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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 111 122
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing DB2 9 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.39% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.34% 1.52% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £575 - -
25th Percentile £594 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £713 £525 £650
90th Percentile £735 £555 £703
Central London median daily rate £650 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +44.44% -25.00% -

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 384 395 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.71% 22.48% 22.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 252 321
10th Percentile £338 £404 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -6.21% -2.08%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £710
90th Percentile £749 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £21.61 £41.16 -
25th Percentile £25.14 £50.97 £46.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £67.33 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.37% +38.81% -42.32%
75th Percentile £46.41 £83.67 £50.25
90th Percentile £54.40 £93.47 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.65 £48.50
% change year-on-year -7.46% -28.56% -42.32%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the City of London

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 4 (44.44%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) GitHub
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (11.11%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) DynamoDB
2 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
3 3 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 7 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) RESTful
2 4 (44.44%) JSON
2 4 (44.44%) SOAP
2 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 4 (44.44%) WSDL
3 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) Backbone.js
3 3 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 3 (33.33%) Ember.js
3 3 (33.33%) Hugging Face
3 3 (33.33%) jQuery
3 3 (33.33%) Keras
3 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
3 3 (33.33%) React
3 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) Spring
4 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Mainframe
2 4 (44.44%) DataPower
2 4 (44.44%) Online Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) zOS
2 3 (33.33%) Android
2 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Batch Processing
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) SOA
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Business Development
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Data Science
4 3 (33.33%) Image Processing
4 3 (33.33%) LLM
4 3 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
4 3 (33.33%) Prototyping
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Statistics
5 2 (22.22%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 7 (77.78%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) JCL
3 4 (44.44%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) PhD
2 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 20022
1 1 (11.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Sybase