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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 535 410 459
Rank change year-on-year -125 +49 +46
Contract jobs citing Db2 77 86 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.15% 1.81% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 68
10th Percentile £304 £358 £358
25th Percentile £367 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.28% -5.26% -6.86%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £729
UK median daily rate £525 £465 £471
% change year-on-year +12.90% -1.17% -12.67%
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 6,686 4,749 6,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.39% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,504 3,291 4,711
10th Percentile £352 £358 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £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 £709 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 89 139
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.15 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.11 £25.00 £20.76
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £69.72 £62.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.50 £71.70
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.50% -29.76%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -66 53 £550 +10.00% 10
North of England -77 17 £363 -13.59% 1
North West -58 9 £304 -24.38%
Yorkshire -40 7 £525 -4.55%
South East -57 3 £297 -28.00% 2
Midlands -55 1 - - 1
West Midlands -60 1 - -
North East - 1 £363 - 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 19 (24.68%) CICS
2 3 (3.90%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) Documentum
3 1 (1.30%) FileNet
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.17%) AWS
2 10 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (12.99%) Serverless
3 9 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (11.69%) Azure
4 7 (9.09%) GitHub
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.19%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (3.90%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (3.90%) GCP
7 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.90%) IaaS
7 3 (3.90%) PaaS
7 3 (3.90%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) NAS
1 3 (3.90%) SAN
2 2 (2.60%) DHCP
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) SQL Server
2 11 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 10 (12.99%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.69%) MongoDB
4 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (10.39%) DynamoDB
6 5 (6.49%) DataStage
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.90%) Oracle Database
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.60%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.60%) Couchbase
9 2 (2.60%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.60%) Metadata
9 2 (2.60%) OLTP
9 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (2.60%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 10g
10 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) GitLab
2 6 (7.79%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.19%) JUnit
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) JMeter
5 2 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.60%) Postman
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) ChangeMan
6 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.30%) ER Studio
6 1 (1.30%) ERwin
6 1 (1.30%) Gradle
6 1 (1.30%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (1.30%) Selenium
6 1 (1.30%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.30%) Visual LANSA
6 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.30%) XPEDITER
General
1 20 (25.97%) Finance
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Banking
3 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) German Language
6 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (23.38%) Developer
2 10 (12.99%) Architect
3 9 (11.69%) Programmer
3 9 (11.69%) Systems Programmer
4 8 (10.39%) Data Architect
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
4 8 (10.39%) Technical Specialist
5 7 (9.09%) Mainframe Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) Mainframe Specialist
8 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.90%) DataStage Developer
9 3 (3.90%) DBA
9 3 (3.90%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.88%) Web Services
2 11 (14.29%) RESTful
3 9 (11.69%) JSON
3 9 (11.69%) Kafka
3 9 (11.69%) Spring
4 8 (10.39%) Spring Boot
5 7 (9.09%) React
5 7 (9.09%) REST
5 7 (9.09%) SOAP
5 7 (9.09%) WSDL
6 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.90%) Backbone.js
7 3 (3.90%) Bootstrap
7 3 (3.90%) CSS
7 3 (3.90%) Ember.js
7 3 (3.90%) HTML
7 3 (3.90%) jQuery
7 3 (3.90%) Keras
7 3 (3.90%) TensorFlow
7 3 (3.90%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (59.74%) Mainframe
2 10 (12.99%) VSAM
3 7 (9.09%) DataPower
4 6 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (7.79%) Online Banking
5 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.90%) Clustering
5 3 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.60%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.60%) PKI
6 2 (2.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (33.77%) zOS
2 18 (23.38%) Unix
3 17 (22.08%) Windows
4 13 (16.88%) Linux
5 7 (9.09%) AIX
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server
7 3 (3.90%) Android
7 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.60%) MVS
9 1 (1.30%) Solaris
9 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (23.38%) Migration
2 18 (23.38%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (15.58%) CI/CD
4 11 (14.29%) Agile
5 10 (12.99%) Data Migration
6 9 (11.69%) AI
6 9 (11.69%) Batch Processing
6 9 (11.69%) ETL
6 9 (11.69%) Integration Patterns
7 8 (10.39%) Analytics
7 8 (10.39%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.39%) DevOps
8 7 (9.09%) Microservices
8 7 (9.09%) SOA
8 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.09%) TDD
8 7 (9.09%) Validation
9 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (7.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) SQL
2 18 (23.38%) JCL
3 15 (19.48%) Python
4 12 (15.58%) COBOL
4 12 (15.58%) Java
4 12 (15.58%) Shell Script
5 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.79%) Bash
6 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
7 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.60%) REXX
9 1 (1.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.30%) CLIST
9 1 (1.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.30%) RPG
9 1 (1.30%) RPG IV
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (6.49%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.90%) CISA
3 3 (3.90%) PhD
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) CISM
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.60%) SEPA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Hyper-V
1 6 (7.79%) KVM
1 6 (7.79%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (6.49%) Docker
3 3 (3.90%) NFS
3 3 (3.90%) RACF
4 2 (2.60%) ACF2
4 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (1.30%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.79%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (7.79%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.90%) CA Endevor
4 2 (2.60%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.60%) Terraform
5 1 (1.30%) Ansible
5 1 (1.30%) Control-M
5 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.30%) Grafana
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (36.36%) IBM
2 13 (16.88%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) Sybase
4 3 (3.90%) Greenplum
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Teradata
5 2 (2.60%) Broadcom
5 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Solace
6 1 (1.30%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.30%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.30%) Informatica
6 1 (1.30%) LANSA
6 1 (1.30%) Perforce