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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 304 319
Rank change year-on-year -89 +15 +97
Contract jobs citing Db2 51 56 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.41% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 1.94% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 39
10th Percentile £375 £370 £397
25th Percentile £450 £400 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £591 £700 £588
90th Percentile £725 £823 £680
England median daily rate £520 £447 £525
% change year-on-year +16.22% -14.86% +3.96%

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 3,584 2,883 3,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.78% 21.24% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 2,030 2,824
10th Percentile £363 £378 £363
25th Percentile £438 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 25
10th Percentile £17.72 £24.60 £32.85
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £86.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.58% -7.16% -31.82%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -22 7 £700 +55.56% 1
South London - 2 £700 -
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 15 (29.41%) CICS
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) AWS
2 11 (21.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (17.65%) Serverless
4 8 (15.69%) Azure
5 5 (9.80%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.80%) IaaS
5 5 (9.80%) PaaS
5 5 (9.80%) SaaS
6 3 (5.88%) GitHub
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (3.92%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (3.92%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.80%) NAS
1 5 (9.80%) SAN
2 4 (7.84%) DHCP
2 4 (7.84%) DNS
2 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 4 (7.84%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) DynamoDB
2 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (7.84%) OLTP
5 3 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.92%) Metadata
6 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.96%) DataStage
7 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.96%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) GitLab
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) Flyway
3 2 (3.92%) JUnit
3 2 (3.92%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.96%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.96%) Gradle
4 1 (1.96%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 15 (29.41%) Banking
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Developer
2 10 (19.61%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) DB2 Programmer
3 7 (13.73%) DB2 Systems Programmer
3 7 (13.73%) Mainframe Programmer
3 7 (13.73%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 7 (13.73%) Programmer
3 7 (13.73%) Systems Programmer
4 6 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Incident Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Mainframe Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Mainframe Specialist
5 5 (9.80%) Major Incident Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.88%) Payments Architect
6 3 (5.88%) Production Manager
6 3 (5.88%) Senior
6 3 (5.88%) Support Manager
7 2 (3.92%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.61%) Web Services
2 8 (15.69%) RESTful
2 8 (15.69%) SOAP
3 6 (11.76%) JSON
3 6 (11.76%) WSDL
4 5 (9.80%) Kafka
4 5 (9.80%) Spring
4 5 (9.80%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.84%) LDAP
5 4 (7.84%) Middleware
5 4 (7.84%) REST
6 2 (3.92%) .NET
6 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (3.92%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (3.92%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.92%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 39 (76.47%) Mainframe
2 7 (13.73%) VSAM
3 6 (11.76%) DataPower
3 6 (11.76%) Online Banking
4 5 (9.80%) Cloud Native
4 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (7.84%) PKI
6 3 (5.88%) Clustering
6 3 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.96%) Data Fabric
8 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.96%) IBM Mainframe
8 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (31.37%) zOS
2 9 (17.65%) Windows
3 8 (15.69%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Linux
4 1 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Migration
2 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.49%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (15.69%) AI
4 8 (15.69%) Batch Processing
4 8 (15.69%) Data Migration
4 8 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.73%) Integration Patterns
6 6 (11.76%) Data Mapping
6 6 (11.76%) Data Modelling
6 6 (11.76%) ETL
6 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.76%) SOA
7 5 (9.80%) Agile
7 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (9.80%) ITIL
7 5 (9.80%) Logical Data Model
7 5 (9.80%) Physical Data Model
7 5 (9.80%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 12 (23.53%) JCL
3 9 (17.65%) Python
4 7 (13.73%) COBOL
4 7 (13.73%) Shell Script
5 6 (11.76%) Java
6 2 (3.92%) C#
6 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.92%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.96%) Bicep
7 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.96%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) CISA
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.96%) CISM
2 1 (1.96%) CISSP
2 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.88%) ISO 20022
1 3 (5.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) NFS
2 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.92%) Docker
4 1 (1.96%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.96%) Grafana
4 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) IBM
2 8 (15.69%) Sybase
3 6 (11.76%) Oracle
4 5 (9.80%) Greenplum
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.92%) Databricks
6 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.96%) Confluent
7 1 (1.96%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.96%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (1.96%) Informatica
7 1 (1.96%) Perforce