DB2 Contracts in London

IBM DB2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 350 409
Rank change year-on-year +42 +59 +67
Contract jobs citing DB2 45 41 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.61% 1.07% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 52
10th Percentile £368 £445 £450
25th Percentile £391 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £667
90th Percentile £845 £738 £700
England median daily rate £450 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% -4.55%

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 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in London

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in London.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in London

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in London

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in London.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in London

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 1 May 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 +3 8 £474 -21.00%
South London - 1 - -
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) WebSphere
2 6 (13.33%) Apache
2 6 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (8.89%) Tomcat
4 3 (6.67%) CICS
4 3 (6.67%) JBoss
5 2 (4.44%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.22%) Confluence
6 1 (2.22%) SAS
6 1 (2.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (24.44%) AWS
2 9 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (11.11%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.44%) Serverless
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 15 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 10 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 6 (13.33%) Big Data
3 6 (13.33%) Hadoop
4 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (8.89%) Oracle Database
6 3 (6.67%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.44%) DataStage
7 2 (4.44%) IMS/DB
8 1 (2.22%) MySQL
8 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JUnit
2 3 (6.67%) ChangeMan
3 2 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) Ant
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Gradle
4 1 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (2.22%) Maven
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (68.89%) Finance
2 26 (57.78%) Social Skills
3 21 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (44.44%) Banking
5 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (44.44%) Developer
2 14 (31.11%) Java Developer
3 12 (26.67%) Senior
4 11 (24.44%) Investment Banking Java Developer
4 11 (24.44%) Linux Developer
4 11 (24.44%) Senior Developer
4 11 (24.44%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
4 11 (24.44%) Senior Java Developer
4 11 (24.44%) Senior SQL Developer
4 11 (24.44%) SQL Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Architect
6 4 (8.89%) Migration Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Data Migration Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Chief Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Database Architect
8 2 (4.44%) IT Trainer
8 2 (4.44%) Mainframe Developer
8 2 (4.44%) RPG Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) Spring
2 11 (24.44%) JMS
2 11 (24.44%) Kafka
3 9 (20.00%) Web Services
4 7 (15.56%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.89%) React
5 4 (8.89%) SOAP
5 4 (8.89%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (6.67%) Middleware
6 3 (6.67%) XSLT
7 2 (4.44%) EJB
7 2 (4.44%) ISPF
7 2 (4.44%) J2EE
7 2 (4.44%) JDBC
7 2 (4.44%) WSDL
7 2 (4.44%) XML
8 1 (2.22%) JSON
8 1 (2.22%) RAML
8 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 11 (24.44%) Equities
3 8 (17.78%) Mainframe
4 4 (8.89%) Reference Data
5 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.44%) AS400
6 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.22%) DataPower
7 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.22%) Hedge funds
7 1 (2.22%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (2.22%) iSeries
7 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (2.22%) VSAM
7 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (46.67%) Linux
2 10 (22.22%) Unix
3 4 (8.89%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Agile
2 20 (44.44%) SDLC
3 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (24.44%) Database Tuning
4 11 (24.44%) DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Multithreading
4 11 (24.44%) Open Source
4 11 (24.44%) Performance Tuning
5 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.33%) ETL
6 6 (13.33%) Fintech
6 6 (13.33%) Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Data Governance
7 5 (11.11%) Data Management
7 5 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 5 (11.11%) Data Science
7 5 (11.11%) Database Migration
8 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
8 4 (8.89%) Incident Management
8 4 (8.89%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) SQL
2 20 (44.44%) Java
2 20 (44.44%) Python
3 15 (33.33%) Shell Script
4 6 (13.33%) REXX
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.89%) Perl
6 4 (8.89%) Scala
7 3 (6.67%) Assembly Language
7 3 (6.67%) COBOL
7 3 (6.67%) JCL
8 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.44%) RPG
8 2 (4.44%) RPG IV
9 1 (2.22%) Bash
9 1 (2.22%) C++
9 1 (2.22%) HLASM
9 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.22%) IBM Certification
2 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (2.22%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (2.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Oracle
2 15 (33.33%) IBM
2 15 (33.33%) Sybase
3 4 (8.89%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Micro Focus
5 2 (4.44%) Databricks
5 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.22%) Delphix
6 1 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) Syncsort