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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 312 327
Rank change year-on-year -104 +15 +70
Contract jobs citing Db2 36 56 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.42% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.00% 1.96% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 35
10th Percentile £425 £358 £382
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £600
90th Percentile £738 £738 £690
England median daily rate £525 £431 £500
% change year-on-year +21.81% -13.80% -

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 3,615 2,856 3,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.78% 21.36% 22.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 1,983 2,568
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £721
90th Percentile £738 £823 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 23
10th Percentile £17.97 £24.81 £28.12
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £32.28 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.32% +22.22% -10.45%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.00 £54.38
90th Percentile £65.13 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £40.25 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.16% +19.99% -33.33%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -30 3 £700 +75.00% 4
South London - 3 £700 - 1
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 11 (30.56%) CICS
2 2 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.78%) PowerExchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 7 (19.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.89%) Serverless
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.11%) IaaS
5 4 (11.11%) PaaS
5 4 (11.11%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DHCP
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) Kerberos
1 4 (11.11%) NAS
1 4 (11.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) OLTP
4 3 (8.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.56%) Metadata
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.78%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.78%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
6 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.78%) Parquet
6 1 (2.78%) Power BI
6 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Gradle
3 2 (5.56%) Flyway
3 2 (5.56%) Liquibase
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Banking
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Mainframe Specialist
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
4 4 (11.11%) Incident Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Major Incident Manager
5 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Payments Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Production Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Support Manager
6 2 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.56%) DBA
6 2 (5.56%) Mainframe Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Kafka
1 6 (16.67%) SOAP
1 6 (16.67%) Web Services
2 5 (13.89%) Spring
2 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.11%) LDAP
3 4 (11.11%) Middleware
4 3 (8.33%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) .NET Framework
4 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (8.33%) Dapper ORM
4 3 (8.33%) Entity Framework
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) NHibernate
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) WSDL
5 2 (5.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 23 (63.89%) Mainframe
2 8 (22.22%) VSAM
3 4 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (11.11%) PKI
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.33%) Clustering
4 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.33%) DataPower
4 3 (8.33%) Online Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.56%) Replication
5 2 (5.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Code
6 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.78%) Spread Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Unix
1 9 (25.00%) zOS
2 8 (22.22%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Linux
4 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (44.44%) Migration
2 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 8 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 6 (16.67%) ETL
6 5 (13.89%) AI
6 5 (13.89%) Data Mapping
6 5 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (13.89%) Observability
7 4 (11.11%) Batch Processing
7 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (11.11%) Data Migration
7 4 (11.11%) DevOps
7 4 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
7 4 (11.11%) Logical Data Model
7 4 (11.11%) Operational Stability
7 4 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) JCL
3 8 (22.22%) COBOL
3 8 (22.22%) Python
4 6 (16.67%) Java
4 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) Bicep
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (2.78%) CISM
2 1 (2.78%) CISSP
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 20022
2 3 (8.33%) SEPA
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 4 (11.11%) NFS
2 3 (8.33%) RACF
3 1 (2.78%) ACF2
3 1 (2.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.78%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) CA Single Sign-On
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Control-M
4 1 (2.78%) Grafana
4 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) IBM
2 7 (19.44%) Sybase
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 4 (11.11%) Greenplum
5 3 (8.33%) Databricks
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.56%) Informatica
7 1 (2.78%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (2.78%) Confluent
7 1 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.78%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow