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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 318 351
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 +106
Contract jobs citing DB2 52 45 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.32% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.79% 1.49% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 13 26
10th Percentile £350 £281 £463
25th Percentile £428 £373 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £474 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.36% -27.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £694 £529 £665
90th Percentile £731 £590 £738
England median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +9.09%

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 2,913 3,022 3,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.31% 21.57% 19.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,025 2,066 2,548
10th Percentile £358 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £699 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £23.20
25th Percentile £29.25 £26.21 £30.62
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -5.00% +6.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £56.44
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £64.51
England median hourly rate £43.50 £39.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.33% -18.18%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 0 2 £400 -15.61%
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 (13.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (13.46%) WebLogic
1 7 (13.46%) WebSphere
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (13.46%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (3.85%) Loan IQ
3 1 (1.92%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 7 (13.46%) Amazon S3
3 6 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (9.62%) Serverless
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.77%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (5.77%) Azure
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.85%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (36.54%) Relational Database
2 15 (28.85%) MongoDB
2 15 (28.85%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (9.62%) NoSQL
5 4 (7.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.77%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.77%) RDBMS
7 2 (3.85%) MemSQL
7 2 (3.85%) Power BI
7 2 (3.85%) Sybase IQ
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.92%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.92%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) JUnit
2 5 (9.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (9.62%) JIRA
3 4 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.77%) Cucumber
4 3 (5.77%) Selenium
4 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.85%) GitLab
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (34.62%) Banking
2 18 (34.62%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (48.08%) Developer
2 20 (38.46%) Senior
3 19 (36.54%) Java Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Senior Developer
4 14 (26.92%) Senior Java Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Investment Banking Java Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Linux Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior SQL Developer
5 9 (17.31%) SQL Developer
6 8 (15.38%) Architect
7 6 (11.54%) Database Architect
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Architect
7 6 (11.54%) Senior Database Architect
7 6 (11.54%) TIBCO Developer
8 5 (9.62%) Consultant
9 4 (7.69%) AWS Developer
10 3 (5.77%) Agile Developer
10 3 (5.77%) Agile Java Developer
10 3 (5.77%) TIBCO BusinessWorks Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (34.62%) Kafka
2 16 (30.77%) JMS
2 16 (30.77%) Spring
3 8 (15.38%) Web Services
3 8 (15.38%) XSLT
4 7 (13.46%) J2EE
4 7 (13.46%) OC4J
4 7 (13.46%) SOAP
4 7 (13.46%) Spring Boot
4 7 (13.46%) TIBCO EMS
4 7 (13.46%) WSDL
4 7 (13.46%) XML
4 7 (13.46%) XSD
5 5 (9.62%) HTML
6 4 (7.69%) RESTful
7 3 (5.77%) CSS
7 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (5.77%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.77%) Node.js
7 3 (5.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 12 (23.08%) Data Structures
2 9 (17.31%) Equities
3 7 (13.46%) Replication
4 4 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Mainframe
5 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.85%) AS400
6 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.85%) iSeries
6 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.92%) DataPower
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.92%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 16 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
2 3 (5.77%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) zOS
3 2 (3.85%) AIX
3 2 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (42.31%) Agile
2 19 (36.54%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (23.08%) Design Patterns
4 12 (23.08%) Migration
4 12 (23.08%) SDLC
5 11 (21.15%) Multithreading
6 10 (19.23%) Open Source
7 9 (17.31%) Change Data Capture
7 9 (17.31%) Database Tuning
7 9 (17.31%) Microservices
8 8 (15.38%) Integration Testing
9 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.46%) OOA/OOD
9 7 (13.46%) Resource Management
9 7 (13.46%) RUP
9 7 (13.46%) SOA
9 7 (13.46%) UML
10 5 (9.62%) Data Modelling
10 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (59.62%) SQL
2 24 (46.15%) Java
3 19 (36.54%) Python
4 11 (21.15%) Shell Script
5 7 (13.46%) XPath
6 5 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.85%) VB
7 2 (3.85%) VBA
8 1 (1.92%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.92%) COBOL
8 1 (1.92%) JCL
8 1 (1.92%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.92%) Degree
2 1 (1.92%) GPEN
2 1 (1.92%) GWAPT
2 1 (1.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
1 7 (13.46%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Oracle
2 14 (26.92%) Sybase
3 13 (25.00%) IBM
4 7 (13.46%) BEA
4 7 (13.46%) TIBCO
5 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.77%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (3.85%) Cognos
6 2 (3.85%) Guidewire
6 2 (3.85%) Remedy
7 1 (1.92%) Confluent
7 1 (1.92%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Informatica
7 1 (1.92%) RightFax
7 1 (1.92%) SAP
7 1 (1.92%) StreamSets