DB2 Contract Job Trends in South Wales

IBM DB2
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.29% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.03% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wales median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 43 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 9.57% 14.05% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 59
10th Percentile £304 £176 £207
25th Percentile £400 £213 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £556
90th Percentile £725 £598 £626
Wales median daily rate £411 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -17.75% +25.00% -23.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £30.38 £25.23 -
25th Percentile £30.94 £25.44 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.69% - -
75th Percentile £85.63 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £86.75 £26.38 -
Wales median hourly rate £56.25 £25.84 -
% change year-on-year +117.69% - -

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in South Wales

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
Newport - 1 - -
DB2
Wales

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) DBA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk