DB2 Contract Job Trends in London

IBM DB2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 321 355
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 +120
Contract jobs citing DB2 58 54 45
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.41% 0.36% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 1.68% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 23
10th Percentile £350 £348 £433
25th Percentile £400 £378 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £680 £730
England median daily rate £475 £528 £563
% change year-on-year -9.95% -6.22% -2.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,933 3,209 3,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.48% 21.49% 19.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,044 2,216 2,618
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £419 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £752 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 28 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £29.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -16.28%
75th Percentile £66.06 £57.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.13 £69.66
England median hourly rate £48.72 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.71% -16.04%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DB2 job vacancy trend in London

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in London over the 6 months to 22 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in London

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the London region over the 6 months to 22 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
Central London -1 4 £400 -19.92% 3
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 5 (8.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 5 (8.62%) WebLogic
1 5 (8.62%) WebSphere
2 4 (6.90%) CICS
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (8.62%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (3.45%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.72%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.76%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.90%) Azure
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Fargate
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.17%) Serverless
5 2 (3.45%) AWS CodeBuild
5 2 (3.45%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (1.72%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (34.48%) MongoDB
1 20 (34.48%) Relational Database
2 16 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (18.97%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.62%) Hadoop
4 5 (8.62%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (6.90%) MemSQL
5 4 (6.90%) Sybase IQ
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.45%) Power BI
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (27.59%) JUnit
2 7 (12.07%) JIRA
3 6 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) Bitbucket
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) GitLab
5 3 (5.17%) Selenium
5 3 (5.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.72%) Git
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Mockito
6 1 (1.72%) Postman
6 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.72%) Subversion
6 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.72%) Xcode
6 1 (1.72%) XCTest
General
1 28 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 24 (41.38%) Finance
3 23 (39.66%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (39.66%) Banking
4 13 (22.41%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 28 (48.28%) Developer
2 23 (39.66%) Java Developer
3 21 (36.21%) Senior
4 15 (25.86%) Senior Developer
4 15 (25.86%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Linux Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (20.69%) Senior SQL Developer
5 12 (20.69%) SQL Developer
6 7 (12.07%) Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Consultant
7 6 (10.34%) Database Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Architect
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Database Architect
8 5 (8.62%) TIBCO Developer
9 4 (6.90%) DBA
10 3 (5.17%) Administrator
10 3 (5.17%) Agile Java Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Database Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (32.76%) Kafka
1 19 (32.76%) Spring
2 17 (29.31%) JMS
3 8 (13.79%) Web Services
4 7 (12.07%) SOAP
4 7 (12.07%) Spring Boot
4 7 (12.07%) XSLT
5 6 (10.34%) HTML
5 6 (10.34%) J2EE
5 6 (10.34%) WSDL
6 5 (8.62%) OC4J
6 5 (8.62%) TIBCO EMS
6 5 (8.62%) XML
6 5 (8.62%) XSD
7 4 (6.90%) CSS
7 4 (6.90%) RESTful
8 3 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.17%) Gherkin
8 3 (5.17%) Node.js
8 3 (5.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.31%) Data Structures
2 12 (20.69%) Equities
3 8 (13.79%) Replication
4 7 (12.07%) Mainframe
5 4 (6.90%) Algorithms
5 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (5.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (3.45%) AS400
7 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
7 2 (3.45%) DataPower
7 2 (3.45%) iSeries
7 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
7 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 2 (3.45%) VSAM
8 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Unix
2 4 (6.90%) zOS
3 3 (5.17%) Windows
4 2 (3.45%) AIX
4 2 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.10%) Agile
1 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (37.93%) Performance Tuning
3 16 (27.59%) SDLC
4 13 (22.41%) Multithreading
4 13 (22.41%) Open Source
5 12 (20.69%) Database Tuning
5 12 (20.69%) Migration
6 9 (15.52%) Change Data Capture
7 8 (13.79%) Design Patterns
7 8 (13.79%) Microservices
7 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
8 6 (10.34%) Integration Testing
8 6 (10.34%) SOA
9 5 (8.62%) OOA/OOD
9 5 (8.62%) Performance Analysis
9 5 (8.62%) Resource Management
9 5 (8.62%) RUP
9 5 (8.62%) UML
Programming Languages
1 32 (55.17%) SQL
2 29 (50.00%) Java
3 23 (39.66%) Python
4 15 (25.86%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.34%) XPath
6 3 (5.17%) COBOL
6 3 (5.17%) JCL
7 2 (3.45%) Assembly Language
7 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.45%) REXX
7 2 (3.45%) VB
7 2 (3.45%) VBA
8 1 (1.72%) Bash
8 1 (1.72%) Groovy
8 1 (1.72%) PL/1
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.72%) Degree
2 1 (1.72%) GPEN
2 1 (1.72%) GWAPT
2 1 (1.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) RACF
Systems Management
1 8 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.62%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (1.72%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.72%) Control-M
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (25.86%) Oracle
1 15 (25.86%) Sybase
2 11 (18.97%) IBM
3 5 (8.62%) BEA
3 5 (8.62%) TIBCO
4 3 (5.17%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.17%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.45%) Cognos
5 2 (3.45%) Guidewire
5 2 (3.45%) Remedy
6 1 (1.72%) Confluent
6 1 (1.72%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.72%) Google
6 1 (1.72%) Informatica
6 1 (1.72%) RightFax
6 1 (1.72%) SAP
6 1 (1.72%) Splunk
6 1 (1.72%) StreamSets