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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 114 116
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +61
Contract jobs citing DB2 4 6 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.31% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 1.53% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile - £474 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% -16.75% -
75th Percentile - £566 £650
90th Percentile - £616 £694
Central London median daily rate £400 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -19.92% -16.75% -

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 331 391 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.38% 20.45% 20.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 251 350
10th Percentile £338 £404 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -2.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £749 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -9.48% -3.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +1.32% -49.42%
75th Percentile £35.50 £40.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £40.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -49.42%

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:

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