DB2 Contract Job Trends in England

IBM DB2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 524 413 467
Rank change year-on-year -111 +54 +32
Contract jobs citing DB2 75 70 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.29% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.19% 1.53% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 32 52
10th Percentile £356 £360 £352
25th Percentile £430 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -5.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £613
90th Percentile £675 £793 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £472 £475
% change year-on-year +16.53% -0.63% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Database & BI Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,325 4,590 6,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.13% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,304 3,183 4,494
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £33.88 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.44% -15.30% -33.33%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in England

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DB2

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in England

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the England region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. 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
London -59 55 £550 - 6
North of England -73 15 £438 +9.02% 3
North West -34 8 £301 -25.25% 1
Yorkshire -56 6 £525 -4.55% 2
South East -59 2 £458 -3.68% 3
West Midlands -61 1 - -
Midlands -65 1 - - 2
North East - 1 £363 -
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 19 (25.33%) CICS
2 3 (4.00%) Confluence
2 3 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) Documentum
4 1 (1.33%) FileNet
4 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.33%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (13.33%) Serverless
3 7 (9.33%) GitHub
4 6 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.00%) Azure
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (4.00%) GCP
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.67%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.67%) IBM Cloud
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) NAS
1 1 (1.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.33%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 9 (12.00%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.67%) DynamoDB
6 7 (9.33%) MongoDB
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.33%) DataStage
8 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.00%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.67%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.67%) Metadata
9 2 (2.67%) OLTP
9 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.33%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.33%) Power BI
10 1 (1.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) GitLab
2 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.33%) JUnit
4 3 (4.00%) JIRA
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.33%) ChangeMan
6 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.33%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.33%) ERwin
6 1 (1.33%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.33%) JMeter
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (1.33%) Postman
6 1 (1.33%) Selenium
6 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.33%) XPEDITER
General
1 19 (25.33%) Banking
2 18 (24.00%) Finance
3 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) German Language
7 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Retail
7 1 (1.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (21.33%) Developer
2 13 (17.33%) Architect
3 9 (12.00%) Data Architect
4 8 (10.67%) DB2 Programmer
4 8 (10.67%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 8 (10.67%) Programmer
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Systems Programmer
4 8 (10.67%) Technical Specialist
5 7 (9.33%) Mainframe Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Mainframe Programmer
5 7 (9.33%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 5 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.67%) Mainframe Specialist
7 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) DBA
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.00%) DB2 Specialist
8 3 (4.00%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) Web Services
2 11 (14.67%) RESTful
3 9 (12.00%) SOAP
3 9 (12.00%) WSDL
4 8 (10.67%) JSON
4 8 (10.67%) Kafka
5 7 (9.33%) Spring
6 6 (8.00%) React
6 6 (8.00%) REST
6 6 (8.00%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.00%) Backbone.js
8 3 (4.00%) Bootstrap
8 3 (4.00%) Ember.js
8 3 (4.00%) jQuery
8 3 (4.00%) Keras
8 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
8 3 (4.00%) TensorFlow
8 3 (4.00%) XML
8 3 (4.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 44 (58.67%) Mainframe
2 10 (13.33%) VSAM
3 7 (9.33%) DataPower
4 6 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (8.00%) Online Banking
5 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.00%) Clustering
7 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.67%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.67%) Replication
7 2 (2.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.33%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 26 (34.67%) zOS
2 14 (18.67%) Linux
2 14 (18.67%) Windows
3 13 (17.33%) Unix
4 7 (9.33%) AIX
5 6 (8.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (4.00%) Android
6 3 (4.00%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.67%) MVS
8 1 (1.33%) Solaris
8 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.33%) Migration
2 20 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (14.67%) Agile
4 11 (14.67%) Data Migration
5 10 (13.33%) CI/CD
6 9 (12.00%) AI
6 9 (12.00%) Batch Processing
6 9 (12.00%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (12.00%) SOA
7 8 (10.67%) Analytics
7 8 (10.67%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.67%) ETL
8 7 (9.33%) Design Patterns
8 7 (9.33%) DevOps
8 7 (9.33%) Validation
9 6 (8.00%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (8.00%) Microservices
9 6 (8.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 32 (42.67%) SQL
2 17 (22.67%) JCL
3 15 (20.00%) Python
4 12 (16.00%) COBOL
5 10 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 9 (12.00%) Java
6 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.00%) Bash
8 5 (6.67%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.00%) XPath
10 2 (2.67%) REXX
11 1 (1.33%) Bicep
11 1 (1.33%) CLIST
11 1 (1.33%) Perl
11 1 (1.33%) Scala
11 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) CISA
3 3 (4.00%) PhD
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.67%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) CISM
5 1 (1.33%) CISSP
5 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) SEPA
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.33%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (8.00%) KVM
1 6 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.67%) Docker
3 3 (4.00%) RACF
4 2 (2.67%) ACF2
5 1 (1.33%) NFS
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.00%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (8.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (4.00%) CA Endevor
3 3 (4.00%) Terraform
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Control-M
5 1 (1.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (34.67%) IBM
2 13 (17.33%) Oracle
3 6 (8.00%) Sybase
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.67%) BEA
5 2 (2.67%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.67%) Teradata
5 2 (2.67%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.33%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.33%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.33%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.33%) Informatica
6 1 (1.33%) Perforce
6 1 (1.33%) Solace