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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 312 328
Rank change year-on-year -63 +16 +81
Contract jobs citing Db2 59 56 51
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.41% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.67% 1.92% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 25 39
10th Percentile £372 £370 £397
25th Percentile £450 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £588
90th Percentile £706 £823 £680
England median daily rate £525 £449 £500
% change year-on-year +17.06% -10.30% -1.96%

All Database & BI 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 3,536 2,923 3,907
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.74% 21.55% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,382 2,055 2,898
10th Percentile £363 £380 £366
25th Percentile £438 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £25.14 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.27 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £48.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% -3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £86.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%

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 28 July 2026.

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 28 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
Central London -2 10 £650 +44.44% 1
South London - 2 £700 - 2
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 16 (27.12%) CICS
2 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.39%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) AWS
2 11 (18.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (18.64%) Azure
3 9 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (15.25%) Serverless
4 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
4 6 (10.17%) GitHub
5 5 (8.47%) IaaS
5 5 (8.47%) PaaS
5 5 (8.47%) SaaS
6 3 (5.08%) GCP
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.39%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) NAS
1 5 (8.47%) SAN
2 4 (6.78%) DHCP
2 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.56%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.86%) DynamoDB
4 6 (10.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (8.47%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.78%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.08%) OLTP
7 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.39%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.39%) Metadata
9 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.69%) Big Data
9 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.69%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.69%) DataStage
9 1 (1.69%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (16.95%) GitLab
2 4 (6.78%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) JIRA
3 2 (3.39%) JUnit
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.69%) Flyway
4 1 (1.69%) Gradle
4 1 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.69%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.69%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.69%) XPEDITER
General
1 17 (28.81%) Finance
2 16 (27.12%) Banking
2 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
6 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Developer
2 12 (20.34%) Architect
3 9 (15.25%) Data Architect
4 7 (11.86%) DB2 Programmer
4 7 (11.86%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 7 (11.86%) Mainframe Developer
4 7 (11.86%) Mainframe Programmer
4 7 (11.86%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 7 (11.86%) Programmer
4 7 (11.86%) Systems Programmer
5 5 (8.47%) Incident Manager
5 5 (8.47%) Mainframe Specialist
5 5 (8.47%) Major Incident Manager
6 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Scientist
7 3 (5.08%) Production Manager
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) Support Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.03%) Web Services
2 10 (16.95%) RESTful
3 9 (15.25%) SOAP
4 7 (11.86%) JSON
4 7 (11.86%) REST
4 7 (11.86%) WSDL
5 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.17%) Kafka
5 6 (10.17%) Spring
6 5 (8.47%) React
6 5 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.78%) LDAP
7 4 (6.78%) Middleware
8 3 (5.08%) Bootstrap
8 3 (5.08%) Ember.js
8 3 (5.08%) Hugging Face
8 3 (5.08%) jQuery
8 3 (5.08%) Keras
8 3 (5.08%) PyTorch
8 3 (5.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (71.19%) Mainframe
2 8 (13.56%) VSAM
3 7 (11.86%) DataPower
4 6 (10.17%) Online Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
5 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
6 4 (6.78%) PKI
7 3 (5.08%) Clustering
8 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (3.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
9 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.69%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.69%) Replication
9 1 (1.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.90%) zOS
2 13 (22.03%) Windows
3 9 (15.25%) Unix
4 5 (8.47%) Linux
5 3 (5.08%) Android
5 3 (5.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Migration
2 17 (28.81%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (18.64%) AI
3 11 (18.64%) Data Migration
3 11 (18.64%) Performance Tuning
3 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
4 9 (15.25%) Integration Patterns
5 8 (13.56%) Agile
5 8 (13.56%) Analytics
5 8 (13.56%) Batch Processing
6 7 (11.86%) SOA
7 6 (10.17%) Data Mapping
7 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.17%) DevOps
7 6 (10.17%) ETL
7 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (8.47%) Data Science
8 5 (8.47%) Logical Data Model
8 5 (8.47%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) SQL
2 14 (23.73%) Python
3 12 (20.34%) JCL
4 8 (13.56%) Java
5 7 (11.86%) COBOL
5 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
6 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) C#
7 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.69%) Bicep
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.69%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (6.78%) Degree
2 3 (5.08%) CISA
2 3 (5.08%) PhD
3 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.69%) CISM
4 1 (1.69%) CISSP
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.39%) ISO 20022
2 2 (3.39%) SEPA
3 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) NFS
2 4 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.08%) Docker
4 1 (1.69%) RACF
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.78%) CA Single Sign-On
3 3 (5.08%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) CA Endevor
4 2 (3.39%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (25.42%) IBM
2 9 (15.25%) Sybase
3 7 (11.86%) Oracle
4 5 (8.47%) Greenplum
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.39%) Databricks
6 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.69%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.69%) Confluent
7 1 (1.69%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.69%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.69%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.69%) Informatica
7 1 (1.69%) Perforce