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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 451 370 507
Rank change year-on-year -81 +137 +62
Contract jobs citing DB2 93 137 64
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.45% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.74% 2.49% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 75 34
10th Percentile £344 £373 £338
25th Percentile £400 £426 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.59%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £650
90th Percentile £720 £744 -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

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 5,348 5,501 6,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.27% 18.14% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 3,681 4,586
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £527 £535
% change year-on-year -5.12% -1.50% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 76 131
10th Percentile £20.69 £18.25 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.44 £22.87
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.69 £64.52
90th Percentile £83.95 £66.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +37.90% -31.69% -7.64%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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 -3 60 £500 +5.26% 16
North of England -37 20 £449 -14.57% 5
North West -4 14 £447 -0.56% 4
Yorkshire -47 6 £450 -25.00% 1
East of England -25 4 £550 +46.67%
South East -16 1 £350 -12.50% 7
Midlands -66 1 - - 4
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 11 (11.83%) CICS
2 10 (10.75%) WebSphere
3 6 (6.45%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (4.30%) Apache
5 4 (4.30%) Confluence
5 4 (4.30%) IIS
6 3 (3.23%) NetWeaver
7 1 (1.08%) JBoss
7 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (9.68%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (5.38%) BusinessWorks
3 4 (4.30%) Maximo
4 3 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (2.15%) Loan IQ
6 1 (1.08%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.81%) AWS
2 9 (9.68%) Azure
3 7 (7.53%) GCP
4 6 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon Kinesis
5 5 (5.38%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.38%) Serverless
6 4 (4.30%) AWS CodeBuild
6 4 (4.30%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.15%) Collibra
7 2 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.08%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (34.41%) Relational Database
2 26 (27.96%) SQL Server
3 21 (22.58%) MongoDB
4 16 (17.20%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (9.68%) MySQL
5 9 (9.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (8.60%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
7 5 (5.38%) Hadoop
7 5 (5.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.30%) MemSQL
8 4 (4.30%) Power BI
8 4 (4.30%) Sybase IQ
9 3 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
9 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.23%) DataStage
9 3 (3.23%) Metadata
9 3 (3.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 19 (20.43%) JUnit
2 7 (7.53%) JIRA
3 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.30%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.23%) GitLab
6 3 (3.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 3 (3.23%) Selenium
6 3 (3.23%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.15%) Git
7 2 (2.15%) Maven
8 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.08%) Mockito
8 1 (1.08%) Postman
8 1 (1.08%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.08%) Xcode
8 1 (1.08%) XCTest
General
1 45 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 34 (36.56%) Finance
3 31 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (30.11%) Banking
5 14 (15.05%) Investment Banking
6 9 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.15%) Front Office
10 1 (1.08%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.08%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.08%) French Language
10 1 (1.08%) German Language
10 1 (1.08%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.08%) Korean Language
10 1 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (52.69%) Developer
2 26 (27.96%) Java Developer
3 22 (23.66%) Senior
4 18 (19.35%) Senior Developer
4 18 (19.35%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (13.98%) Consultant
5 13 (13.98%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (13.98%) Linux Developer
5 13 (13.98%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (13.98%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (13.98%) SQL Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Administrator
6 5 (5.38%) Architect
6 5 (5.38%) AWS Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Mainframe Developer
6 5 (5.38%) Programmer
6 5 (5.38%) TIBCO Developer
7 4 (4.30%) Database Architect
7 4 (4.30%) Maximo Consultant
7 4 (4.30%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.66%) Kafka
1 22 (23.66%) Spring
2 18 (19.35%) JMS
3 15 (16.13%) Web Services
4 13 (13.98%) SOAP
5 9 (9.68%) .NET
5 9 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 9 (9.68%) XML
6 8 (8.60%) WSDL
7 7 (7.53%) HTML
7 7 (7.53%) XSLT
8 6 (6.45%) J2EE
9 5 (5.38%) CSS
9 5 (5.38%) OC4J
9 5 (5.38%) REST
9 5 (5.38%) TIBCO EMS
9 5 (5.38%) XSD
10 4 (4.30%) RESTful
11 3 (3.23%) Gherkin
11 3 (3.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Mainframe
2 18 (19.35%) Data Structures
3 13 (13.98%) Equities
4 8 (8.60%) Replication
4 8 (8.60%) Virtual Team
5 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.45%) VSAM
6 5 (5.38%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.30%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.23%) AS400
8 3 (3.23%) Clustering
8 3 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.15%) DataPower
9 2 (2.15%) iSeries
9 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.15%) Reference Data
10 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Linux
2 9 (9.68%) zOS
3 8 (8.60%) Windows
4 5 (5.38%) Unix
5 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.15%) AIX
6 2 (2.15%) MVS
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.86%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (33.33%) Agile
3 28 (30.11%) Performance Tuning
4 21 (22.58%) SDLC
5 14 (15.05%) Multithreading
5 14 (15.05%) Open Source
6 13 (13.98%) Database Tuning
6 13 (13.98%) Migration
7 11 (11.83%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.83%) High Availability
8 10 (10.75%) Microservices
9 9 (9.68%) Performance Optimisation
10 8 (8.60%) Change Data Capture
10 8 (8.60%) Design Patterns
10 8 (8.60%) Fund Accounting
10 8 (8.60%) Integration Testing
10 8 (8.60%) Root Cause Analysis
10 8 (8.60%) Software Engineering
11 7 (7.53%) Validation
12 6 (6.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) SQL
2 34 (36.56%) Java
3 29 (31.18%) Python
4 16 (17.20%) Shell Script
5 12 (12.90%) JCL
6 11 (11.83%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.75%) COBOL
8 6 (6.45%) Assembly Language
8 6 (6.45%) REXX
8 6 (6.45%) XPath
9 4 (4.30%) HLASM
10 3 (3.23%) Groovy
10 3 (3.23%) PL/1
11 2 (2.15%) Bash
11 2 (2.15%) Natural
11 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.15%) VB
11 2 (2.15%) VBA
12 1 (1.08%) RPG IV
12 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) GPEN
4 1 (1.08%) GWAPT
4 1 (1.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.15%) RACF
4 1 (1.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (8.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.38%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (4.30%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (3.23%) Ansible
4 3 (3.23%) CA Endevor
5 2 (2.15%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.15%) Linux-HA
5 2 (2.15%) Pacemaker
6 1 (1.08%) Control-M
6 1 (1.08%) Grafana
6 1 (1.08%) TADDM
6 1 (1.08%) Terraform
6 1 (1.08%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.08%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 28 (30.11%) IBM
2 21 (22.58%) Oracle
3 18 (19.35%) Sybase
4 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.68%) Advent
6 8 (8.60%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.38%) BEA
7 5 (5.38%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (5.38%) TIBCO
8 4 (4.30%) Informatica
8 4 (4.30%) SAP
9 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.23%) Cognos
10 2 (2.15%) Guidewire
10 2 (2.15%) Remedy
10 2 (2.15%) Syncsort
11 1 (1.08%) Confluent
11 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.08%) StreamSets