Db2 Contract Job Trends in the City of London

IBM Db2
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Db2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 120 118
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Db2 5 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.25% 1.20% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - - £460
25th Percentile £650 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £475 £544
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -12.64% -
75th Percentile £750 £613 £630
90th Percentile - £680 £713
Central London median daily rate £700 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +47.37% -12.64% -

All Database & BI Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 399 417 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.22% 23.00% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 273 325
10th Percentile £361 £400 £400
25th Percentile £463 £449 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £659 £688 £719
90th Percentile £763 £800 £804
Central London median daily rate £565 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -1.74% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £20.43 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £22.20 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.59% - -
75th Percentile £29.76 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £31.76 £78.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £34.65 -
% change year-on-year -25.59% - -

Db2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Db2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Db2 job vacancy trend in the City of London

Db2
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Db2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Db2

Db2
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Db2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Db2

Db2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Gradle
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
1 3 (60.00%) WSDL
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (60.00%) DataPower
2 3 (60.00%) Online Banking
3 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) zOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Enrichment
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Memory Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Shell Script
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) JCL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (20.00%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Sybase