DB2 Contract Job Trends in Preston

IBM DB2
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 2.33% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 1 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 8.14% 1.79% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +42.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £680 - £369
90th Percentile - - £380
Lancashire median daily rate £410 £475 £588
% change year-on-year -13.68% -19.15% +19.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £37.63
25th Percentile - - £41.90
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.51%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.50 £24.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +162.36% -46.76% +40.51%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in Preston

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing DB2

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) KVM
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) IBM BigFix
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM