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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 374 511
Rank change year-on-year -78 +137 +29
Contract jobs citing DB2 92 139 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.31% 0.45% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 2.52% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 83 36
10th Percentile £340 £380 £331
25th Percentile £389 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £650
90th Percentile £700 £761 -
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

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 5,303 5,515 6,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.06% 17.84% 16.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,642 3,715 4,698
10th Percentile £328 £350 £362
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £735 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £534
% change year-on-year -5.66% -0.75% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 80 140
10th Percentile £19.94 £17.95 £19.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.98 £25.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -26.62% -4.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.19 £69.06
90th Percentile £85.30 £66.00 £78.08
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £31.55 £47.50
% change year-on-year +37.90% -33.59% -5.00%

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 November 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 4 November 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 -4 60 £500 - 15
North of England -45 17 £447 -25.50% 11
North West -15 12 £447 -1.76% 7
Midlands -54 7 £350 -39.13% 1
East of England -17 6 £550 +46.67%
Yorkshire -39 5 £395 -34.17% 2
East Midlands - 4 £345 - 1
West Midlands -57 2 £425 -26.09%
South East +4 1 £350 -12.50% 7
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 12 (13.04%) WebSphere
2 9 (9.78%) CICS
3 7 (7.61%) Apache
3 7 (7.61%) IIS
4 5 (5.43%) WebLogic
5 4 (4.35%) Confluence
6 3 (3.26%) NetWeaver
6 3 (3.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (2.17%) JBoss
7 2 (2.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Maximo
2 4 (4.35%) Advent Geneva
3 3 (3.26%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.17%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) AWS
2 12 (13.04%) Azure
3 8 (8.70%) GCP
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon Kinesis
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon S3
4 5 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (5.43%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (5.43%) Serverless
5 4 (4.35%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.09%) Collibra
7 1 (1.09%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
1 1 (1.09%) Internet
1 1 (1.09%) LAN
1 1 (1.09%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.04%) Relational Database
2 26 (28.26%) MongoDB
2 26 (28.26%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.96%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.61%) Hadoop
4 7 (7.61%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.52%) MemSQL
5 6 (6.52%) Sybase IQ
6 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.43%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.43%) RDBMS
7 4 (4.35%) MySQL
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.26%) Power BI
8 3 (3.26%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.17%) IMS/DB
9 2 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) JUnit
2 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) Cucumber
3 7 (7.61%) Git
3 7 (7.61%) JIRA
4 6 (6.52%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.52%) Selenium
5 5 (5.43%) Maven
6 3 (3.26%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.26%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.26%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.17%) GitLab
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.09%) Postman
8 1 (1.09%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.09%) Xcode
8 1 (1.09%) XCTest
General
1 43 (46.74%) Social Skills
2 37 (40.22%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (36.96%) Finance
4 31 (33.70%) Banking
5 18 (19.57%) Investment Banking
6 6 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.17%) Front Office
8 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Arabic Language
9 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) French Language
9 1 (1.09%) German Language
9 1 (1.09%) Japanese Language
9 1 (1.09%) Korean Language
9 1 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (52.17%) Developer
2 32 (34.78%) Java Developer
3 27 (29.35%) Senior
4 22 (23.91%) Senior Developer
4 22 (23.91%) Senior Java Developer
5 17 (18.48%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (18.48%) Linux Developer
5 17 (18.48%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 17 (18.48%) Senior SQL Developer
5 17 (18.48%) SQL Developer
6 15 (16.30%) Consultant
7 7 (7.61%) Maximo Consultant
8 5 (5.43%) Administrator
8 5 (5.43%) AWS Developer
8 5 (5.43%) Programmer
9 4 (4.35%) Architect
9 4 (4.35%) DB2 Administrator
9 4 (4.35%) Mainframe Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Mainframe Programmer
9 4 (4.35%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (28.26%) Spring
2 25 (27.17%) Kafka
3 20 (21.74%) JMS
4 16 (17.39%) Web Services
5 15 (16.30%) SOAP
6 11 (11.96%) XML
7 9 (9.78%) Spring Boot
8 8 (8.70%) HTML
9 7 (7.61%) WSDL
10 5 (5.43%) .NET
10 5 (5.43%) CSS
10 5 (5.43%) REST
11 4 (4.35%) J2EE
11 4 (4.35%) Node.js
11 4 (4.35%) React
11 4 (4.35%) RESTful
11 4 (4.35%) XSLT
12 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (3.26%) Gherkin
12 3 (3.26%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 17 (18.48%) Equities
2 17 (18.48%) Mainframe
3 8 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.61%) Replication
5 6 (6.52%) Algorithms
6 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (5.43%) Virtual Team
7 4 (4.35%) AS400
7 4 (4.35%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (4.35%) VSAM
8 3 (3.26%) Clustering
8 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (3.26%) iSeries
8 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
9 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
10 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (30.43%) Linux
2 11 (11.96%) Windows
3 7 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.43%) Unix
5 4 (4.35%) zOS
6 2 (2.17%) AIX
6 2 (2.17%) MVS
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 2 (2.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (39.13%) Agile
3 28 (30.43%) Performance Tuning
4 27 (29.35%) SDLC
5 18 (19.57%) CI/CD
5 18 (19.57%) Multithreading
5 18 (19.57%) Open Source
6 17 (18.48%) Database Tuning
7 12 (13.04%) DevOps
8 11 (11.96%) Migration
8 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.87%) High Availability
9 10 (10.87%) Microservices
10 9 (9.78%) Service Management
11 8 (8.70%) Code Quality
11 8 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (8.70%) Integration Testing
11 8 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (8.70%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.61%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 57 (61.96%) SQL
2 42 (45.65%) Java
3 37 (40.22%) Python
4 21 (22.83%) Shell Script
5 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.96%) JCL
7 10 (10.87%) COBOL
8 4 (4.35%) XPath
9 3 (3.26%) PL/1
10 2 (2.17%) Bash
10 2 (2.17%) Groovy
10 2 (2.17%) Natural
10 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.17%) REXX
10 2 (2.17%) RPG
10 2 (2.17%) VB
10 2 (2.17%) VBA
11 1 (1.09%) Assembly Language
11 1 (1.09%) Korn
11 1 (1.09%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) CFA
4 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.09%) GPEN
4 1 (1.09%) GWAPT
4 1 (1.09%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.09%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.17%) RACF
4 1 (1.09%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.26%) CA Endevor
2 3 (3.26%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (2.17%) Linux-HA
3 2 (2.17%) Pacemaker
4 1 (1.09%) Control-M
4 1 (1.09%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.09%) TADDM
4 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
4 1 (1.09%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 27 (29.35%) IBM
2 22 (23.91%) Sybase
3 20 (21.74%) Oracle
4 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
5 5 (5.43%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (5.43%) Cognos
6 4 (4.35%) Advent
6 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 4 (4.35%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.26%) BEA
7 3 (3.26%) Informatica
7 3 (3.26%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.17%) Guidewire
8 2 (2.17%) Splunk
8 2 (2.17%) Syncsort
9 1 (1.09%) FNZ
9 1 (1.09%) RightFax
9 1 (1.09%) StreamSets