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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 376 478
Rank change year-on-year -85 +102 +85
Contract jobs citing DB2 85 125 67
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.27% 0.44% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.57% 2.43% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 61 33
10th Percentile £349 £373 £425
25th Percentile £400 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £580 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £763 £730
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -9.52% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

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 5,410 5,154 6,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.11% 18.27% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,775 3,429 4,333
10th Percentile £325 £350 £358
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £614 £663 £662
90th Percentile £720 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 74 131
10th Percentile £20.70 £18.74 £18.57
25th Percentile £29.13 £23.10 £25.32
Median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.73 £64.77
90th Percentile £84.60 £72.55 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.59 £46.84
% change year-on-year +69.99% -34.69% -14.84%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 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 -11 57 £560 +12.00% 20
North of England -50 18 £447 -25.50% 21
North West -13 13 £442 - 11
Yorkshire -51 5 £450 -25.00% 8
East of England -29 2 £550 +46.67% 19
Midlands -76 1 - - 20
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 9 (10.59%) WebSphere
2 8 (9.41%) CICS
2 8 (9.41%) WebLogic
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (4.71%) Confluence
5 3 (3.53%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.18%) Apache
6 1 (1.18%) IIS
6 1 (1.18%) JBoss
6 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (10.59%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (8.24%) BusinessWorks
3 3 (3.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.35%) Loan IQ
5 1 (1.18%) Maximo
5 1 (1.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 25 (29.41%) AWS
2 9 (10.59%) Azure
3 7 (8.24%) GCP
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (4.71%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.53%) Serverless
7 2 (2.35%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.35%) Collibra
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (1.18%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.29%) Relational Database
2 25 (29.41%) SQL Server
3 19 (22.35%) MongoDB
4 18 (21.18%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (10.59%) MySQL
5 9 (10.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (4.71%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.71%) MemSQL
7 4 (4.71%) Power BI
7 4 (4.71%) Sybase IQ
8 3 (3.53%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.53%) DataStage
8 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.53%) Metadata
8 3 (3.53%) RDBMS
8 3 (3.53%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 15 (17.65%) JUnit
2 7 (8.24%) JIRA
3 6 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.53%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.53%) GitLab
5 3 (3.53%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (3.53%) Selenium
5 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
6 2 (2.35%) Git
7 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.18%) Mockito
7 1 (1.18%) Postman
7 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.18%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.18%) Subversion
7 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.18%) Xcode
7 1 (1.18%) XCTest
General
1 42 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 31 (36.47%) Finance
3 26 (30.59%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (28.24%) Banking
5 12 (14.12%) Investment Banking
6 8 (9.41%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.35%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Front Office
10 1 (1.18%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) French Language
10 1 (1.18%) German Language
10 1 (1.18%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.18%) Korean Language
10 1 (1.18%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 45 (52.94%) Developer
2 22 (25.88%) Java Developer
3 20 (23.53%) Senior
4 14 (16.47%) Senior Developer
4 14 (16.47%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Linux Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (12.94%) Senior SQL Developer
5 11 (12.94%) SQL Developer
6 10 (11.76%) Consultant
7 7 (8.24%) Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Database Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Database Architect
8 6 (7.06%) TIBCO Developer
9 5 (5.88%) Mainframe Developer
10 4 (4.71%) DBA
11 3 (3.53%) Administrator
11 3 (3.53%) COBOL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) JMS
1 18 (21.18%) Kafka
1 18 (21.18%) Spring
2 13 (15.29%) Web Services
3 12 (14.12%) SOAP
4 10 (11.76%) WSDL
5 9 (10.59%) .NET
5 9 (10.59%) XSLT
6 8 (9.41%) J2EE
6 8 (9.41%) XML
7 7 (8.24%) OC4J
7 7 (8.24%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.24%) TIBCO EMS
7 7 (8.24%) XSD
8 6 (7.06%) HTML
9 5 (5.88%) REST
10 4 (4.71%) CSS
10 4 (4.71%) RESTful
11 3 (3.53%) Gherkin
11 3 (3.53%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Data Structures
2 14 (16.47%) Mainframe
3 11 (12.94%) Equities
4 8 (9.41%) Virtual Team
5 7 (8.24%) Replication
6 6 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (7.06%) VSAM
7 5 (5.88%) IBM Mainframe
7 5 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (4.71%) Algorithms
9 3 (3.53%) Clustering
9 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (2.35%) AS400
10 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
10 2 (2.35%) DataPower
10 2 (2.35%) iSeries
10 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
10 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
11 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.88%) Linux
2 7 (8.24%) zOS
3 5 (5.88%) Unix
3 5 (5.88%) Windows
4 2 (2.35%) AIX
4 2 (2.35%) MVS
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.35%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 2 (2.35%) VMS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (31.76%) Agile
3 26 (30.59%) Performance Tuning
4 17 (20.00%) SDLC
5 16 (18.82%) Migration
6 12 (14.12%) Multithreading
6 12 (14.12%) Open Source
7 11 (12.94%) Database Tuning
8 10 (11.76%) Design Patterns
9 8 (9.41%) Change Data Capture
9 8 (9.41%) Fund Accounting
9 8 (9.41%) High Availability
9 8 (9.41%) Microservices
9 8 (9.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 8 (9.41%) SOA
9 8 (9.41%) Software Engineering
10 7 (8.24%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (8.24%) Resource Management
10 7 (8.24%) RUP
10 7 (8.24%) UML
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.29%) SQL
2 30 (35.29%) Java
3 24 (28.24%) Python
4 14 (16.47%) Shell Script
5 10 (11.76%) JCL
6 8 (9.41%) COBOL
6 8 (9.41%) XPath
7 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.88%) Assembly Language
9 4 (4.71%) HLASM
9 4 (4.71%) REXX
10 3 (3.53%) Groovy
11 2 (2.35%) Bash
11 2 (2.35%) Natural
11 2 (2.35%) PL/1
11 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.35%) VB
11 2 (2.35%) VBA
12 1 (1.18%) Korn
12 1 (1.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.53%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.18%) GPEN
3 1 (1.18%) GWAPT
3 1 (1.18%) OSCP
3 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 3 (3.53%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (1.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.24%) TIBCO Hawk
3 3 (3.53%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) CA Endevor
3 3 (3.53%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (2.35%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (2.35%) Linux-HA
4 2 (2.35%) Pacemaker
5 1 (1.18%) Control-M
5 1 (1.18%) Grafana
5 1 (1.18%) TADDM
5 1 (1.18%) Terraform
5 1 (1.18%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 25 (29.41%) IBM
2 23 (27.06%) Oracle
3 14 (16.47%) Sybase
4 10 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 9 (10.59%) Advent
6 7 (8.24%) BEA
6 7 (8.24%) TIBCO
7 6 (7.06%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.71%) Informatica
8 4 (4.71%) SAP
9 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
9 3 (3.53%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (3.53%) Cognos
10 2 (2.35%) Guidewire
10 2 (2.35%) Remedy
10 2 (2.35%) Syncsort
11 1 (1.18%) Google
11 1 (1.18%) RightFax
11 1 (1.18%) Splunk
11 1 (1.18%) StreamSets