture
7 12 (11.54%) Microservices
8 11 (10.58%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (9.62%) DevOps
9 10 (9.62%) High Availability
9 10 (9.62%) SDLC
9 10 (9.62%) Waterfall
10 9 (8.65%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.65%) ETL
10 9 (8.65%) Operational Acceptance Testing
10 9 (8.65%) Task Automation
11 8 (7.69%) Data Migration
11 8 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.62%) COBOL
2 34 (32.69%) SQL
3 27 (25.96%) Java
4 25 (24.04%) REXX
5 15 (14.42%) SELCOPY
6 14 (13.46%) CLIST
6 14 (13.46%) Python
7 9 (8.65%) Perl
8 6 (5.77%) C
9 5 (4.81%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.88%) JCL
12 2 (1.92%) XPath
13 1 (0.96%) C++
13 1 (0.96%) Groovy
13 1 (0.96%) Natural
13 1 (0.96%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.96%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.73%) Degree
4 3 (2.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (2.88%) CISSP
4 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.88%) SANS
5 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.92%) PMP
6 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.77%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) GDPR
3 3 (2.88%) GRC
4 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (4.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) GPFS
2 4 (3.85%) NFS
3 2 (1.92%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.96%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (4.81%) CA Endevor
1 5 (4.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.85%) Tivoli
2 4 (3.85%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (1.92%) TIBCO Hawk
4 1 (0.96%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 53 (50.96%) IBM
2 26 (25.00%) Oracle
3 16 (15.38%) Syncsort
4 11 (10.58%) SAP
5 10 (9.62%) Microsoft
5 10 (9.62%) Sybase
6 9 (8.65%) Veritas
7 6 (5.77%) F5
7 6 (5.77%) Google
8 5 (4.81%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.81%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.81%) Sun
9 4 (3.85%) Brocade
9 4 (3.85%) EMC
9 4 (3.85%) ICL
9 4 (3.85%) NetApp
10 3 (2.88%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.88%) CyberArk
10 3 (2.88%) Talend
10 3 (2.88%) Teradata