DB2 Contract Job Trends in the North East

IBM DB2
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.19% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.92% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £474 £550
% change year-on-year +5.49% -13.82% +3.29%

All Database & BI Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 52 44 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 10.12% 13.84% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 27 15
10th Percentile £374 £358 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £477
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -3.04% -17.04%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £663
90th Percentile £625 £660 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.61%
75th Percentile - - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.44% -17.98% -31.91%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

DB2 job vacancy trend in the North East

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £363 - 2
DB2
England

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared