DB2 Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 470 494 537
Rank change year-on-year +24 +43 -27
Contract jobs citing DB2 105 190 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.44% 1.92% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 95 219
10th Percentile £358 £394 £350
25th Percentile £405 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £639
90th Percentile £738 £707 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £531 £485
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.54% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £61.84 £46.65
25th Percentile - £63.14 £47.63
Median hourly rate - £66.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -
75th Percentile - £66.42 £55.13
90th Percentile - £67.66 £56.55
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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 84 £475 -7.32% 30
London +63 44 £538 +1.65% 18
Work from Home +48 44 £445 -22.61% 14
UK excluding London +6 36 £425 -20.00% 11
Midlands +34 16 £364 -14.35% 1
West Midlands - 12 £358 - 1
North of England +7 10 £600 +60.00% 4
South East +9 8 £358 -37.05% 4
Scotland +27 6 £475 -17.39%
North West +21 6 £445 +18.67% 1
East Midlands +12 4 £445 -3.78%
Yorkshire +2 4 £663 +15.22% 3
South West -1 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 25 (23.81%) CICS
2 19 (18.10%) SAS
3 6 (5.71%) IIS
4 4 (3.81%) CMS
4 4 (3.81%) JBoss
4 4 (3.81%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.90%) Apache
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.90%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.90%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 25 (23.81%) AWS
2 21 (20.00%) Azure
3 7 (6.67%) SaaS
4 6 (5.71%) GCP
5 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.81%) Serverless
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) SAN
2 2 (1.90%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (1.90%) iSCSI
3 1 (0.95%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) IDMS
2 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 13 (12.38%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.57%) RDBMS
5 8 (7.62%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.71%) OLTP
7 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.76%) MySQL
7 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.76%) Sybase ASE
8 4 (3.81%) SAP HANA
9 3 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 3 (2.86%) Data Hub
9 3 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 3 (2.86%) IBM InfoSphere
9 3 (2.86%) Scylla
10 2 (1.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (15.24%) Git
2 6 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.81%) Vagrant
4 2 (1.90%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.90%) GitLab
4 2 (1.90%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (0.95%) JIRA
5 1 (0.95%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 31 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.76%) Finance
3 18 (17.14%) Banking
4 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Arabic Language
8 2 (1.90%) French Language
8 2 (1.90%) German Language
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Japanese Language
8 2 (1.90%) Korean Language
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.95%) Danish Language
9 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) Developer
2 24 (22.86%) Architect
3 19 (18.10%) Mainframe Developer
4 14 (13.33%) IBM Mainframe Developer
5 10 (9.52%) Data Architect
5 10 (9.52%) DBA
6 8 (7.62%) AWS Architect
6 8 (7.62%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.67%) DB2 Specialist
7 7 (6.67%) Lead
7 7 (6.67%) z/OS Specialist
8 6 (5.71%) Administrator
8 6 (5.71%) COBOL Developer
9 5 (4.76%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (3.81%) Consultant
10 4 (3.81%) DB2 Administrator
10 4 (3.81%) DB2 Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior
10 4 (3.81%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) Spring
2 7 (6.67%) .NET
3 6 (5.71%) React
3 6 (5.71%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.81%) ISPF
4 4 (3.81%) Web Services
4 4 (3.81%) XML
5 3 (2.86%) SOAP
6 2 (1.90%) EJB
6 2 (1.90%) Flash
6 2 (1.90%) J2EE
6 2 (1.90%) JSON
6 2 (1.90%) JSP
6 2 (1.90%) LDAP
6 2 (1.90%) POSIX
6 2 (1.90%) RESTful
6 2 (1.90%) Servlets
6 2 (1.90%) TIBCO EMS
6 2 (1.90%) XSD
6 2 (1.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (38.10%) Mainframe
2 17 (16.19%) IBM Mainframe
3 9 (8.57%) Replication
4 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.62%) Public Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.86%) Data Fabric
6 3 (2.86%) LPAR
6 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) NVMe
7 2 (1.90%) VSAM
8 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.95%) iSeries
8 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.24%) zOS
2 27 (25.71%) Linux
3 16 (15.24%) Unix
4 13 (12.38%) Windows
5 5 (4.76%) Android
5 5 (4.76%) Apple iOS
5 5 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.76%) Solaris
6 4 (3.81%) AIX
6 4 (3.81%) VMS
7 2 (1.90%) Data ONTAP
7 2 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.95%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.52%) Agile
2 22 (20.95%) Requirements Gathering
3 20 (19.05%) Scrum
4 19 (18.10%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (17.14%) Migration
5 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.38%) Performance Tuning
7 12 (11.43%) Change Data Capture
7 12 (11.43%) ETL
7 12 (11.43%) Microservices
8 10 (9.52%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (9.52%) Data Migration
9 9 (8.57%) DevOps
9 9 (8.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 9 (8.57%) Task Automation
9 9 (8.57%) Waterfall
10 8 (7.62%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.62%) High Availability
10 8 (7.62%) Incident Management
10 8 (7.62%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.29%) SQL
2 35 (33.33%) COBOL
3 24 (22.86%) Java
3 24 (22.86%) REXX
4 15 (14.29%) SELCOPY
5 14 (13.33%) CLIST
6 11 (10.48%) Python
7 7 (6.67%) Perl
8 6 (5.71%) C
9 5 (4.76%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.86%) JCL
10 3 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.90%) XPath
12 1 (0.95%) C++
12 1 (0.95%) Natural
12 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.95%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (21.90%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.95%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) Degree
4 3 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) SANS
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) GRC
4 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.90%) Docker
3 2 (1.90%) GPFS
3 2 (1.90%) NFS
3 2 (1.90%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.76%) CA Endevor
2 4 (3.81%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.90%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (1.90%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 52 (49.52%) IBM
2 27 (25.71%) Oracle
3 16 (15.24%) Syncsort
4 12 (11.43%) SAP
5 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
6 8 (7.62%) Sybase
7 7 (6.67%) F5
7 7 (6.67%) Veritas
8 5 (4.76%) AppDynamics
8 5 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 5 (4.76%) Sun
9 4 (3.81%) Google
9 4 (3.81%) ICL
10 3 (2.86%) Ab Initio
10 3 (2.86%) BiZZdesign
10 3 (2.86%) Databricks
10 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.86%) Talend
10 3 (2.86%) Teradata
10 3 (2.86%) VMware