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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 571 422 384
Rank change year-on-year -149 -38 +140
Contract jobs citing Db2 69 92 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.98% 1.83% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 93
10th Percentile £304 £342 £363
25th Percentile £386 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% -14.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £613
90th Percentile £684 £748 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £472 £500
% change year-on-year +11.23% -5.60% -13.04%

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 7,016 5,015 6,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 18.08% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,698 3,454 4,331
10th Percentile £358 £338 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 82 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £20.87 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.62 £25.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.99 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -0.03% -36.36%
75th Percentile £60.94 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.58 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.25 £35.50 £33.93
% change year-on-year +7.75% +4.63% -38.31%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -101 44 £550 +9.45% 4
North of England -65 16 £363 -9.83% 3
Yorkshire -35 10 £514 +30.13% 1
North West -53 5 £304 -24.38% 2
South East -65 4 £386 +10.29%
Midlands -50 1 - - 5
West Midlands -51 1 - - 1
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 17 (24.64%) CICS
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) Documentum
3 1 (1.45%) FileNet
3 1 (1.45%) PowerExchange
3 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) AWS
2 10 (14.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (13.04%) Azure
4 8 (11.59%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (11.59%) Serverless
5 5 (7.25%) IaaS
5 5 (7.25%) PaaS
5 5 (7.25%) SaaS
6 4 (5.80%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
7 2 (2.90%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.45%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.45%) Collibra
8 1 (1.45%) dbt
8 1 (1.45%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) NAS
1 5 (7.25%) SAN
2 4 (5.80%) DHCP
2 4 (5.80%) DNS
2 4 (5.80%) Firewall
2 4 (5.80%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) Relational Database
2 9 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (10.14%) DataStage
4 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.70%) DynamoDB
6 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
6 5 (7.25%) OLTP
7 4 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (4.35%) Metadata
8 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 3 (4.35%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.90%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.90%) Couchbase
9 2 (2.90%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.90%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (2.90%) Power BI
9 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) GitLab
2 2 (2.90%) Flyway
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) JMeter
2 2 (2.90%) Liquibase
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.90%) Postman
3 1 (1.45%) CA Gen
3 1 (1.45%) ChangeMan
3 1 (1.45%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.45%) ERwin
3 1 (1.45%) Gradle
3 1 (1.45%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (1.45%) Visual LANSA
General
1 25 (36.23%) Finance
1 25 (36.23%) Social Skills
2 24 (34.78%) Banking
3 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.45%) German Language
6 1 (1.45%) Legal
6 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (18.84%) Developer
2 9 (13.04%) Architect
3 7 (10.14%) Programmer
3 7 (10.14%) Systems Programmer
4 6 (8.70%) DB2 Programmer
4 6 (8.70%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 6 (8.70%) Mainframe Programmer
4 6 (8.70%) Mainframe Specialist
4 6 (8.70%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 5 (7.25%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.25%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) DB2 Specialist
5 5 (7.25%) Incident Manager
5 5 (7.25%) Major Incident Manager
6 4 (5.80%) DataStage Developer
7 3 (4.35%) DBA
7 3 (4.35%) Mainframe Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Production Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Support Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.49%) Web Services
2 8 (11.59%) JSON
2 8 (11.59%) SOAP
3 6 (8.70%) Kafka
3 6 (8.70%) RESTful
3 6 (8.70%) WSDL
4 5 (7.25%) Middleware
4 5 (7.25%) REST
4 5 (7.25%) Spring
4 5 (7.25%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.80%) LDAP
6 3 (4.35%) Terraform
6 3 (4.35%) XML
7 2 (2.90%) .NET
7 2 (2.90%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC 5
7 2 (2.90%) HTML
7 2 (2.90%) PySpark
7 2 (2.90%) React
7 2 (2.90%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 44 (63.77%) Mainframe
2 10 (14.49%) VSAM
3 6 (8.70%) DataPower
3 6 (8.70%) Online Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 5 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.80%) PKI
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.35%) Clustering
6 3 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.90%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.90%) Replication
7 2 (2.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.45%) AS400
8 1 (1.45%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 22 (31.88%) zOS
2 15 (21.74%) Unix
3 10 (14.49%) Windows
4 3 (4.35%) Linux
5 2 (2.90%) MVS
6 1 (1.45%) AIX
6 1 (1.45%) Solaris
6 1 (1.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (40.58%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (31.88%) Performance Tuning
3 20 (28.99%) Migration
4 13 (18.84%) ETL
5 12 (17.39%) Data Modelling
6 10 (14.49%) Batch Processing
6 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.04%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.04%) Integration Patterns
7 9 (13.04%) SDLC
7 9 (13.04%) Validation
8 8 (11.59%) AI
8 8 (11.59%) Change Management
8 8 (11.59%) Data Integration
9 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.14%) Data Mapping
9 7 (10.14%) Data Migration
9 7 (10.14%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (10.14%) Data Reconciliation
10 6 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 27 (39.13%) SQL
2 19 (27.54%) JCL
3 16 (23.19%) COBOL
4 14 (20.29%) Shell Script
5 10 (14.49%) Python
6 8 (11.59%) Java
6 8 (11.59%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.80%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.80%) REXX
8 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.90%) C#
10 1 (1.45%) Bicep
10 1 (1.45%) CLIST
10 1 (1.45%) RPG
10 1 (1.45%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 3 (4.35%) CISA
1 3 (4.35%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.45%) CISM
2 1 (1.45%) CISSP
2 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.45%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) ISO 20022
2 3 (4.35%) SEPA
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) SLA
3 1 (1.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (7.25%) NFS
2 4 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.80%) RACF
3 3 (4.35%) ACF2
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.45%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.35%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.90%) Control-M
4 1 (1.45%) Ansible
4 1 (1.45%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.45%) Grafana
4 1 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.45%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) IBM
2 14 (20.29%) Oracle
3 6 (8.70%) Sybase
4 5 (7.25%) Greenplum
4 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.25%) Teradata
5 3 (4.35%) Databricks
6 2 (2.90%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.90%) Informatica
6 2 (2.90%) Solace
7 1 (1.45%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.45%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.45%) Confluent
7 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.45%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.45%) LANSA
7 1 (1.45%) Perforce
7 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow