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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 418 368 499
Rank change year-on-year -50 +131 +44
Contract jobs citing DB2 94 161 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.49% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.87% 2.68% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 98 40
10th Percentile £340 £363 £337
25th Percentile £378 £425 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.68% +1.25% -8.26%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £650
90th Percentile £625 £741 -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%

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 5,029 6,003 7,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.10% 18.23% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,465 4,163 4,959
10th Percentile £335 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £545
% change year-on-year -6.19% -2.20% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 140
10th Percentile £21.23 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.33 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -31.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.50 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.22%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 58 £500 - 12
North of England -16 22 £402 -23.43% 7
North West -6 17 £402 -9.66% 6
East of England +3 6 £550 +46.67%
Midlands -57 6 £350 -36.36% 3
Yorkshire -25 5 £340 -43.33%
East Midlands -2 4 £345 -22.47% 3
West Midlands -51 2 £425 -22.73%
South East +15 1 £350 -2.23% 6
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (20.21%) WebSphere
2 15 (15.96%) CICS
3 8 (8.51%) Apache
4 7 (7.45%) IIS
4 7 (7.45%) JBoss
4 7 (7.45%) Tomcat
4 7 (7.45%) WebLogic
5 5 (5.32%) Confluence
6 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.06%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (1.06%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Maximo
2 2 (2.13%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.06%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (26.60%) AWS
2 10 (10.64%) Azure
3 6 (6.38%) GCP
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.13%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.13%) Serverless
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.06%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.06%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (1.06%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.13%) Internet
1 2 (2.13%) LAN
1 2 (2.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.79%) Relational Database
2 25 (26.60%) MongoDB
3 22 (23.40%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.57%) Hadoop
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (7.45%) NoSQL
7 6 (6.38%) MemSQL
7 6 (6.38%) Sybase IQ
8 3 (3.19%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.13%) Adabas
9 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.13%) IMS/DB
9 2 (2.13%) MySQL
9 2 (2.13%) Power BI
9 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.06%) Informix
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (21.28%) JUnit
2 13 (13.83%) Git
3 12 (12.77%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.64%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.51%) JIRA
5 8 (8.51%) Selenium
6 7 (7.45%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.32%) Maven
8 3 (3.19%) Eclipse
8 3 (3.19%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.19%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.19%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.13%) GitLab
9 2 (2.13%) SOAtest
9 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio
10 1 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.06%) Mockito
10 1 (1.06%) SoapUI
10 1 (1.06%) Subversion
10 1 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 43 (45.74%) Finance
2 40 (42.55%) Social Skills
3 37 (39.36%) Banking
4 35 (37.23%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (19.15%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.13%) Front Office
7 2 (2.13%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.06%) Arabic Language
8 1 (1.06%) French Language
8 1 (1.06%) German Language
8 1 (1.06%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.06%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (45.74%) Developer
2 30 (31.91%) Java Developer
3 21 (22.34%) Senior
4 19 (20.21%) Senior Developer
4 19 (20.21%) Senior Java Developer
5 18 (19.15%) Linux Developer
6 17 (18.09%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 17 (18.09%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 17 (18.09%) Senior SQL Developer
6 17 (18.09%) SQL Developer
7 14 (14.89%) Consultant
8 8 (8.51%) Scrum Master
9 7 (7.45%) Maximo Consultant
10 6 (6.38%) Mainframe Developer
11 5 (5.32%) Administrator
11 5 (5.32%) Programmer
12 4 (4.26%) Architect
12 4 (4.26%) Mainframe Programmer
12 4 (4.26%) Systems Programmer
12 4 (4.26%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.91%) Spring
2 24 (25.53%) Web Services
3 21 (22.34%) Kafka
4 19 (20.21%) SOAP
5 17 (18.09%) JMS
6 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
7 11 (11.70%) XML
8 10 (10.64%) WSDL
9 9 (9.57%) HTML
9 9 (9.57%) REST
10 8 (8.51%) RAML
11 7 (7.45%) J2EE
12 6 (6.38%) JSON
12 6 (6.38%) React
12 6 (6.38%) RESTful
13 5 (5.32%) CSS
13 5 (5.32%) Node.js
14 4 (4.26%) EJB
14 4 (4.26%) JSP
14 4 (4.26%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.53%) Mainframe
2 23 (24.47%) Data Structures
3 17 (18.09%) Equities
4 9 (9.57%) VSAM
5 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
6 7 (7.45%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (7.45%) IBM Mainframe
6 7 (7.45%) Private Cloud
7 6 (6.38%) Algorithms
8 5 (5.32%) AS400
8 5 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (5.32%) Replication
9 4 (4.26%) iSeries
10 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (2.13%) DataPower
11 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (2.13%) Mobile Payment
11 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
11 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
11 2 (2.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 29 (30.85%) Linux
2 11 (11.70%) Windows
3 9 (9.57%) Unix
4 7 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 7 (7.45%) zOS
5 3 (3.19%) AIX
6 2 (2.13%) MVS
6 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.13%) VMS
7 1 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (45.74%) Agile
2 41 (43.62%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (31.91%) SDLC
4 25 (26.60%) Performance Tuning
5 21 (22.34%) CI/CD
6 18 (19.15%) Multithreading
7 17 (18.09%) Database Tuning
7 17 (18.09%) DevOps
7 17 (18.09%) Open Source
8 14 (14.89%) Migration
9 13 (13.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (12.77%) Scrum
10 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.70%) Service Management
12 10 (10.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 10 (10.64%) High Availability
12 10 (10.64%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (10.64%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.57%) API Development
14 8 (8.51%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (58.51%) SQL
2 48 (51.06%) Java
3 39 (41.49%) Python
4 23 (24.47%) Shell Script
5 19 (20.21%) JavaScript
6 17 (18.09%) JCL
7 16 (17.02%) COBOL
8 6 (6.38%) REXX
9 3 (3.19%) Assembly Language
9 3 (3.19%) Bash
9 3 (3.19%) C++
9 3 (3.19%) PL/1
9 3 (3.19%) RPG
10 2 (2.13%) C
10 2 (2.13%) Natural
10 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.13%) RPG IV
10 2 (2.13%) VB
10 2 (2.13%) VBA
10 2 (2.13%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.19%) Degree
4 1 (1.06%) CFA
4 1 (1.06%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) QA
2 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) Docker
2 5 (5.32%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (2.13%) RACF
4 1 (1.06%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 13 (13.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.06%) Control-M
3 1 (1.06%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (1.06%) Linux-HA
3 1 (1.06%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (1.06%) Pacemaker
3 1 (1.06%) TADDM
3 1 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.06%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) IBM
2 22 (23.40%) Oracle
3 20 (21.28%) Sybase
4 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.32%) Cognos
6 3 (3.19%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.19%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.19%) Informatica
6 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.19%) Splunk
6 3 (3.19%) Syncsort
7 2 (2.13%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.13%) Guidewire
7 2 (2.13%) Parasoft
7 2 (2.13%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) Advent
8 1 (1.06%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.06%) Remedy