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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 389 497
Rank change year-on-year -67 +108 +73
Contract jobs citing DB2 88 129 66
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.28% 0.45% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 2.48% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 32
10th Percentile £344 £370 £425
25th Percentile £400 £425 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -6.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £580 £649 £650
90th Percentile £720 £759 £734
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +4.07%
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 5,372 5,200 6,183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 18.15% 16.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,740 3,458 4,417
10th Percentile £325 £350 £356
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £618 £663 £660
90th Percentile £723 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 74 127
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.74 £17.79
25th Percentile £29.13 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -16.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.67 £64.52
90th Percentile £84.60 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £47.61 £30.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.61% -34.17% -10.76%

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 22 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 22 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 +5 58 £525 +5.00% 15
North of England -39 18 £447 -22.26% 4
North West -15 13 £442 - 4
Yorkshire -51 5 £450 -25.00%
East of England -31 3 £550 +46.67% 2
South East -21 1 £350 -12.50% 5
Midlands -73 1 - - 2
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 9 (10.23%) CICS
2 8 (9.09%) WebSphere
3 6 (6.82%) WebLogic
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (4.55%) Confluence
6 3 (3.41%) NetWeaver
7 2 (2.27%) Apache
7 2 (2.27%) IIS
8 1 (1.14%) JBoss
8 1 (1.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Advent Geneva
2 5 (5.68%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (3.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.27%) Loan IQ
4 2 (2.27%) Maximo
5 1 (1.14%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 25 (28.41%) AWS
2 9 (10.23%) Azure
3 7 (7.95%) GCP
4 5 (5.68%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.41%) Serverless
7 2 (2.27%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.27%) Collibra
7 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.14%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.95%) Relational Database
2 24 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 20 (22.73%) MongoDB
4 18 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (10.23%) MySQL
5 9 (10.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (5.68%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.68%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.55%) MemSQL
7 4 (4.55%) Power BI
7 4 (4.55%) Sybase IQ
8 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.41%) DataStage
8 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.41%) Metadata
8 3 (3.41%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.41%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (18.18%) JUnit
2 7 (7.95%) JIRA
3 6 (6.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.41%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.41%) GitLab
5 3 (3.41%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (3.41%) Selenium
5 3 (3.41%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.27%) Git
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.14%) Maven
7 1 (1.14%) Mockito
7 1 (1.14%) Postman
7 1 (1.14%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.14%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.14%) Subversion
7 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.14%) Xcode
General
1 43 (48.86%) Social Skills
2 33 (37.50%) Finance
3 27 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (30.68%) Banking
4 13 (14.77%) Investment Banking
5 9 (10.23%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Front Office
9 1 (1.14%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.14%) French Language
9 1 (1.14%) German Language
9 1 (1.14%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.14%) Korean Language
9 1 (1.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 46 (52.27%) Developer
2 23 (26.14%) Java Developer
3 21 (23.86%) Senior
4 15 (17.05%) Senior Developer
4 15 (17.05%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Linux Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (13.64%) Senior SQL Developer
5 12 (13.64%) SQL Developer
6 11 (12.50%) Consultant
7 7 (7.95%) Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Database Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Architect
8 6 (6.82%) Senior Database Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Mainframe Developer
9 5 (5.68%) TIBCO Developer
10 4 (4.55%) DBA
11 3 (3.41%) Administrator
11 3 (3.41%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) Kafka
1 19 (21.59%) Spring
2 17 (19.32%) JMS
3 13 (14.77%) Web Services
4 11 (12.50%) SOAP
5 9 (10.23%) .NET
6 8 (9.09%) WSDL
7 7 (7.95%) HTML
7 7 (7.95%) Spring Boot
7 7 (7.95%) XML
7 7 (7.95%) XSLT
8 6 (6.82%) J2EE
9 5 (5.68%) CSS
9 5 (5.68%) OC4J
9 5 (5.68%) REST
9 5 (5.68%) TIBCO EMS
9 5 (5.68%) XSD
10 4 (4.55%) RESTful
11 3 (3.41%) Node.js
11 3 (3.41%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (19.32%) Data Structures
2 16 (18.18%) Mainframe
3 12 (13.64%) Equities
4 8 (9.09%) Replication
4 8 (9.09%) Virtual Team
5 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.82%) VSAM
6 5 (5.68%) IBM Mainframe
6 5 (5.68%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.55%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.41%) AS400
8 3 (3.41%) Clustering
8 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.27%) DataPower
9 2 (2.27%) iSeries
9 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.86%) Linux
2 8 (9.09%) zOS
3 6 (6.82%) Windows
4 5 (5.68%) Unix
5 2 (2.27%) AIX
5 2 (2.27%) MVS
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 2 (2.27%) VMS
5 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.64%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.82%) Agile
2 28 (31.82%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (20.45%) SDLC
4 16 (18.18%) Migration
5 13 (14.77%) Multithreading
5 13 (14.77%) Open Source
6 12 (13.64%) Database Tuning
7 10 (11.36%) High Availability
8 9 (10.23%) Change Data Capture
8 9 (10.23%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
9 8 (9.09%) Design Patterns
9 8 (9.09%) Fund Accounting
9 8 (9.09%) Microservices
9 8 (9.09%) Software Engineering
10 7 (7.95%) Validation
11 6 (6.82%) Integration Testing
11 6 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 6 (6.82%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.82%) SQL
2 31 (35.23%) Java
3 26 (29.55%) Python
4 15 (17.05%) Shell Script
5 11 (12.50%) JCL
6 9 (10.23%) COBOL
6 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
7 6 (6.82%) Assembly Language
7 6 (6.82%) XPath
8 5 (5.68%) REXX
9 4 (4.55%) HLASM
10 3 (3.41%) Groovy
10 3 (3.41%) PL/1
11 2 (2.27%) Bash
11 2 (2.27%) Natural
11 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.27%) VB
11 2 (2.27%) VBA
12 1 (1.14%) Perl
12 1 (1.14%) RPG
Qualifications
1 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.41%) Degree
3 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) GPEN
4 1 (1.14%) GWAPT
4 1 (1.14%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.27%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.14%) RACF
3 1 (1.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.68%) TIBCO Hawk
3 4 (4.55%) OMEGAMON
4 3 (3.41%) Ansible
4 3 (3.41%) CA Endevor
5 2 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (2.27%) Linux-HA
5 2 (2.27%) Pacemaker
6 1 (1.14%) Control-M
6 1 (1.14%) Grafana
6 1 (1.14%) TADDM
6 1 (1.14%) Terraform
6 1 (1.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) IBM
2 21 (23.86%) Oracle
3 15 (17.05%) Sybase
4 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.23%) Advent
6 6 (6.82%) ServiceNow
7 5 (5.68%) BEA
7 5 (5.68%) TIBCO
8 4 (4.55%) Informatica
8 4 (4.55%) SAP
9 3 (3.41%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.41%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.41%) Cognos
10 2 (2.27%) Guidewire
10 2 (2.27%) Remedy
10 2 (2.27%) Syncsort
11 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.14%) Google
11 1 (1.14%) RightFax
11 1 (1.14%) Splunk