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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 554 420 377
Rank change year-on-year -134 -43 +142
Contract jobs citing Db2 68 88 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.32% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.97% 1.77% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 96
10th Percentile £300 £340 £365
25th Percentile £362 £380 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £519
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -13.83% +3.75%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £621
90th Percentile £649 £729 £744
UK median daily rate £507 £461 £500
% change year-on-year +9.98% -7.80% -11.11%

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 6,991 4,984 6,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.23% 17.96% 18.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,668 3,433 4,288
10th Percentile £360 £335 £350
25th Percentile £423 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £619 £638 £675
90th Percentile £709 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 80 90
10th Percentile £14.85 £21.02 £14.19
25th Percentile £23.75 £29.05 £19.87
Median hourly rate £38.50 £38.23 £33.22
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +15.10% -39.61%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £75.20 £78.88 £69.93
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £38.85 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.89% +19.52% -40.91%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -91 39 £550 +9.45% 20
North of England -71 18 £363 -9.83% 6
Yorkshire -37 11 £514 +51.18% 5
North West -68 6 £304 -24.38% 1
South East -63 4 £386 +10.29%
West Midlands -39 1 - - 1
Midlands -52 1 - - 7
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 17 (25.00%) CICS
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) Documentum
3 1 (1.47%) FileNet
3 1 (1.47%) PowerExchange
3 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) AWS
2 9 (13.24%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.82%) Serverless
5 5 (7.35%) IaaS
5 5 (7.35%) PaaS
5 5 (7.35%) SaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.94%) GitHub
7 2 (2.94%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.47%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.47%) Collibra
8 1 (1.47%) dbt
8 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.47%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) NAS
1 5 (7.35%) SAN
2 4 (5.88%) DHCP
2 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 4 (5.88%) Firewall
2 4 (5.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) Relational Database
2 9 (13.24%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 7 (10.29%) DataStage
4 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.35%) OLTP
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (5.88%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.41%) Metadata
7 3 (4.41%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.94%) Couchbase
8 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.94%) Power BI
8 2 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) GitLab
2 2 (2.94%) Flyway
2 2 (2.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) JMeter
2 2 (2.94%) Liquibase
2 2 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (2.94%) Postman
3 1 (1.47%) CA Gen
3 1 (1.47%) ChangeMan
3 1 (1.47%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.47%) ERwin
3 1 (1.47%) Gradle
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Developer 2000
3 1 (1.47%) Visual LANSA
General
1 26 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (36.76%) Finance
3 24 (35.29%) Banking
4 15 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.94%) Retail
7 1 (1.47%) German Language
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.59%) Developer
2 8 (11.76%) Architect
3 6 (8.82%) Mainframe Specialist
4 5 (7.35%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) DataStage Developer
4 5 (7.35%) DB2 Specialist
4 5 (7.35%) Incident Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Major Incident Manager
4 5 (7.35%) Programmer
4 5 (7.35%) Senior
4 5 (7.35%) Systems Programmer
5 4 (5.88%) Administrator
5 4 (5.88%) DB2 Programmer
5 4 (5.88%) DB2 Systems Programmer
5 4 (5.88%) DBA
5 4 (5.88%) Mainframe Programmer
5 4 (5.88%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 3 (4.41%) Mainframe Developer
6 3 (4.41%) Production Manager
6 3 (4.41%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) Web Services
2 6 (8.82%) JSON
2 6 (8.82%) Kafka
2 6 (8.82%) SOAP
3 5 (7.35%) Middleware
3 5 (7.35%) REST
3 5 (7.35%) Spring
3 5 (7.35%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.88%) LDAP
4 4 (5.88%) RESTful
4 4 (5.88%) WSDL
5 3 (4.41%) ISPF
5 3 (4.41%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) XML
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC 5
6 2 (2.94%) NHibernate
6 2 (2.94%) PySpark
6 2 (2.94%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 41 (60.29%) Mainframe
2 11 (16.18%) VSAM
3 5 (7.35%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.88%) DataPower
4 4 (5.88%) Online Banking
4 4 (5.88%) PKI
5 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.41%) Clustering
5 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.41%) Replication
6 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.94%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.47%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) zOS
2 16 (23.53%) Unix
3 10 (14.71%) Windows
4 3 (4.41%) Linux
5 2 (2.94%) MVS
6 1 (1.47%) AIX
6 1 (1.47%) Solaris
6 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (33.82%) Performance Tuning
3 22 (32.35%) Migration
4 13 (19.12%) Data Modelling
4 13 (19.12%) ETL
5 11 (16.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (14.71%) Change Management
6 10 (14.71%) SDLC
6 10 (14.71%) Validation
7 9 (13.24%) CI/CD
7 9 (13.24%) Data Integration
8 8 (11.76%) Batch Processing
8 8 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (11.76%) Data Reconciliation
8 8 (11.76%) Integration Patterns
9 7 (10.29%) Batch Scheduling
9 7 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (8.82%) ITIL
10 6 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.76%) SQL
2 21 (30.88%) JCL
3 17 (25.00%) COBOL
4 13 (19.12%) Shell Script
5 8 (11.76%) Java
5 8 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 8 (11.76%) Python
6 4 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.88%) REXX
7 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.94%) C#
9 1 (1.47%) Bicep
9 1 (1.47%) CLIST
9 1 (1.47%) RPG
9 1 (1.47%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.41%) CISA
3 2 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.47%) CISM
4 1 (1.47%) CISSP
4 1 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.41%) ISO 20022
2 3 (4.41%) SEPA
2 3 (4.41%) SLA
3 2 (2.94%) QA
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (8.82%) RACF
2 5 (7.35%) NFS
3 4 (5.88%) ACF2
3 4 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.94%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (1.47%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.41%) CA Endevor
2 3 (4.41%) Control-M
3 1 (1.47%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Data Guard
3 1 (1.47%) Grafana
3 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (41.18%) IBM
2 14 (20.59%) Oracle
3 6 (8.82%) Sybase
3 6 (8.82%) Teradata
4 5 (7.35%) Greenplum
4 5 (7.35%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.88%) Broadcom
6 3 (4.41%) Databricks
7 2 (2.94%) Informatica
7 2 (2.94%) Solace
8 1 (1.47%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.47%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (1.47%) Confluent
8 1 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.47%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.47%) IBM Sterling
8 1 (1.47%) LANSA
8 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow