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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 541 409 411
Rank change year-on-year -132 +2 +108
Contract jobs citing Db2 77 94 121
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.34% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.10% 1.88% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 55 83
10th Percentile £304 £344 £363
25th Percentile £376 £394 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £447 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.22% -14.86% +3.96%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £676 £715 £748
UK median daily rate £520 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +15.44% -10.00% -14.89%

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 6,976 5,010 6,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.30% 18.13% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,674 3,474 4,360
10th Percentile £358 £341 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 78 93
10th Percentile £15.28 £20.15 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%
75th Percentile £67.47 £63.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £76.30 £77.86 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +12.86% +1.55% -34.35%

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 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 11 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 -89 51 £550 +22.22% 8
North of England -79 18 £431 +7.28% 2
Yorkshire -40 10 £514 +51.18% 2
North West -48 7 £304 -27.53%
South East -71 4 £386 -6.42%
West Midlands -57 1 - - 1
Midlands -60 1 - - 4
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 (24.68%) CICS
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Documentum
2 1 (1.30%) FileNet
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 11 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (11.69%) Serverless
4 8 (10.39%) Azure
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.49%) IaaS
5 5 (6.49%) PaaS
5 5 (6.49%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.60%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.30%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) NAS
1 5 (6.49%) SAN
2 4 (5.19%) DHCP
2 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 7 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.79%) DataStage
4 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.49%) OLTP
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.90%) Metadata
6 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.60%) Couchbase
7 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) GitLab
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Flyway
3 2 (2.60%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) JMeter
3 2 (2.60%) JUnit
3 2 (2.60%) Liquibase
3 2 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (2.60%) Postman
4 1 (1.30%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.30%) ERwin
4 1 (1.30%) Gradle
4 1 (1.30%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Developer 2000
4 1 (1.30%) Visual LANSA
General
1 24 (31.17%) Finance
2 23 (29.87%) Banking
2 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) German Language
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Architect
3 9 (11.69%) Programmer
3 9 (11.69%) Systems Programmer
4 8 (10.39%) DB2 Programmer
4 8 (10.39%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 8 (10.39%) Mainframe Programmer
4 8 (10.39%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 6 (7.79%) Data Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Mainframe Specialist
5 6 (7.79%) Technical Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) DB2 Specialist
6 5 (6.49%) Incident Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Mainframe Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Major Incident Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Senior
7 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) DataStage Developer
7 4 (5.19%) DBA
8 3 (3.90%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.58%) Web Services
2 8 (10.39%) JSON
2 8 (10.39%) RESTful
2 8 (10.39%) SOAP
3 7 (9.09%) Kafka
3 7 (9.09%) REST
3 7 (9.09%) Spring
3 7 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 6 (7.79%) WSDL
5 5 (6.49%) Middleware
6 4 (5.19%) LDAP
7 3 (3.90%) XML
8 2 (2.60%) .NET
8 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (2.60%) CSS
8 2 (2.60%) Dapper ORM
8 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
8 2 (2.60%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (61.04%) Mainframe
2 9 (11.69%) VSAM
3 6 (7.79%) DataPower
3 6 (7.79%) Online Banking
4 5 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 5 (6.49%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (5.19%) PKI
6 3 (3.90%) Clustering
6 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.60%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.30%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 25 (32.47%) zOS
2 17 (22.08%) Unix
3 13 (16.88%) Windows
4 6 (7.79%) Linux
5 4 (5.19%) AIX
6 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
7 2 (2.60%) MVS
8 1 (1.30%) Solaris
8 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (29.87%) Performance Tuning
3 19 (24.68%) Migration
4 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 11 (14.29%) ETL
5 10 (12.99%) Batch Processing
5 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
6 9 (11.69%) Integration Patterns
6 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.39%) AI
7 8 (10.39%) Data Migration
7 8 (10.39%) SDLC
7 8 (10.39%) Validation
8 7 (9.09%) Agile
8 7 (9.09%) Change Management
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.09%) Data Integration
8 7 (9.09%) Data Mapping
9 6 (7.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (7.79%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) JCL
3 14 (18.18%) COBOL
4 13 (16.88%) Shell Script
5 10 (12.99%) Python
6 9 (11.69%) Java
7 7 (9.09%) PL/SQL
8 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
9 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.19%) REXX
10 3 (3.90%) Bash
11 2 (2.60%) C#
12 1 (1.30%) Bicep
12 1 (1.30%) CLIST
12 1 (1.30%) RPG
12 1 (1.30%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) CISA
3 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) CISM
4 1 (1.30%) CISSP
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) ISO 20022
2 3 (3.90%) SEPA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) NFS
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) RACF
3 3 (3.90%) ACF2
3 3 (3.90%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.90%) KVM
3 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.60%) Docker
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.90%) CA Endevor
2 3 (3.90%) IBM BigFix
2 3 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.60%) Terraform
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Control-M
4 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) IBM
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Sybase
4 5 (6.49%) Greenplum
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.19%) Teradata
6 2 (2.60%) Broadcom
6 2 (2.60%) Databricks
6 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.60%) Solace
7 1 (1.30%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.30%) Confluent
7 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.30%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.30%) Informatica
7 1 (1.30%) LANSA
7 1 (1.30%) Perforce