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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 318 386
Rank change year-on-year +7 +68 +86
Contract jobs citing DB2 60 63 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.43% 0.40% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.06% 1.86% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 36 26
10th Percentile £355 £372 £338
25th Percentile £400 £439 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £650
90th Percentile £730 £688 -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +0.92%

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 2,906 3,387 3,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.89% 21.62% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,019 2,385 2,805
10th Percentile £368 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £700 £688
90th Percentile £790 £838 £788
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.19
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.56 £55.25 £63.94
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £48.45
% change year-on-year +24.29% -27.76% -3.11%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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 5 £400 -15.61% 12
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 4 (6.67%) CICS
1 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.00%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (3.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.33%) AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Azure
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
3 5 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (8.33%) Serverless
4 4 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (6.67%) GCP
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.67%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
1 1 (1.67%) LAN
1 1 (1.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (41.67%) MongoDB
1 25 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 10 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (15.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.67%) Hadoop
4 7 (11.67%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.00%) MemSQL
5 6 (10.00%) Sybase IQ
6 5 (8.33%) DynamoDB
6 5 (8.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (3.33%) Power BI
9 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (36.67%) JUnit
2 7 (11.67%) JIRA
3 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.67%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.00%) Selenium
5 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.33%) Git
6 2 (3.33%) GitLab
6 2 (3.33%) Maven
7 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.67%) Mockito
7 1 (1.67%) Postman
7 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.67%) Subversion
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.67%) Xcode
7 1 (1.67%) XCTest
General
1 35 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (48.33%) Banking
4 28 (46.67%) Finance
5 17 (28.33%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Developer
2 31 (51.67%) Java Developer
3 26 (43.33%) Senior
4 21 (35.00%) Senior Developer
4 21 (35.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 16 (26.67%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 16 (26.67%) Linux Developer
5 16 (26.67%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 16 (26.67%) Senior SQL Developer
5 16 (26.67%) SQL Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Administrator
6 5 (8.33%) AWS Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Consultant
7 4 (6.67%) Architect
7 4 (6.67%) DB2 Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Mainframe Programmer
7 4 (6.67%) Programmer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Agile Developer
8 3 (5.00%) DB2 Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (41.67%) Spring
2 24 (40.00%) Kafka
3 19 (31.67%) JMS
4 9 (15.00%) Spring Boot
5 7 (11.67%) HTML
6 5 (8.33%) SOAP
6 5 (8.33%) Web Services
7 4 (6.67%) CSS
7 4 (6.67%) J2EE
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js
7 4 (6.67%) React
7 4 (6.67%) RESTful
7 4 (6.67%) WSDL
7 4 (6.67%) XML
7 4 (6.67%) XSLT
8 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (5.00%) Gherkin
8 3 (5.00%) OC4J
8 3 (5.00%) TIBCO EMS
8 3 (5.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 22 (36.67%) Data Structures
2 16 (26.67%) Equities
3 8 (13.33%) Mainframe
4 7 (11.67%) Replication
5 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
5 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (5.00%) AS400
7 3 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (5.00%) iSeries
8 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.67%) DataPower
9 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.67%) Online Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.67%) VSAM
9 1 (1.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.67%) Linux
2 4 (6.67%) Unix
3 3 (5.00%) zOS
4 2 (3.33%) AIX
4 2 (3.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (53.33%) Agile
3 23 (38.33%) SDLC
4 21 (35.00%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (28.33%) Multithreading
5 17 (28.33%) Open Source
6 16 (26.67%) Database Tuning
7 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
8 10 (16.67%) Microservices
9 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
9 8 (13.33%) Integration Testing
9 8 (13.33%) Migration
10 7 (11.67%) Performance Analysis
11 6 (10.00%) Change Data Capture
11 6 (10.00%) Concurrent Programming
11 6 (10.00%) Design Patterns
11 6 (10.00%) Performance Engineering
12 5 (8.33%) Code Quality
12 5 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (61.67%) Java
2 34 (56.67%) SQL
3 28 (46.67%) Python
4 20 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.67%) COBOL
6 4 (6.67%) XPath
7 3 (5.00%) JCL
8 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.33%) REXX
8 2 (3.33%) VB
8 2 (3.33%) VBA
9 1 (1.67%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) PL/1
9 1 (1.67%) RPG
9 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.67%) CFA
2 1 (1.67%) Degree
2 1 (1.67%) GPEN
2 1 (1.67%) GWAPT
2 1 (1.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) RACF
Systems Management
1 11 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.00%) TIBCO Hawk
3 1 (1.67%) CA Endevor
3 1 (1.67%) Control-M
3 1 (1.67%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (1.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Sybase
2 11 (18.33%) Oracle
3 10 (16.67%) IBM
4 5 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
6 3 (5.00%) BEA
6 3 (5.00%) TIBCO
7 2 (3.33%) Cognos
7 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.33%) Guidewire
7 2 (3.33%) Splunk
8 1 (1.67%) Avaloq
8 1 (1.67%) Confluent
8 1 (1.67%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.67%) FNZ
8 1 (1.67%) Google
8 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.67%) RightFax
8 1 (1.67%) StreamSets