DB2 Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

IBM DB2
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 55 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.21% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £369 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £363 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 50 40 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.62% 16.13% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 26 10
10th Percentile £371 £358 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £443
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% +4.24% -26.25%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £485
90th Percentile £625 £663 £605
North East median daily rate £475 £463 £477
% change year-on-year +2.70% -3.04% -17.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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