DB2 Contracts in the North West

IBM DB2
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 129 143
Rank change year-on-year +17 +14 +32
Contract jobs citing DB2 15 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.75% 0.28% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.41% 1.91% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 2
10th Percentile £347 £445 -
25th Percentile £379 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £460 £603 -
90th Percentile £571 £770 -
England median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £64.50 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 340 418 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 16.97% 14.73% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 309 355
10th Percentile £340 £348 £325
25th Percentile £400 £401 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £546 £542 £586
90th Percentile £624 £613 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 15
10th Percentile £21.02 £27.43 £28.26
25th Percentile £22.62 £37.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £28.65 £43.62 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +9.05% -5.88%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.18 £54.69
90th Percentile £71.88 £69.13 £64.80
England median hourly rate £34.19 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -14.53% -29.76% +50.66%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DB2 in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the North West over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Cheshire -1 11 £402 -9.66% 9
Lancashire - 2 £550 - 3
Manchester +12 1 £378 -51.23% 13
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England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (60.00%) WebSphere
2 8 (53.33%) CICS
3 4 (26.67%) JBoss
3 4 (26.67%) Tomcat
3 4 (26.67%) WebLogic
4 2 (13.33%) Apache
4 2 (13.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Git
2 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) Bitbucket
3 4 (26.67%) Selenium
4 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (13.33%) Eclipse
4 2 (13.33%) IntelliJ
4 2 (13.33%) Maven
4 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (13.33%) SOAtest
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) General Ledger
3 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Scrum Master
2 3 (20.00%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Mainframe Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Maximo Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Test Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Database Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Java Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Mainframe Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Major Incident Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Web Services
2 6 (40.00%) J2EE
2 6 (40.00%) SOAP
3 4 (26.67%) EJB
3 4 (26.67%) JSP
3 4 (26.67%) RAML
3 4 (26.67%) REST
3 4 (26.67%) Servlets
3 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (26.67%) WSDL
3 4 (26.67%) XML
4 3 (20.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Mainframe
2 7 (46.67%) VSAM
3 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
3 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Payment
5 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) API Development
4 4 (26.67%) Backlog Management
4 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 4 (26.67%) Budget Control
4 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 3 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Servant Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Situational Awareness
6 2 (13.33%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) COBOL
3 7 (46.67%) JCL
4 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (26.67%) REXX
6 3 (20.00%) Python
7 1 (6.67%) Assembly Language
7 1 (6.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) Ab Initio
4 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 2 (13.33%) Parasoft
5 1 (6.67%) Cloudera
5 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 1 (6.67%) Imperva
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk
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