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 11 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 516 408 451
Rank change year-on-year -108 +43 +52
Contract jobs citing Db2 76 75 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.17% 1.62% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 36 58
10th Percentile £309 £358 £356
25th Percentile £408 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% -5.89% -6.86%
75th Percentile £585 £575 £609
90th Percentile £675 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £473
% change year-on-year +22.22% -4.81% -14.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

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 6,475 4,626 6,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 18.91% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,407 3,202 4,603
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 92 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.36 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.52% -18.93% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.78 £54.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.78% -13.56% -33.33%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -63 55 £550 +22.22% 4
North of England -77 16 £363 -9.83% 4
North West -48 9 £304 -24.38% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £525 -4.55% 3
South East -58 2 £458 -3.68% 2
West Midlands -61 1 - -
Midlands -71 1 - -
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 19 (25.00%) CICS
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.63%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Documentum
4 1 (1.32%) FileNet
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) AWS
2 10 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (13.16%) Serverless
3 9 (11.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (9.21%) GitHub
5 6 (7.89%) Azure
6 5 (6.58%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (3.95%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.95%) GCP
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (2.63%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) NAS
1 1 (1.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) SQL Server
2 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (14.47%) Relational Database
4 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 8 (10.53%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.58%) DataStage
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.63%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.63%) Metadata
9 2 (2.63%) OLTP
9 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle8/8i Database
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle9i Database
10 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) GitLab
2 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.26%) JUnit
4 3 (3.95%) JIRA
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.32%) ChangeMan
6 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.32%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.32%) ERwin
6 1 (1.32%) Gradle
6 1 (1.32%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.32%) JMeter
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (1.32%) Postman
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.32%) XPEDITER
General
1 20 (26.32%) Banking
2 19 (25.00%) Finance
2 19 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) German Language
6 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Architect
3 8 (10.53%) Data Architect
3 8 (10.53%) DB2 Programmer
3 8 (10.53%) DB2 Systems Programmer
3 8 (10.53%) Programmer
3 8 (10.53%) Senior
3 8 (10.53%) Systems Programmer
3 8 (10.53%) Technical Specialist
4 7 (9.21%) Mainframe Developer
4 7 (9.21%) Mainframe Programmer
4 7 (9.21%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Mainframe Specialist
7 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) DBA
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 4 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) DataStage Developer
8 3 (3.95%) DB2 Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) Web Services
2 11 (14.47%) RESTful
3 9 (11.84%) SOAP
3 9 (11.84%) WSDL
4 8 (10.53%) JSON
4 8 (10.53%) Kafka
4 8 (10.53%) Spring
5 7 (9.21%) Spring Boot
6 6 (7.89%) React
6 6 (7.89%) REST
7 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (3.95%) Backbone.js
8 3 (3.95%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.95%) Ember.js
8 3 (3.95%) jQuery
8 3 (3.95%) Keras
8 3 (3.95%) PyTorch
8 3 (3.95%) TensorFlow
8 3 (3.95%) XML
8 3 (3.95%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (56.58%) Mainframe
2 10 (13.16%) VSAM
3 7 (9.21%) DataPower
4 6 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.89%) Online Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.95%) Clustering
7 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.63%) Replication
7 2 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.89%) zOS
2 15 (19.74%) Linux
2 15 (19.74%) Unix
3 14 (18.42%) Windows
4 7 (9.21%) AIX
5 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.95%) Android
6 3 (3.95%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.63%) MVS
8 1 (1.32%) Solaris
8 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.63%) Migration
2 20 (26.32%) Performance Tuning
3 17 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (14.47%) Agile
4 11 (14.47%) Data Migration
5 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.84%) AI
6 9 (11.84%) Batch Processing
6 9 (11.84%) ETL
6 9 (11.84%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (11.84%) SOA
7 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.53%) Design Patterns
7 8 (10.53%) DevOps
8 7 (9.21%) Analytics
8 7 (9.21%) Validation
9 6 (7.89%) Asset Management
9 6 (7.89%) Microservices
9 6 (7.89%) SDLC
9 6 (7.89%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 33 (43.42%) SQL
2 17 (22.37%) JCL
3 15 (19.74%) Python
4 12 (15.79%) COBOL
4 12 (15.79%) Shell Script
5 10 (13.16%) Java
6 9 (11.84%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.89%) Bash
7 6 (7.89%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.95%) XPath
9 2 (2.63%) REXX
10 1 (1.32%) Bicep
10 1 (1.32%) CLIST
10 1 (1.32%) Perl
10 1 (1.32%) Scala
10 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.58%) Degree
2 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.95%) CISA
3 3 (3.95%) PhD
4 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) CISM
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
5 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) SEPA
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Hyper-V
1 6 (7.89%) KVM
1 6 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.58%) Docker
3 3 (3.95%) RACF
4 2 (2.63%) ACF2
5 1 (1.32%) NFS
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (7.89%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.95%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.63%) Terraform
4 2 (2.63%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (1.32%) Ansible
5 1 (1.32%) Control-M
5 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.32%) Grafana
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (35.53%) IBM
2 14 (18.42%) Oracle
3 7 (9.21%) Sybase
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.95%) Teradata
5 2 (2.63%) BEA
5 2 (2.63%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.63%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.32%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.32%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.32%) Databricks
6 1 (1.32%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.32%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.32%) Informatica
6 1 (1.32%) Perforce
6 1 (1.32%) Solace