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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 420 447
Rank change year-on-year -112 +27 +60
Contract jobs citing Db2 81 89 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 1.80% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 46 67
10th Percentile £304 £358 £358
25th Percentile £367 £401 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £730
UK median daily rate £525 £472 £468
% change year-on-year +11.23% +0.91% -14.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

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 6,897 4,946 6,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.32% 18.25% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,637 3,431 4,719
10th Percentile £352 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £640 £675
90th Percentile £705 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 91 129
10th Percentile £15.07 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £24.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -31.73%
75th Percentile £72.25 £62.88 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.10
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.86% -9.09% -33.67%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -49 54 £550 +10.00% 11
North of England -74 19 £363 -13.59% 4
North West -58 10 £304 -24.38% 1
Yorkshire -45 8 £520 -5.55% 2
South East -60 4 £386 -6.42% 4
Midlands -64 1 - - 2
West Midlands -67 1 - -
North East - 1 £363 - 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 19 (23.46%) CICS
2 3 (3.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Apache
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) Documentum
3 1 (1.23%) FileNet
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.23%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (12.35%) Azure
2 10 (12.35%) Serverless
3 9 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (8.64%) GitHub
5 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (4.94%) AWS Fargate
6 4 (4.94%) IaaS
6 4 (4.94%) PaaS
6 4 (4.94%) SaaS
7 3 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.70%) GCP
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.47%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) NAS
1 4 (4.94%) SAN
2 3 (3.70%) DHCP
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 3 (3.70%) Firewall
2 3 (3.70%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.05%) SQL Server
2 12 (14.81%) Relational Database
3 10 (12.35%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (9.88%) DynamoDB
6 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (7.41%) DataStage
7 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.47%) Couchbase
9 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.47%) Metadata
9 2 (2.47%) OLTP
9 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (2.47%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.23%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) GitLab
2 6 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.94%) JUnit
4 3 (3.70%) JIRA
5 2 (2.47%) JMeter
5 2 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.47%) Postman
6 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.23%) ChangeMan
6 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.23%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.23%) ERwin
6 1 (1.23%) Gradle
6 1 (1.23%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (1.23%) Selenium
6 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.23%) Visual LANSA
6 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.23%) XPEDITER
General
1 24 (29.63%) Finance
2 23 (28.40%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.93%) Banking
4 11 (13.58%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) German Language
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
8 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Developer
2 10 (12.35%) Architect
3 9 (11.11%) Programmer
3 9 (11.11%) Systems Programmer
3 9 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
4 8 (9.88%) Data Architect
4 8 (9.88%) DB2 Programmer
4 8 (9.88%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 8 (9.88%) Mainframe Programmer
4 8 (9.88%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 7 (8.64%) Mainframe Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Mainframe Specialist
6 6 (7.41%) Senior
7 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) DataStage Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Incident Manager
7 4 (4.94%) Major Incident Manager
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.05%) Web Services
2 11 (13.58%) RESTful
3 9 (11.11%) JSON
3 9 (11.11%) Kafka
3 9 (11.11%) Spring
4 8 (9.88%) Spring Boot
5 7 (8.64%) React
5 7 (8.64%) REST
5 7 (8.64%) SOAP
5 7 (8.64%) WSDL
6 4 (4.94%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.70%) Backbone.js
7 3 (3.70%) CSS
7 3 (3.70%) Ember.js
7 3 (3.70%) HTML
7 3 (3.70%) jQuery
7 3 (3.70%) LDAP
7 3 (3.70%) Middleware
7 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
7 3 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (58.02%) Mainframe
2 10 (12.35%) VSAM
3 7 (8.64%) DataPower
4 6 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.41%) Online Banking
5 4 (4.94%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.70%) Clustering
6 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.70%) PKI
7 2 (2.47%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.47%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.23%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.10%) zOS
2 20 (24.69%) Unix
3 18 (22.22%) Windows
4 13 (16.05%) Linux
5 7 (8.64%) AIX
6 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.70%) Android
7 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.47%) MVS
9 1 (1.23%) Solaris
9 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.46%) Migration
2 19 (23.46%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (14.81%) CI/CD
4 11 (13.58%) Agile
5 10 (12.35%) Data Migration
5 10 (12.35%) ETL
6 9 (11.11%) AI
6 9 (11.11%) Batch Processing
6 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 9 (11.11%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (9.88%) Analytics
7 8 (9.88%) DevOps
7 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (9.88%) Validation
8 7 (8.64%) Microservices
8 7 (8.64%) SDLC
8 7 (8.64%) SOA
8 7 (8.64%) TDD
9 6 (7.41%) Data Reconciliation
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) SQL
2 18 (22.22%) JCL
3 15 (18.52%) Python
4 13 (16.05%) Shell Script
5 12 (14.81%) COBOL
5 12 (14.81%) Java
6 9 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 7 (8.64%) PL/SQL
8 6 (7.41%) Bash
9 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.47%) REXX
11 1 (1.23%) Bicep
11 1 (1.23%) CLIST
11 1 (1.23%) Perl
11 1 (1.23%) RPG
11 1 (1.23%) RPG IV
11 1 (1.23%) Scala
11 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (6.17%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.70%) CISA
3 3 (3.70%) PhD
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) CISM
5 1 (1.23%) CISSP
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) SEPA
3 1 (1.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (7.41%) Hyper-V
1 6 (7.41%) KVM
1 6 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.17%) Docker
3 4 (4.94%) NFS
3 4 (4.94%) RACF
4 3 (3.70%) ACF2
4 3 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.41%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (7.41%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.70%) CA Endevor
3 3 (3.70%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.47%) Terraform
5 1 (1.23%) Ansible
5 1 (1.23%) Control-M
5 1 (1.23%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.23%) Grafana
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (37.04%) IBM
2 14 (17.28%) Oracle
3 10 (12.35%) Sybase
4 4 (4.94%) Greenplum
4 4 (4.94%) Teradata
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.47%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) Solace
7 1 (1.23%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.23%) Databricks
7 1 (1.23%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.23%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.23%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) LANSA
7 1 (1.23%) Perforce