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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 497 415 487
Rank change year-on-year -82 +72 +23
Contract jobs citing DB2 85 67 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.28% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 1.44% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 25 40
10th Percentile £350 £375 £377
25th Percentile £413 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £474 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -9.71% -0.71%
75th Percentile £583 £575 £631
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.21% -5.10% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.50 -

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 6,246 4,637 6,151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 19.04% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 3,266 4,415
10th Percentile £350 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £670
90th Percentile £700 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 95 138
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £29.84 £24.25 £20.78
Median hourly rate £50.50 £33.11 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.52% -17.23% -28.19%
75th Percentile £74.68 £65.62 £51.75
90th Percentile £83.50 £73.75 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -45 61 £550 +16.03% 11
North of England -67 18 £450 +3.81% 4
North West -23 14 £433 +7.59% 2
Yorkshire -53 3 £475 -13.64%
South East -50 1 £290 -38.95% 6
North East - 1 £363 - 2
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 13 (15.29%) CICS
2 7 (8.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (8.24%) WebLogic
2 7 (8.24%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.35%) Confluence
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (8.24%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (1.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.59%) AWS
2 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (11.76%) Serverless
3 9 (10.59%) Azure
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (7.06%) GCP
6 6 (7.06%) GitHub
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.71%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.18%) Firewall
1 1 (1.18%) NAS
1 1 (1.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 23 (27.06%) Relational Database
3 18 (21.18%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.59%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.41%) DynamoDB
5 8 (9.41%) MySQL
5 8 (9.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.71%) RDBMS
9 3 (3.53%) DataStage
9 3 (3.53%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.53%) Metadata
9 3 (3.53%) Power BI
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (9.41%) JUnit
2 7 (8.24%) GitLab
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.71%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.35%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) ChangeMan
6 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.18%) ERwin
6 1 (1.18%) JMeter
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.18%) Postman
6 1 (1.18%) Selenium
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.18%) XPEDITER
General
1 25 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Finance
3 18 (21.18%) Banking
4 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (7.06%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.18%) German Language
10 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.18%) Legal
10 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (36.47%) Developer
2 13 (15.29%) Architect
2 13 (15.29%) Senior
3 9 (10.59%) Data Architect
3 9 (10.59%) Java Developer
4 8 (9.41%) Senior Developer
4 8 (9.41%) Senior Java Developer
5 7 (8.24%) DB2 Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) DB2 Systems Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) Mainframe Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) Systems Programmer
5 7 (8.24%) Technical Specialist
6 6 (7.06%) AWS Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Mainframe Developer
6 6 (7.06%) TIBCO Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Database Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Senior Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) Web Services
2 13 (15.29%) Kafka
3 12 (14.12%) Spring
4 11 (12.94%) SOAP
4 11 (12.94%) WSDL
5 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 9 (10.59%) XSLT
7 8 (9.41%) .NET
7 8 (9.41%) JMS
7 8 (9.41%) REST
7 8 (9.41%) RESTful
7 8 (9.41%) XML
8 7 (8.24%) J2EE
8 7 (8.24%) OC4J
8 7 (8.24%) TIBCO EMS
8 7 (8.24%) XSD
9 6 (7.06%) React
10 5 (5.88%) JSON
11 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.53%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 33 (38.82%) Mainframe
2 8 (9.41%) VSAM
3 6 (7.06%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.06%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.88%) DataPower
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.71%) Replication
6 3 (3.53%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Online Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.18%) Clustering
8 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Equities
8 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (28.24%) zOS
2 14 (16.47%) Linux
2 14 (16.47%) Windows
3 10 (11.76%) Unix
4 6 (7.06%) AIX
4 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.53%) Android
5 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.18%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.18%) Migration
1 18 (21.18%) Performance Tuning
2 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (17.65%) Agile
4 12 (14.12%) Design Patterns
5 11 (12.94%) SOA
6 10 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 10 (11.76%) Microservices
7 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.41%) Batch Processing
8 8 (9.41%) Change Data Capture
8 8 (9.41%) Validation
9 7 (8.24%) Analytics
9 7 (8.24%) Concurrent Programming
9 7 (8.24%) Fund Accounting
9 7 (8.24%) Integration Testing
9 7 (8.24%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (8.24%) Performance Optimisation
9 7 (8.24%) Resource Management
9 7 (8.24%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) SQL
2 16 (18.82%) Java
3 14 (16.47%) Python
4 11 (12.94%) JCL
5 8 (9.41%) COBOL
5 8 (9.41%) XPath
6 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.06%) Bash
8 5 (5.88%) Assembly Language
8 5 (5.88%) REXX
9 4 (4.71%) HLASM
9 4 (4.71%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
11 2 (2.35%) Groovy
11 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 1 (1.18%) CLIST
12 1 (1.18%) Perl
12 1 (1.18%) Scala
12 1 (1.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.06%) Degree
2 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.53%) PhD
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) CISA
5 1 (1.18%) CISM
5 1 (1.18%) CISSP
5 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
1 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) Hyper-V
1 6 (7.06%) KVM
1 6 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (5.88%) Docker
3 2 (2.35%) RACF
4 1 (1.18%) ACF2
4 1 (1.18%) NFS
4 1 (1.18%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Kubernetes
1 7 (8.24%) TIBCO Hawk
2 6 (7.06%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (7.06%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (2.35%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.35%) Grafana
4 2 (2.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (32.94%) IBM
2 20 (23.53%) Oracle
3 10 (11.76%) Sybase
4 8 (9.41%) Advent
5 7 (8.24%) BEA
5 7 (8.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (8.24%) TIBCO
6 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
7 3 (3.53%) Informatica
8 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.18%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.18%) Confluent
9 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.18%) GoldenSource
9 1 (1.18%) Greenplum
9 1 (1.18%) Perforce
9 1 (1.18%) Remedy
9 1 (1.18%) Solace
9 1 (1.18%) StreamSets