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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 399 482
Rank change year-on-year -90 +83 +21
Contract jobs citing DB2 85 65 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 1.41% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 25 38
10th Percentile £350 £374 £391
25th Percentile £414 £388 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £474 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -13.82% +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £565 £650
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK median daily rate £485 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +2.11% -13.64% -
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 5,994 4,624 6,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.92% 19.08% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,157 3,261 4,425
10th Percentile £350 £356 £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 £772
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 92 147
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £28.79 £24.25 £20.77
Median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -29.08%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.79 £53.94
90th Percentile £85.03 £70.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.26% -19.44% -29.08%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -44 62 £550 +16.03% 11
North of England -58 16 £450 -11.33% 4
North West -23 14 £433 -6.99% 2
Yorkshire -54 2 £463 -15.91%
South East -52 1 £290 -27.50% 6
Midlands -66 1 - - 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 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
4 1 (1.18%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Advent Geneva
2 7 (8.24%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.18%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.12%) AWS
2 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (11.76%) Azure
2 10 (11.76%) Serverless
3 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (8.24%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (8.24%) GCP
5 6 (7.06%) GitHub
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.71%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (3.53%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.53%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.35%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) NAS
2 1 (1.18%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 22 (25.88%) Relational Database
3 17 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (11.76%) MongoDB
5 8 (9.41%) DynamoDB
5 8 (9.41%) MySQL
5 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
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
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.35%) Metadata
10 2 (2.35%) Power BI
11 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.18%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) 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%) 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 22 (25.88%) Finance
3 16 (18.82%) Banking
4 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (7.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.53%) 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
Job Titles
1 32 (37.65%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) Architect
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 10 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Data Architect
4 9 (10.59%) Senior Developer
4 9 (10.59%) 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
6 6 (7.06%) AWS Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Mainframe Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Technical Specialist
6 6 (7.06%) TIBCO Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Database Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Database Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) Web Services
2 14 (16.47%) Kafka
3 13 (15.29%) Spring
4 11 (12.94%) SOAP
4 11 (12.94%) WSDL
5 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
6 9 (10.59%) JMS
6 9 (10.59%) XSLT
7 8 (9.41%) .NET
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%) Ember.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (36.47%) Mainframe
2 8 (9.41%) VSAM
3 6 (7.06%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.06%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.88%) DataPower
4 5 (5.88%) Replication
5 4 (4.71%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.53%) Online Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Equities
7 2 (2.35%) IBM Mainframe
7 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.35%) Reference Data
8 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 23 (27.06%) zOS
2 16 (18.82%) Linux
3 14 (16.47%) Windows
4 10 (11.76%) Unix
5 6 (7.06%) AIX
5 6 (7.06%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.53%) Android
6 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (20.00%) Migration
4 16 (18.82%) Agile
5 12 (14.12%) Design Patterns
6 11 (12.94%) SOA
7 10 (11.76%) Microservices
8 9 (10.59%) Change Data Capture
8 9 (10.59%) CI/CD
8 9 (10.59%) Data Migration
9 8 (9.41%) Batch Processing
10 7 (8.24%) Analytics
10 7 (8.24%) Concurrent Programming
10 7 (8.24%) Fund Accounting
10 7 (8.24%) Integration Testing
10 7 (8.24%) OOA/OOD
10 7 (8.24%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (8.24%) Resource Management
10 7 (8.24%) RUP
10 7 (8.24%) UML
Programming Languages
1 44 (51.76%) SQL
2 17 (20.00%) Java
3 16 (18.82%) Python
4 10 (11.76%) JCL
5 8 (9.41%) COBOL
5 8 (9.41%) XPath
6 6 (7.06%) Bash
6 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.88%) Assembly Language
7 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.71%) HLASM
8 4 (4.71%) REXX
9 3 (3.53%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.35%) Groovy
10 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.18%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) Scala
11 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
5 1 (1.18%) GPEN
5 1 (1.18%) GWAPT
5 1 (1.18%) OSCP
5 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
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 1 (1.18%) NFS
3 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 26 (30.59%) IBM
2 20 (23.53%) Oracle
3 11 (12.94%) 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
8 2 (2.35%) Remedy
9 1 (1.18%) Cloudera
9 1 (1.18%) Confluent
9 1 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.18%) GoldenSource
9 1 (1.18%) Greenplum
9 1 (1.18%) Perforce
9 1 (1.18%) SAP
9 1 (1.18%) Solace
9 1 (1.18%) StreamSets