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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 569 431 380
Rank change year-on-year -138 -51 +126
Contract jobs citing Db2 77 91 155
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.32% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 1.78% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 48 94
10th Percentile £303 £340 £363
25th Percentile £425 £373 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.29% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £639
90th Percentile £728 £648 £751
UK median daily rate £529 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +17.50% -10.00% -9.09%

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 6,784 5,100 5,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.64% 18.16% 18.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,505 3,490 4,029
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £669
90th Percentile £716 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 79 85
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.97 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +16.00% -29.91%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £81.20 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £39.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.65% +12.80% -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 October 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 October 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 -104 37 £550 +10.00% 30
North of England -64 21 £452 +12.44% 23
Yorkshire -30 14 £514 +51.18% 6
Midlands -41 8 £800 +128.57% 23
North West -52 6 £304 -27.53% 14
East Midlands -8 5 £800 +131.88% 18
West Midlands -44 3 - - 5
South East -57 3 £475 +35.71% 28
North East - 1 £475 - 3
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 21 (27.27%) CICS
2 5 (6.49%) Confluence
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.30%) Documentum
4 1 (1.30%) FileNet
4 1 (1.30%) PowerExchange
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Maximo
2 1 (1.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.97%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (6.49%) Serverless
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
5 4 (5.19%) IaaS
5 4 (5.19%) PaaS
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) GCP
7 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.30%) Collibra
8 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.30%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DHCP
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
1 4 (5.19%) Kerberos
1 4 (5.19%) NAS
1 4 (5.19%) SAN
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (12.99%) Relational Database
3 8 (10.39%) DataStage
4 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (7.79%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.49%) OLTP
6 5 (6.49%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.90%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.90%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.60%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.60%) Metadata
9 2 (2.60%) MySQL
9 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (2.60%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) GitLab
1 6 (7.79%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Gradle
3 2 (2.60%) Flyway
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.60%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.30%) CA Gen
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) JMeter
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Developer 2000
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.30%) Postman
4 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.30%) Visual LANSA
General
1 31 (40.26%) Social Skills
2 29 (37.66%) Finance
3 25 (32.47%) Banking
4 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.30%) Aviation
6 1 (1.30%) Back Office
6 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Developer
2 7 (9.09%) Architect
2 7 (9.09%) DBA
2 7 (9.09%) Senior
3 6 (7.79%) DataStage Developer
3 6 (7.79%) Mainframe Specialist
4 5 (6.49%) Administrator
4 5 (6.49%) DB2 Specialist
5 4 (5.19%) Incident Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Lead
5 4 (5.19%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Java Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Migration Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Payments Architect
6 3 (3.90%) Production Manager
6 3 (3.90%) Senior DBA
6 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
6 3 (3.90%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) Kafka
2 7 (9.09%) Middleware
2 7 (9.09%) Web Services
3 6 (7.79%) SOAP
3 6 (7.79%) Spring
3 6 (7.79%) Spring Boot
4 5 (6.49%) REST
5 4 (5.19%) JSON
5 4 (5.19%) LDAP
6 3 (3.90%) .NET
6 3 (3.90%) .NET Framework
6 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.90%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (3.90%) Dapper ORM
6 3 (3.90%) Entity Framework
6 3 (3.90%) ISPF
6 3 (3.90%) NHibernate
6 3 (3.90%) RESTful
6 3 (3.90%) Terraform
6 3 (3.90%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 40 (51.95%) Mainframe
2 9 (11.69%) VSAM
3 6 (7.79%) Replication
4 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.19%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.19%) PKI
5 3 (3.90%) AS400
5 3 (3.90%) Clustering
5 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.90%) DataPower
5 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.90%) Online Banking
6 2 (2.60%) iSeries
6 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.60%) Synthetic Data
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.47%) zOS
2 19 (24.68%) Unix
3 15 (19.48%) Windows
4 8 (10.39%) Linux
5 2 (2.60%) MVS
6 1 (1.30%) AIX
6 1 (1.30%) Android
6 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.30%) Solaris
6 1 (1.30%) SUSE
6 1 (1.30%) VMS
6 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.26%) Migration
2 26 (33.77%) Performance Tuning
2 26 (33.77%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (19.48%) Change Management
3 15 (19.48%) Validation
4 14 (18.18%) ETL
4 14 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (15.58%) CI/CD
5 12 (15.58%) Data Modelling
6 11 (14.29%) Data Migration
7 10 (12.99%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (12.99%) SDLC
8 9 (11.69%) Data Integration
8 9 (11.69%) Data Reconciliation
8 9 (11.69%) ITIL
8 9 (11.69%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (10.39%) Batch Processing
9 8 (10.39%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (9.09%) Batch Scheduling
10 7 (9.09%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) SQL
2 24 (31.17%) JCL
3 17 (22.08%) COBOL
4 15 (19.48%) Shell Script
5 10 (12.99%) Java
5 10 (12.99%) PL/SQL
5 10 (12.99%) Python
6 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.19%) REXX
7 3 (3.90%) C#
8 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.60%) RPG
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) CLIST
9 1 (1.30%) RPG IV
9 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.60%) CISA
3 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.90%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) SEPA
2 3 (3.90%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) RACF
2 5 (6.49%) ACF2
3 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.19%) NFS
4 2 (2.60%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (1.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Control-M
2 4 (5.19%) CA Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.60%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) OMEGAMON
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (42.86%) IBM
2 18 (23.38%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Sybase
4 7 (9.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (7.79%) Teradata
6 4 (5.19%) Broadcom
6 4 (5.19%) Greenplum
6 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.90%) Databricks
7 3 (3.90%) Informatica
7 3 (3.90%) SAP
8 1 (1.30%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.30%) BMC
8 1 (1.30%) Confluent
8 1 (1.30%) Google
8 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.30%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.30%) LANSA
8 1 (1.30%) Solace
8 1 (1.30%) Talend