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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 308 340
Rank change year-on-year -37 +32 +69
Contract jobs citing DB2 60 41 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.35% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 1.46% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 17 29
10th Percentile £350 £373 £420
25th Percentile £421 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £474 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.03% -13.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £650
90th Percentile £683 £860 £738
England median daily rate £500 £474 £550
% change year-on-year +5.49% -13.82% +1.85%

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 3,261 2,814 3,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.07% 22.19% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 2,001 2,758
10th Percentile £363 £375 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +2.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £694
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £18.53 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +8.23%
75th Percentile £61.13 £60.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £78.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -14 8 £613 +29.22% 4
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 9 (15.00%) CICS
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (11.67%) WebLogic
2 7 (11.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (3.33%) Confluence
4 1 (1.67%) Apache
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (11.67%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.67%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 10 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (16.67%) Serverless
3 8 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (11.67%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (11.67%) AWS Fargate
4 7 (11.67%) Azure
5 6 (10.00%) GitHub
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
7 4 (6.67%) GCP
8 3 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) NAS
1 1 (1.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (21.67%) Relational Database
3 11 (18.33%) SQL Server
4 8 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 8 (13.33%) MongoDB
5 7 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (11.67%) NoSQL
6 5 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.00%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.67%) Big Data
9 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.67%) DataStage
9 1 (1.67%) OLTP
9 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) JUnit
2 7 (11.67%) GitLab
3 5 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
5 1 (1.67%) ChangeMan
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) IBM UrbanCode
5 1 (1.67%) Selenium
5 1 (1.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.67%) XPEDITER
General
1 14 (23.33%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Banking
2 12 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Architect
3 12 (20.00%) Senior
4 9 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 9 (15.00%) Java Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 8 (13.33%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (11.67%) DB2 Programmer
6 7 (11.67%) DB2 Systems Programmer
6 7 (11.67%) Mainframe Programmer
6 7 (11.67%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
6 7 (11.67%) Programmer
6 7 (11.67%) Systems Programmer
7 6 (10.00%) AWS Developer
7 6 (10.00%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (8.33%) Mainframe Developer
9 4 (6.67%) Database Architect
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Architect
9 4 (6.67%) Senior Database Architect
10 3 (5.00%) Data Storage Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) Web Services
2 12 (20.00%) Kafka
3 11 (18.33%) SOAP
3 11 (18.33%) Spring
3 11 (18.33%) WSDL
4 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
4 9 (15.00%) XSLT
5 8 (13.33%) JMS
5 8 (13.33%) RESTful
6 7 (11.67%) J2EE
6 7 (11.67%) OC4J
6 7 (11.67%) TIBCO EMS
6 7 (11.67%) XML
6 7 (11.67%) XSD
7 5 (8.33%) React
7 5 (8.33%) REST
8 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
8 4 (6.67%) JSON
9 3 (5.00%) Ember.js
9 3 (5.00%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 26 (43.33%) Mainframe
2 5 (8.33%) DataPower
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Replication
4 3 (5.00%) Online Banking
4 3 (5.00%) VSAM
5 2 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Equities
6 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.67%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) zOS
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 4 (6.67%) Unix
4 3 (5.00%) Android
4 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) Migration
2 14 (23.33%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.33%) SOA
5 9 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 9 (15.00%) Microservices
6 8 (13.33%) Change Data Capture
6 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 7 (11.67%) AI
7 7 (11.67%) Concurrent Programming
7 7 (11.67%) Integration Testing
7 7 (11.67%) OOA/OOD
7 7 (11.67%) Resource Management
7 7 (11.67%) RUP
7 7 (11.67%) UML
8 6 (10.00%) Analytics
9 5 (8.33%) Multithreading
9 5 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) SQL
2 14 (23.33%) Python
3 13 (21.67%) Java
4 8 (13.33%) XPath
5 5 (8.33%) JCL
6 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 3 (5.00%) COBOL
8 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.67%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.67%) Perl
9 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.67%) REXX
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
9 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Degree
2 3 (5.00%) PhD
2 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.67%) CISA
4 1 (1.67%) CISM
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
1 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) NFS
2 1 (1.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
1 7 (11.67%) TIBCO Hawk
2 2 (3.33%) CA Endevor
2 2 (3.33%) Grafana
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) IBM
1 16 (26.67%) Oracle
2 10 (16.67%) Sybase
3 7 (11.67%) BEA
3 7 (11.67%) TIBCO
4 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.33%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.67%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (1.67%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.67%) Confluent
6 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.67%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.67%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.67%) Informatica
6 1 (1.67%) Perforce
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy
6 1 (1.67%) StreamSets