DB2 Contracts in England

IBM DB2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 466 499
Rank change year-on-year +53 +33 +42
Contract jobs citing DB2 72 76 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.56% 1.22% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 48 80
10th Percentile £373 £356 £389
25th Percentile £384 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £533 £600 £650
90th Percentile £800 £711 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile - - £62.85
25th Percentile £61.50 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £66.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in England

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 1 May 2025. 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 +42 45 £462 -16.00% 19
North of England +26 13 £402 -23.06% 6
North West +23 11 £402 -9.66% 6
East of England - 7 - - 1
Yorkshire +9 2 £550 -8.33%
South East +39 1 £475 +32.68% 6
Midlands +8 1 - - 4
West Midlands +4 1 - - 3
South West - 1 - -
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 10 (13.89%) CICS
3 8 (11.11%) Tomcat
4 7 (9.72%) JBoss
5 6 (8.33%) Apache
5 6 (8.33%) Apache Spark
6 5 (6.94%) WebLogic
7 3 (4.17%) SAS
8 2 (2.78%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (23.61%) AWS
2 11 (15.28%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.78%) Serverless
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.39%) Datadog
5 1 (1.39%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 15 (20.83%) Relational Database
3 14 (19.44%) SQL Server
4 9 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 7 (9.72%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (8.33%) Big Data
7 4 (5.56%) Oracle Database
8 3 (4.17%) DataStage
8 3 (4.17%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.78%) IMS/DB
10 1 (1.39%) Data Hub
10 1 (1.39%) Easytrieve
10 1 (1.39%) Informix
10 1 (1.39%) Metadata
10 1 (1.39%) MS Access
10 1 (1.39%) MySQL
10 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.39%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) JUnit
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket
3 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.17%) ChangeMan
5 2 (2.78%) JIRA
5 2 (2.78%) Selenium
5 2 (2.78%) SOAtest
6 1 (1.39%) Ant
6 1 (1.39%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (1.39%) GitLab
6 1 (1.39%) Gradle
6 1 (1.39%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.39%) Maven
6 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (54.17%) Finance
2 33 (45.83%) Social Skills
3 30 (41.67%) Banking
4 24 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (15.28%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.17%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.78%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.78%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) French Language
8 1 (1.39%) German Language
8 1 (1.39%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.39%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.39%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (31.94%) Developer
2 16 (22.22%) Architect
3 14 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Senior
5 11 (15.28%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Linux Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (15.28%) Senior SQL Developer
5 11 (15.28%) SQL Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (9.72%) Systems Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Information Architect
8 6 (8.33%) Information Systems Architect
9 5 (6.94%) Mainframe Developer
9 5 (6.94%) Scrum Master
10 4 (5.56%) Migration Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Data Migration Architect
11 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.78%) Spring
2 16 (22.22%) Web Services
3 11 (15.28%) JMS
3 11 (15.28%) Kafka
4 8 (11.11%) J2EE
4 8 (11.11%) SOAP
5 7 (9.72%) RESTful
6 6 (8.33%) EJB
6 6 (8.33%) WSDL
7 5 (6.94%) RAML
7 5 (6.94%) REST
7 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.56%) JSON
8 4 (5.56%) JSP
8 4 (5.56%) React
8 4 (5.56%) Servlets
8 4 (5.56%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (5.56%) XML
9 3 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 15 (20.83%) Data Structures
3 11 (15.28%) Equities
4 9 (12.50%) Management Information System
5 7 (9.72%) VSAM
6 5 (6.94%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
7 4 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (5.56%) Reference Data
8 2 (2.78%) AS400
8 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.78%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (1.39%) Clustering
9 1 (1.39%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.33%) Linux
2 16 (22.22%) Unix
3 9 (12.50%) Windows
4 6 (8.33%) zOS
5 3 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (52.78%) Agile
2 29 (40.28%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (34.72%) SDLC
4 13 (18.06%) DevOps
5 12 (16.67%) Migration
5 12 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (15.28%) Database Tuning
6 11 (15.28%) Multithreading
6 11 (15.28%) Open Source
7 10 (13.89%) ETL
8 9 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.11%) Information Management
9 8 (11.11%) Project Management
10 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
10 7 (9.72%) Data Migration
11 6 (8.33%) Business Analysis
11 6 (8.33%) Data Governance
11 6 (8.33%) Data Management
11 6 (8.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (54.17%) SQL
2 28 (38.89%) Java
3 24 (33.33%) Python
4 15 (20.83%) Shell Script
5 11 (15.28%) COBOL
5 11 (15.28%) REXX
6 10 (13.89%) JCL
7 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.94%) Assembly Language
8 5 (6.94%) Perl
8 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.56%) Scala
10 3 (4.17%) Bash
10 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.78%) HLASM
11 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.78%) RPG
11 2 (2.78%) RPG IV
12 1 (1.39%) C++
12 1 (1.39%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.94%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (1.39%) GDPR
2 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 9 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.78%) Time Sharing Option
2 2 (2.78%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (1.39%) Docker
3 1 (1.39%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Terraform
1 2 (2.78%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.39%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) CA Endevor
2 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.39%) TADDM
Vendors
1 29 (40.28%) Oracle
2 22 (30.56%) IBM
3 16 (22.22%) Sybase
4 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (4.17%) Ab Initio
6 3 (4.17%) Micro Focus
7 2 (2.78%) Databricks
7 2 (2.78%) Delphix
7 2 (2.78%) Informatica
7 2 (2.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.78%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.39%) Imperva
8 1 (1.39%) Remedy
8 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.39%) Splunk
8 1 (1.39%) Syncsort