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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 486 389 480
Rank change year-on-year -97 +91 +41
Contract jobs citing DB2 76 94 68
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 1.94% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 35 39
10th Percentile £359 £350 £425
25th Percentile £411 £389 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £474 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -21.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £558 £650
90th Percentile £675 £629 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £563
% change year-on-year - -15.56% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.50 -

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 5,581 4,845 6,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.35% 18.59% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,865 3,247 4,421
10th Percentile £337 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £650
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 82 161
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.59
25th Percentile £27.41 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.25 £41.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.32% -3.53% -25.26%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £85.63 £73.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
% change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -25.26%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -15 54 £550 +22.22% 22
North of England -55 15 £450 -10.00%
North West -24 12 £415 -11.51%
Yorkshire -68 3 £450 -20.35%
Midlands -67 1 - -
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 9 (11.84%) CICS
2 7 (9.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (9.21%) WebLogic
2 7 (9.21%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.95%) NetWeaver
4 2 (2.63%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) Apache
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (11.84%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (9.21%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (3.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.32%) Loan IQ
4 1 (1.32%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) AWS
2 11 (14.47%) Azure
3 10 (13.16%) GCP
4 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (6.58%) AWS Fargate
6 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.58%) Serverless
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.26%) GitHub
7 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
8 3 (3.95%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (2.63%) Collibra
9 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (32.89%) Relational Database
2 24 (31.58%) SQL Server
3 19 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (21.05%) MongoDB
5 9 (11.84%) MySQL
5 9 (11.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (10.53%) NoSQL
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (5.26%) DynamoDB
9 4 (5.26%) Hadoop
10 3 (3.95%) BigQuery
10 3 (3.95%) Power BI
10 3 (3.95%) RDBMS
10 3 (3.95%) SAP HANA
11 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.63%) DataStage
11 2 (2.63%) Metadata
11 2 (2.63%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) JUnit
2 4 (5.26%) GitLab
2 4 (5.26%) JIRA
3 3 (3.95%) IBM UrbanCode
3 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.32%) Selenium
5 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.32%) XPEDITER
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.95%) Finance
3 19 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (23.68%) Banking
5 8 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.95%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Front Office
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (46.05%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) Java Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Architect
4 11 (14.47%) Senior Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Consultant
6 6 (7.89%) Database Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Linux Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Database Architect
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior SQL Developer
6 6 (7.89%) SQL Developer
6 6 (7.89%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.58%) Mainframe Developer
8 4 (5.26%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.95%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.05%) Kafka
2 15 (19.74%) Spring
3 13 (17.11%) JMS
4 12 (15.79%) Web Services
5 9 (11.84%) .NET
5 9 (11.84%) XSLT
6 8 (10.53%) SOAP
6 8 (10.53%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.53%) WSDL
7 7 (9.21%) J2EE
7 7 (9.21%) OC4J
7 7 (9.21%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (9.21%) XML
7 7 (9.21%) XSD
8 6 (7.89%) REST
9 5 (6.58%) React
10 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.95%) Bootstrap
11 3 (3.95%) Keras
11 3 (3.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.74%) Mainframe
2 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
3 7 (9.21%) Virtual Team
4 6 (7.89%) Equities
4 6 (7.89%) VSAM
5 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.58%) Replication
6 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.63%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.63%) AS400
8 2 (2.63%) Clustering
8 2 (2.63%) DataPower
8 2 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (2.63%) iSeries
8 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.63%) Reference Data
9 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.32%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (26.32%) Linux
2 13 (17.11%) zOS
3 10 (13.16%) Windows
4 7 (9.21%) Unix
5 3 (3.95%) AIX
5 3 (3.95%) Android
5 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.63%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.00%) Agile
2 19 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 15 (19.74%) Migration
4 10 (13.16%) Change Data Capture
4 10 (13.16%) Design Patterns
4 10 (13.16%) SDLC
5 8 (10.53%) Fund Accounting
5 8 (10.53%) Multithreading
5 8 (10.53%) Performance Optimisation
5 8 (10.53%) SOA
6 7 (9.21%) Microservices
6 7 (9.21%) OOA/OOD
6 7 (9.21%) Open Source
6 7 (9.21%) Resource Management
6 7 (9.21%) RUP
6 7 (9.21%) UML
6 7 (9.21%) Validation
7 6 (7.89%) Analytics
7 6 (7.89%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) SQL
2 22 (28.95%) Java
3 20 (26.32%) Python
4 8 (10.53%) XPath
5 6 (7.89%) COBOL
5 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.58%) Assembly Language
6 5 (6.58%) JCL
7 4 (5.26%) HLASM
7 4 (5.26%) REXX
8 3 (3.95%) Bash
8 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.63%) Groovy
10 1 (1.32%) Perl
10 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.32%) VB
10 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) PhD
4 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.32%) GPEN
5 1 (1.32%) GWAPT
5 1 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Docker
1 3 (3.95%) Hyper-V
1 3 (3.95%) KVM
1 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.32%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Kubernetes
1 7 (9.21%) TIBCO Hawk
2 3 (3.95%) Ansible
2 3 (3.95%) IBM BigFix
2 3 (3.95%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.95%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.63%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (2.63%) Grafana
3 2 (2.63%) Linux-HA
3 2 (2.63%) Pacemaker
3 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 23 (30.26%) IBM
2 19 (25.00%) Oracle
3 12 (15.79%) Sybase
4 9 (11.84%) Advent
5 7 (9.21%) BEA
5 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.21%) TIBCO
6 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.26%) SAP
8 3 (3.95%) Informatica
9 2 (2.63%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.63%) Guidewire
9 2 (2.63%) Remedy
10 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.32%) Confluent
10 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.32%) GoldenSource
10 1 (1.32%) Google
10 1 (1.32%) RightFax
10 1 (1.32%) StreamSets