DB2 Contract Job Trends in Central London

IBM DB2
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 126 144
Rank change year-on-year +1 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing DB2 4 8 8
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.20% 0.33% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.07% 1.63% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile - £460 £481
25th Percentile - £471 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £474 £563
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -15.73% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £522 £609
90th Percentile - £594 £634
London median daily rate £500 £490 £563
% change year-on-year +2.04% -12.89% -6.25%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 374 492 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 19.08% 20.34% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 335 382
10th Percentile £356 £409 £375
25th Percentile £427 £475 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -1.68% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £763 £825 £800
London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £32.15 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £32.38 £37.88 -
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.63% +5.26% -34.48%
75th Percentile £63.75 £41.38 -
90th Percentile - £41.60 -
London median hourly rate £50.75 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +12.78% - -18.18%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in Central London

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
City of London +4 4 £400 -15.61% 1
DB2
London

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (75.00%) MemSQL
2 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (75.00%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets