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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 477 372 496
Rank change year-on-year -105 +124 +44
Contract jobs citing DB2 72 116 63
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.22% 0.43% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.34% 2.36% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 35
10th Percentile £350 £363 £425
25th Percentile £408 £406 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £636 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
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 5,360 4,925 6,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.49% 18.42% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,738 3,258 4,367
10th Percentile £331 £356 £352
25th Percentile £413 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £608 £663 £650
90th Percentile £708 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 80 162
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.62
25th Percentile £27.69 £24.69 £22.34
Median hourly rate £44.25 £36.56 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -13.99% -25.26%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.73 £61.75
90th Percentile £84.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £44.25 £33.91 £42.50
% change year-on-year +30.51% -20.22% -25.26%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -7 50 £580 +32.72% 6
North of England -60 14 £433 -13.50% 4
North West -24 9 £415 -11.51% 3
Yorkshire -63 5 £450 -20.35% 1
East of England -32 1 £550 +46.67%
Midlands -78 1 - -
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 7 (9.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (9.72%) WebLogic
1 7 (9.72%) WebSphere
2 6 (8.33%) CICS
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (9.72%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (1.39%) Loan IQ
4 1 (1.39%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 26 (36.11%) AWS
2 8 (11.11%) Azure
3 7 (9.72%) Amazon S3
3 7 (9.72%) GCP
4 6 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (6.94%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.94%) Serverless
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (2.78%) Collibra
8 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.39%) GitHub
9 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 23 (31.94%) SQL Server
3 17 (23.61%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (19.44%) MongoDB
5 9 (12.50%) MySQL
5 9 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.56%) DynamoDB
8 3 (4.17%) BigQuery
8 3 (4.17%) DataStage
8 3 (4.17%) Hadoop
8 3 (4.17%) Metadata
8 3 (4.17%) Power BI
8 3 (4.17%) RDBMS
8 3 (4.17%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.78%) Adabas
9 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.78%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 13 (18.06%) JUnit
2 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.94%) JIRA
3 4 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 3 (4.17%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (4.17%) Selenium
4 3 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 21 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (29.17%) Banking
4 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 8 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.78%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (54.17%) Developer
2 19 (26.39%) Senior
3 18 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Senior Developer
4 13 (18.06%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Architect
5 8 (11.11%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Linux Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Senior SQL Developer
5 8 (11.11%) SQL Developer
6 7 (9.72%) Consultant
7 6 (8.33%) Database Architect
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Architect
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Database Architect
7 6 (8.33%) TIBCO Developer
8 4 (5.56%) AWS Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Agile Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Data Storage Manager
9 3 (4.17%) Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.61%) Kafka
2 15 (20.83%) JMS
2 15 (20.83%) Spring
3 9 (12.50%) .NET
4 8 (11.11%) Web Services
4 8 (11.11%) XSLT
5 7 (9.72%) J2EE
5 7 (9.72%) OC4J
5 7 (9.72%) SOAP
5 7 (9.72%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.72%) TIBCO EMS
5 7 (9.72%) WSDL
5 7 (9.72%) XML
5 7 (9.72%) XSD
6 4 (5.56%) HTML
6 4 (5.56%) RESTful
7 3 (4.17%) CSS
7 3 (4.17%) Gherkin
7 3 (4.17%) Node.js
7 3 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Data Structures
1 11 (15.28%) Mainframe
2 8 (11.11%) Equities
3 7 (9.72%) Replication
3 7 (9.72%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (6.94%) VSAM
5 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (5.56%) IBM Mainframe
6 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
6 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.78%) AS400
7 2 (2.78%) Clustering
7 2 (2.78%) iSeries
7 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.39%) DataPower
8 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) zOS
3 3 (4.17%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) AIX
4 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.78%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (31.94%) Performance Tuning
3 21 (29.17%) Agile
4 13 (18.06%) Migration
5 12 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 11 (15.28%) SDLC
7 10 (13.89%) Multithreading
8 9 (12.50%) Change Data Capture
8 9 (12.50%) Microservices
8 9 (12.50%) Open Source
9 8 (11.11%) Database Tuning
9 8 (11.11%) Fund Accounting
9 8 (11.11%) Integration Testing
9 8 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (9.72%) CI/CD
10 7 (9.72%) Resource Management
10 7 (9.72%) RUP
10 7 (9.72%) SOA
10 7 (9.72%) UML
10 7 (9.72%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.94%) SQL
2 24 (33.33%) Java
3 17 (23.61%) Python
4 10 (13.89%) Shell Script
5 7 (9.72%) COBOL
5 7 (9.72%) JCL
5 7 (9.72%) XPath
6 5 (6.94%) Assembly Language
7 4 (5.56%) HLASM
7 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.56%) REXX
8 2 (2.78%) Groovy
8 2 (2.78%) Natural
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) VB
9 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.39%) GPEN
3 1 (1.39%) GWAPT
3 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (6.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (9.72%) Kubernetes
1 7 (9.72%) TIBCO Hawk
2 3 (4.17%) Ansible
2 3 (4.17%) OMEGAMON
3 2 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (2.78%) Linux-HA
3 2 (2.78%) Pacemaker
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) IBM
2 19 (26.39%) Oracle
3 13 (18.06%) Sybase
4 9 (12.50%) Advent
5 7 (9.72%) BEA
5 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.72%) TIBCO
6 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.56%) Informatica
7 4 (5.56%) SAP
8 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
9 2 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (2.78%) Cognos
9 2 (2.78%) Guidewire
9 2 (2.78%) Remedy
10 1 (1.39%) Confluent
10 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.39%) Google
10 1 (1.39%) RightFax
10 1 (1.39%) StreamSets