DB2 Contracts in England

IBM DB2
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 411 457 505
Rank change year-on-year +46 +48 +21
Contract jobs citing DB2 87 95 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.78% 1.45% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 68 65
10th Percentile £358 £358 £343
25th Percentile £400 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £631
90th Percentile £675 £738 £690
UK median daily rate £465 £471 £545
% change year-on-year -1.17% -13.67% +1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £61.95 - £62.85
25th Percentile £62.63 - £64.88
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £66.00
75th Percentile £65.63 - -
90th Percentile £65.85 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +20.00%

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 4,877 6,558 8,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.36% 17.62% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,375 4,719 5,921
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 141 157
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.00 £32.40
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -34.29% +55.00%
75th Percentile £62.88 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £82.70
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% -34.78% +52.12%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in England

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in England

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in England

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 6 July 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 +35 49 £500 - 56
North of England +9 20 £420 -23.73% 34
North West +17 17 £402 -9.66% 17
East of England +34 7 £550 - 16
Midlands +3 7 £350 -5.41% 21
East Midlands +1 4 £345 -22.47% 9
Yorkshire +2 3 £550 -8.33% 14
West Midlands -3 3 £425 +18.72% 12
South East +35 2 £413 +15.22% 15
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 23 (26.44%) WebSphere
2 14 (16.09%) CICS
3 12 (13.79%) Apache
4 9 (10.34%) JBoss
5 7 (8.05%) Tomcat
5 7 (8.05%) WebLogic
6 6 (6.90%) Apache Spark
6 6 (6.90%) IIS
7 3 (3.45%) SAS
8 2 (2.30%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (1.15%) Confluence
9 1 (1.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 27 (31.03%) AWS
2 14 (16.09%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) GCP
4 4 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (4.60%) Serverless
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.30%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.15%) Datadog
7 1 (1.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Internet
1 2 (2.30%) LAN
1 2 (2.30%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.03%) Relational Database
2 22 (25.29%) MongoDB
2 22 (25.29%) SQL Server
3 11 (12.64%) Hadoop
4 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.90%) Big Data
6 6 (6.90%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.45%) DataStage
7 3 (3.45%) Oracle Exadata
8 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.30%) IMS/DB
8 2 (2.30%) Informix
8 2 (2.30%) MemSQL
8 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.30%) Sybase IQ
9 1 (1.15%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) JUnit
2 12 (13.79%) Git
3 7 (8.05%) Bitbucket
3 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.75%) Selenium
5 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.60%) Maven
6 3 (3.45%) Eclipse
6 3 (3.45%) IntelliJ
7 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.30%) SOAtest
8 1 (1.15%) GitLab
8 1 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
8 1 (1.15%) JIRA
8 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (51.72%) Finance
2 38 (43.68%) Social Skills
3 37 (42.53%) Banking
4 32 (36.78%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (17.24%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.45%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Arabic Language
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) French Language
7 2 (2.30%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.30%) German Language
7 2 (2.30%) Japanese Language
7 2 (2.30%) Korean Language
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.30%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (35.63%) Developer
2 22 (25.29%) Java Developer
3 20 (22.99%) Senior
4 17 (19.54%) Senior Developer
4 17 (19.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (18.39%) Linux Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 15 (17.24%) Senior SQL Developer
6 15 (17.24%) SQL Developer
7 12 (13.79%) Architect
8 8 (9.20%) Scrum Master
9 7 (8.05%) Consultant
10 6 (6.90%) Maximo Consultant
11 5 (5.75%) Programmer
12 4 (4.60%) Mainframe Programmer
12 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (4.60%) Support Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Systems Programmer
12 4 (4.60%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.18%) Spring
2 26 (29.89%) Web Services
3 18 (20.69%) SOAP
4 17 (19.54%) Kafka
5 15 (17.24%) JMS
6 12 (13.79%) XML
7 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
7 9 (10.34%) WSDL
8 8 (9.20%) J2EE
8 8 (9.20%) RAML
8 8 (9.20%) REST
9 7 (8.05%) RESTful
10 6 (6.90%) EJB
10 6 (6.90%) JSON
10 6 (6.90%) React
11 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.60%) JSP
11 4 (4.60%) Servlets
11 4 (4.60%) WebSphere MQ
12 3 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.14%) Data Structures
1 21 (24.14%) Mainframe
2 15 (17.24%) Equities
3 10 (11.49%) VSAM
4 8 (9.20%) Product Ownership
5 7 (8.05%) Private Cloud
6 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (4.60%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (4.60%) Management Information System
7 4 (4.60%) Reference Data
8 3 (3.45%) AS400
8 3 (3.45%) Replication
9 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.30%) Clustering
9 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.30%) iSeries
9 2 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.30%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.18%) Linux
2 16 (18.39%) Windows
3 14 (16.09%) Unix
4 7 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 7 (8.05%) zOS
5 1 (1.15%) AIX
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (45.98%) Agile
2 36 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (34.48%) SDLC
4 21 (24.14%) DevOps
4 21 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (19.54%) CI/CD
6 16 (18.39%) Migration
7 15 (17.24%) Database Tuning
7 15 (17.24%) Multithreading
7 15 (17.24%) Open Source
8 13 (14.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (13.79%) ETL
9 12 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
10 11 (12.64%) Service Management
11 10 (11.49%) Scrum
12 9 (10.34%) ITIL
13 8 (9.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 8 (9.20%) High Availability
13 8 (9.20%) ITSM
13 8 (9.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (57.47%) SQL
2 40 (45.98%) Java
3 37 (42.53%) Python
4 21 (24.14%) Shell Script
5 16 (18.39%) COBOL
6 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
6 15 (17.24%) JCL
7 10 (11.49%) REXX
8 6 (6.90%) Perl
9 5 (5.75%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.60%) Assembly Language
10 4 (4.60%) Scala
11 3 (3.45%) Bash
11 3 (3.45%) C++
11 3 (3.45%) RPG
12 2 (2.30%) C
12 2 (2.30%) Korn
12 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
12 2 (2.30%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 1 (1.15%) CFA
4 1 (1.15%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) QA
2 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.45%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (3.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (2.30%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.30%) TADDM
3 2 (2.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
4 1 (1.15%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.15%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.15%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 34 (39.08%) IBM
2 30 (34.48%) Oracle
3 21 (24.14%) Sybase
4 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.60%) Google
6 3 (3.45%) Ab Initio
6 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.45%) Splunk
7 2 (2.30%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.30%) Cognos
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.30%) Informatica
7 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.30%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.15%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.15%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.15%) Remedy
8 1 (1.15%) Syncsort