DB2 Contracts in London

IBM DB2
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 357 416
Rank change year-on-year +45 +59 +33
Contract jobs citing DB2 48 50 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.37% 0.28% 0.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.70% 1.23% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 42
10th Percentile £396 £399 £422
25th Percentile £408 £446 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -15.00%
75th Percentile £694 £603 £650
90th Percentile £845 £678 £723
England median daily rate £450 £475 £510
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.86% -5.56%

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 2,819 4,081 5,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.51% 23.16% 20.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,972 3,047 3,686
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% -2.54%
75th Percentile £708 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 45
10th Percentile £25.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £27.50 £35.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £47.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59.00 £53.75 £83.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £71.40 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for DB2 in London

DB2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DB2 in London.

Daily rate trend for DB2 in London

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in London

DB2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DB2 in London.

Hourly rate trend for DB2 in London

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 3 July 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 +5 5 £500 -13.98% 2
South London -1 1 - -
DB2
England

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.50%) Apache
1 6 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.42%) WebSphere
3 3 (6.25%) CICS
3 3 (6.25%) JBoss
4 2 (4.17%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.08%) Confluence
5 1 (2.08%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (2.08%) SAS
5 1 (2.08%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.08%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) AWS
2 10 (20.83%) Azure
3 8 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.33%) Serverless
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Glacier
7 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) Internet
1 2 (4.17%) LAN
1 2 (4.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (45.83%) Relational Database
2 20 (41.67%) MongoDB
3 9 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 8 (16.67%) Hadoop
5 6 (12.50%) Big Data
6 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (8.33%) Oracle Database
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (6.25%) Oracle Exadata
9 2 (4.17%) DataStage
9 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
9 2 (4.17%) IMS/DB
9 2 (4.17%) MemSQL
9 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.17%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
10 1 (2.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) JUnit
2 3 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Maven
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (66.67%) Finance
2 31 (64.58%) Social Skills
3 25 (52.08%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (52.08%) Banking
4 14 (29.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (54.17%) Developer
2 21 (43.75%) Java Developer
3 18 (37.50%) Senior
4 16 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 16 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
5 15 (31.25%) Linux Developer
6 14 (29.17%) Investment Banking Java Developer
6 14 (29.17%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 14 (29.17%) Senior SQL Developer
6 14 (29.17%) SQL Developer
7 7 (14.58%) Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Mainframe Programmer
8 4 (8.33%) Migration Architect
8 4 (8.33%) Programmer
9 3 (6.25%) Data Migration Architect
9 3 (6.25%) DB2 Programmer
9 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
9 3 (6.25%) Systems Programmer
10 2 (4.17%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) Spring
2 16 (33.33%) Kafka
3 14 (29.17%) JMS
4 9 (18.75%) Web Services
5 7 (14.58%) RESTful
6 6 (12.50%) React
7 5 (10.42%) SOAP
7 5 (10.42%) Spring Boot
8 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
8 4 (8.33%) WebSphere MQ
8 4 (8.33%) XML
9 3 (6.25%) JSON
9 3 (6.25%) XSLT
10 2 (4.17%) EJB
10 2 (4.17%) HTML
10 2 (4.17%) J2EE
10 2 (4.17%) JDBC
10 2 (4.17%) Middleware
10 2 (4.17%) Node.js
10 2 (4.17%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) Data Structures
2 14 (29.17%) Equities
3 7 (14.58%) Mainframe
4 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (8.33%) Reference Data
6 3 (6.25%) Replication
7 2 (4.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (4.17%) AS400
7 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.17%) iSeries
7 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (4.17%) Online Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
8 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 22 (45.83%) Linux
2 8 (16.67%) Unix
3 4 (8.33%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) zOS
4 1 (2.08%) AIX
4 1 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (45.83%) SDLC
3 15 (31.25%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (29.17%) Database Tuning
4 14 (29.17%) Multithreading
4 14 (29.17%) Open Source
5 11 (22.92%) DevOps
6 9 (18.75%) Migration
7 7 (14.58%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
8 6 (12.50%) ETL
8 6 (12.50%) Microservices
8 6 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 6 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.42%) Data Management
9 5 (10.42%) Data Migration
9 5 (10.42%) Fintech
9 5 (10.42%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 28 (58.33%) Java
2 26 (54.17%) Python
3 24 (50.00%) SQL
4 20 (41.67%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.42%) REXX
5 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.33%) COBOL
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) JCL
6 4 (8.33%) Perl
6 4 (8.33%) Scala
7 3 (6.25%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Assembly Language
8 2 (4.17%) C
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.17%) RPG
9 1 (2.08%) Bash
9 1 (2.08%) CLIST
9 1 (2.08%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (2.08%) CFA
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (2.08%) RACF
2 1 (2.08%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (2.08%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 1 (2.08%) Ansible
3 1 (2.08%) CA Endevor
3 1 (2.08%) OMEGAMON
3 1 (2.08%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.08%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Sybase
2 17 (35.42%) IBM
3 14 (29.17%) Oracle
4 4 (8.33%) Google
5 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.17%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.17%) Splunk
7 1 (2.08%) Avaloq
7 1 (2.08%) Delphix
7 1 (2.08%) FNZ
7 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.08%) Remedy
7 1 (2.08%) Syncsort