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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 310 340
Rank change year-on-year -26 +30 +69
Contract jobs citing DB2 61 42 48
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.38% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 1.42% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 30
10th Percentile £358 £322 £456
25th Percentile £413 £380 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +10.85%
75th Percentile £625 £514 £650
90th Percentile £680 £640 £738
England median daily rate £500 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +7.53% -15.45% -

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 3,078 2,951 3,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.38% 21.97% 19.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,113 2,043 2,647
10th Percentile £361 £370 £385
25th Percentile £420 £455 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +1.35% -5.11%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £28.75 £28.84 £25.90
Median hourly rate £52.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.30% -5.14% +4.01%
75th Percentile £75.94 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £91.50 £78.75 £65.27
England median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -3 8 £575 +24.46% 2
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 7 (11.48%) CICS
1 7 (11.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (11.48%) WebLogic
1 7 (11.48%) WebSphere
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
3 1 (1.64%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.64%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.64%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 26 (42.62%) AWS
2 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (14.75%) Serverless
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (11.48%) AWS Fargate
6 6 (9.84%) Azure
6 6 (9.84%) GitHub
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.56%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (6.56%) GCP
9 3 (4.92%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.92%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Relational Database
2 16 (26.23%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (22.95%) MongoDB
4 11 (18.03%) SQL Server
5 9 (14.75%) NoSQL
6 7 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (11.48%) DynamoDB
7 6 (9.84%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (8.20%) Hadoop
9 3 (4.92%) RDBMS
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (3.28%) MemSQL
10 2 (3.28%) Sybase IQ
11 1 (1.64%) Apache Hive
11 1 (1.64%) Big Data
11 1 (1.64%) Data Vault
11 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.64%) Power BI
11 1 (1.64%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (19.67%) JUnit
2 6 (9.84%) GitLab
3 5 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.56%) JIRA
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.64%) Selenium
6 1 (1.64%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.64%) XPEDITER
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Finance
3 15 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (24.59%) Banking
4 7 (11.48%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.64%) Front Office
7 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (40.98%) Developer
2 18 (29.51%) Senior
3 15 (24.59%) Java Developer
4 13 (21.31%) Architect
5 12 (19.67%) Senior Developer
5 12 (19.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 7 (11.48%) Data Architect
7 6 (9.84%) AWS Developer
7 6 (9.84%) Database Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Architect
7 6 (9.84%) Senior Database Architect
7 6 (9.84%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Investment Banking Java Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Linux Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
8 5 (8.20%) Senior SQL Developer
8 5 (8.20%) SQL Developer
9 4 (6.56%) Mainframe Developer
10 3 (4.92%) Database Manager
10 3 (4.92%) Mainframe Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.23%) Kafka
2 15 (24.59%) Spring
2 15 (24.59%) Web Services
3 12 (19.67%) JMS
4 10 (16.39%) SOAP
4 10 (16.39%) WSDL
5 9 (14.75%) Spring Boot
5 9 (14.75%) XSLT
6 7 (11.48%) J2EE
6 7 (11.48%) OC4J
6 7 (11.48%) RESTful
6 7 (11.48%) TIBCO EMS
6 7 (11.48%) XML
6 7 (11.48%) XSD
7 5 (8.20%) React
7 5 (8.20%) REST
8 4 (6.56%) AngularJS
9 3 (4.92%) Bootstrap
9 3 (4.92%) Ember.js
9 3 (4.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (26.23%) Mainframe
2 8 (13.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.20%) Equities
3 5 (8.20%) Replication
4 4 (6.56%) DataPower
5 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.28%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.28%) AS400
6 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.28%) iSeries
6 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.28%) Online Banking
6 2 (3.28%) VSAM
7 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) zOS
2 13 (21.31%) Linux
3 7 (11.48%) Windows
4 3 (4.92%) Android
4 3 (4.92%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Agile
2 18 (29.51%) Performance Tuning
2 18 (29.51%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (24.59%) Migration
4 12 (19.67%) Design Patterns
5 10 (16.39%) SOA
6 9 (14.75%) Change Data Capture
6 9 (14.75%) Microservices
6 9 (14.75%) Multithreading
6 9 (14.75%) SDLC
7 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
7 8 (13.11%) Data Migration
8 7 (11.48%) Analytics
8 7 (11.48%) Concurrent Programming
8 7 (11.48%) Integration Testing
8 7 (11.48%) OOA/OOD
8 7 (11.48%) Resource Management
8 7 (11.48%) RUP
8 7 (11.48%) UML
9 6 (9.84%) AI
Programming Languages
1 33 (54.10%) SQL
2 21 (34.43%) Python
3 20 (32.79%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) XPath
5 7 (11.48%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.92%) JCL
6 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.28%) COBOL
8 1 (1.64%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.64%) Perl
8 1 (1.64%) REXX
8 1 (1.64%) Scala
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.64%) VB
8 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) PhD
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) GPEN
5 1 (1.64%) GWAPT
5 1 (1.64%) OSCP
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.64%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) TIBCO Hawk
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 17 (27.87%) Oracle
2 15 (24.59%) IBM
3 13 (21.31%) Sybase
4 7 (11.48%) BEA
4 7 (11.48%) TIBCO
5 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.28%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.28%) Guidewire
6 2 (3.28%) Remedy
7 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.64%) Cognos
7 1 (1.64%) Confluent
7 1 (1.64%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.64%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (1.64%) Perforce
7 1 (1.64%) StreamSets