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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 509 408 463
Rank change year-on-year -101 +55 +38
Contract jobs citing DB2 71 70 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.29% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 1.53% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 48
10th Percentile £346 £358 £348
25th Percentile £456 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% -5.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £585 £568 £613
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £458 £470
% change year-on-year +20.22% -2.66% -14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

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 6,192 4,588 6,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 19.02% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,250 3,197 4,459
10th Percentile £350 £363 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 86 131
10th Percentile £16.07 £21.03 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.92 £23.69 £20.98
Median hourly rate £45.90 £32.43 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -19.43% -28.63%
75th Percentile £74.00 £65.46 £60.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +37.80% -13.75% -31.73%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -48 53 £550 +22.22% 8
North of England -67 13 £406 +1.06% 1
North West -39 9 £301 -25.25%
Yorkshire -53 3 £514 -6.55% 1
South East -57 1 £290 -38.95% 3
North East - 1 £363 -
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 15 (21.13%) CICS
2 3 (4.23%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.82%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) Documentum
4 1 (1.41%) FileNet
4 1 (1.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.41%) Advent Geneva
Cloud Services
1 24 (33.80%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (11.27%) Serverless
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 6 (8.45%) Amazon S3
4 6 (8.45%) GitHub
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (5.63%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (5.63%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) Firewall
1 1 (1.41%) NAS
1 1 (1.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (18.31%) SQL Server
3 11 (15.49%) Relational Database
4 9 (12.68%) NoSQL
5 7 (9.86%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (5.63%) DataStage
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.82%) Metadata
9 2 (2.82%) Power BI
10 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.41%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.41%) OLTP
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.86%) GitLab
2 4 (5.63%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.63%) JUnit
3 3 (4.23%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (2.82%) JIRA
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) ChangeMan
5 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.41%) ER Studio
5 1 (1.41%) ERwin
5 1 (1.41%) JMeter
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.41%) Postman
5 1 (1.41%) Selenium
5 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.41%) XPEDITER
General
1 20 (28.17%) Banking
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 18 (25.35%) Social Skills
4 8 (11.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) German Language
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Architect
3 9 (12.68%) Data Architect
4 8 (11.27%) DB2 Programmer
4 8 (11.27%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 8 (11.27%) Programmer
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
4 8 (11.27%) Systems Programmer
4 8 (11.27%) Technical Specialist
5 7 (9.86%) Mainframe Programmer
5 7 (9.86%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 5 (7.04%) Java Developer
6 5 (7.04%) Mainframe Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.23%) Mainframe Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Mainframe Specialist
8 3 (4.23%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (18.31%) Web Services
2 9 (12.68%) RESTful
3 8 (11.27%) Kafka
3 8 (11.27%) Spring
4 7 (9.86%) REST
4 7 (9.86%) SOAP
4 7 (9.86%) Spring Boot
4 7 (9.86%) WSDL
5 6 (8.45%) JSON
5 6 (8.45%) React
6 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.63%) XSLT
7 3 (4.23%) Backbone.js
7 3 (4.23%) Bootstrap
7 3 (4.23%) Ember.js
7 3 (4.23%) Hugging Face
7 3 (4.23%) jQuery
7 3 (4.23%) Keras
7 3 (4.23%) PyTorch
7 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (53.52%) Mainframe
2 9 (12.68%) VSAM
3 6 (8.45%) DataPower
3 6 (8.45%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.63%) Online Banking
5 3 (4.23%) Clustering
5 3 (4.23%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.82%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.41%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.41%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 25 (35.21%) zOS
2 14 (19.72%) Linux
2 14 (19.72%) Windows
3 12 (16.90%) Unix
4 6 (8.45%) AIX
4 6 (8.45%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.23%) Android
5 3 (4.23%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.82%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) Migration
2 20 (28.17%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.49%) Data Migration
5 10 (14.08%) Agile
6 9 (12.68%) AI
6 9 (12.68%) Validation
7 8 (11.27%) Batch Processing
7 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
7 8 (11.27%) Data Modelling
7 8 (11.27%) ETL
8 7 (9.86%) Analytics
8 7 (9.86%) Design Patterns
8 7 (9.86%) Integration Patterns
8 7 (9.86%) Microservices
8 7 (9.86%) SOA
9 6 (8.45%) Asset Management
9 6 (8.45%) Change Data Capture
9 6 (8.45%) Virtual Environments
10 5 (7.04%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 29 (40.85%) SQL
2 14 (19.72%) JCL
3 13 (18.31%) Python
4 10 (14.08%) Java
5 9 (12.68%) COBOL
6 7 (9.86%) PowerShell
7 6 (8.45%) Bash
7 6 (8.45%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.63%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.63%) REXX
9 3 (4.23%) Assembly Language
9 3 (4.23%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.23%) XPath
10 2 (2.82%) HLASM
11 1 (1.41%) CLIST
11 1 (1.41%) Groovy
11 1 (1.41%) Perl
11 1 (1.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.23%) CISA
2 3 (4.23%) PhD
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.41%) CISM
4 1 (1.41%) CISSP
4 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.82%) SEPA
3 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.45%) Hyper-V
1 6 (8.45%) KVM
1 6 (8.45%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (7.04%) Docker
3 3 (4.23%) RACF
4 2 (2.82%) ACF2
5 1 (1.41%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.45%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (8.45%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) CA Endevor
3 2 (2.82%) Grafana
3 2 (2.82%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 27 (38.03%) IBM
2 12 (16.90%) Oracle
3 6 (8.45%) Sybase
4 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.82%) BEA
5 2 (2.82%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.82%) Teradata
5 2 (2.82%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.41%) Advent
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.41%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.41%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.41%) Informatica
6 1 (1.41%) Perforce
6 1 (1.41%) Remedy
6 1 (1.41%) Solace