DB2 Contracts in the Midlands

IBM DB2
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 126 148
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +43
Contract jobs citing DB2 7 16 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.32% 0.54% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 3.73% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 5
10th Percentile - £323 £320
25th Percentile £340 £341 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £364 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -14.35% -15.00%
75th Percentile £358 £428 £500
90th Percentile £406 £445 -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -5.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

DB2 falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 354 429 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.08% 14.52% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 311 361
10th Percentile £296 £300 £300
25th Percentile £386 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -11.46% -1.54%
75th Percentile £537 £550 £575
90th Percentile £616 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile £17.62 - £21.04
25th Percentile £18.50 - £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £14.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -44.55% -27.86%
75th Percentile £33.88 £27.83 £26.48
90th Percentile £35.78 £40.50 £31.64
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.00% -29.76% +50.66%

DB2
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

DB2
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

DB2
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

DB2
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 28 June 2025. 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
East Midlands +5 4 £345 -22.47% 4
West Midlands -5 3 £425 +18.72% 3
DB2
England

DB2
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 3 (42.86%) CICS
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
2 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
3 1 (14.29%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) Eclipse
2 3 (42.86%) IntelliJ
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Maven
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Cognos Support
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RAML
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Mainframe
1 3 (42.86%) VSAM
2 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) COBOL
3 3 (42.86%) JCL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) IBM
3 2 (28.57%) Cognos
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
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