DB2 Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

IBM DB2
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.46% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £375 -
% change year-on-year +46.67% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 32 11 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 14.81% 6.79% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 27
10th Percentile £374 £231 £410
25th Percentile £513 £340 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -10.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £534
90th Percentile £645 £550 £554
East of England median daily rate £500 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +25.08% -20.05% -4.67%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

DB2 job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Luton - 1 £550 -
DB2
East of England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos Report Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cognos
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle