DB2 Contract Job Trends

IBM DB2
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 527 411 475
Rank change year-on-year -116 +64 +24
Contract jobs citing DB2 103 115 104
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.40% 0.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 2.08% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 54 65
10th Percentile £361 £362 £358
25th Percentile £413 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -3.68% -13.64%
75th Percentile £585 £550 £600
90th Percentile £678 £600 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £469 £413
% change year-on-year -13.29% +13.58% -22.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £63.00 -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,274 5,530 7,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.08% 19.00% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,902 3,794 5,225
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £475
% change year-on-year -1.45% +1.47% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 98 148
10th Percentile £15.50 £21.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £24.25 £20.93
Median hourly rate £47.00 £34.83 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.96% -12.94% -30.43%
75th Percentile £73.00 £65.90 £61.53
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.86 £73.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.85 £39.25
% change year-on-year +41.31% -18.87% -28.64%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in the UK

DB2
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DB2

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DB2 over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DB2 in the UK

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DB2

DB2
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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
England -101 74 £550 +23.04% 16
London -45 55 £550 +22.22% 7
Work from Home -69 36 £520 +6.02% 2
UK excluding London -138 33 £406 -13.29% 9
Scotland -25 17 - -
North of England -70 13 £406 +1.06% 3
North West -42 8 £301 -25.25% 1
Yorkshire -50 4 £514 -6.55% 2
South East -54 2 £458 -3.68% 3
North East - 1 £363 -
Wales - 1 - -

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 23 (22.33%) CICS
2 3 (2.91%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.94%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.97%) Apache
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) Documentum
4 1 (0.97%) FileNet
4 1 (0.97%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.97%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.24%) AWS
2 13 (12.62%) GitHub
3 9 (8.74%) Azure
3 9 (8.74%) ChatGPT
3 9 (8.74%) GitHub Copilot
4 8 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (7.77%) Serverless
5 7 (6.80%) Anthropic Claude
6 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.85%) GCP
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.88%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.91%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (1.94%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.97%) Firewall
1 1 (0.97%) HTTP
1 1 (0.97%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.97%) NAS
1 1 (0.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.45%) Relational Database
2 15 (14.56%) MongoDB
2 15 (14.56%) SQL Server
3 14 (13.59%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (11.65%) Metadata
5 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (3.88%) DataStage
9 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.94%) Power BI
11 1 (0.97%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 7 (6.80%) GitLab
2 6 (5.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.88%) JUnit
4 3 (2.91%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (2.91%) JIRA
5 2 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.97%) ChangeMan
6 1 (0.97%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.97%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.97%) ERwin
6 1 (0.97%) Git
6 1 (0.97%) JMeter
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Developer 2000
6 1 (0.97%) Postman
6 1 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.97%) XPEDITER
General
1 31 (30.10%) Banking
1 31 (30.10%) Finance
2 27 (26.21%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.80%) Front Office
6 6 (5.83%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.91%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.97%) German Language
10 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Military
10 1 (0.97%) Retail
10 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (20.39%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Architect
3 12 (11.65%) Administrator
4 10 (9.71%) Systems Administrator
5 9 (8.74%) Data Architect
5 9 (8.74%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Senior
6 8 (7.77%) DB2 Programmer
6 8 (7.77%) DB2 Systems Programmer
6 8 (7.77%) Programmer
6 8 (7.77%) Systems Programmer
6 8 (7.77%) Technical Specialist
7 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Mainframe Programmer
7 7 (6.80%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
8 6 (5.83%) Mainframe Specialist
9 5 (4.85%) Mainframe Developer
9 5 (4.85%) Python Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) Web Services
2 10 (9.71%) RESTful
3 9 (8.74%) Spring
4 8 (7.77%) Kafka
4 8 (7.77%) REST
4 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.80%) React
5 7 (6.80%) SOAP
5 7 (6.80%) WSDL
6 6 (5.83%) JSON
7 4 (3.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.88%) XSLT
8 3 (2.91%) Backbone.js
8 3 (2.91%) Bootstrap
8 3 (2.91%) CSS
8 3 (2.91%) Ember.js
8 3 (2.91%) jQuery
8 3 (2.91%) Keras
8 3 (2.91%) OAuth
8 3 (2.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (55.34%) Mainframe
2 14 (13.59%) VSAM
3 9 (8.74%) Equity Derivative
4 8 (7.77%) Derivative
5 6 (5.83%) DataPower
5 6 (5.83%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.85%) Clustering
7 4 (3.88%) IBM Mainframe
7 4 (3.88%) Online Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.94%) Replication
9 2 (1.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.97%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.97%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.98%) zOS
2 16 (15.53%) Linux
2 16 (15.53%) Windows
3 13 (12.62%) Unix
4 7 (6.80%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.83%) AIX
6 3 (2.91%) Android
6 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.94%) MVS
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (24.27%) Migration
2 21 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (19.42%) CI/CD
4 19 (18.45%) Performance Tuning
5 17 (16.50%) AI
6 14 (13.59%) TDD
7 13 (12.62%) Data Migration
7 13 (12.62%) High Availability
8 12 (11.65%) Data Lineage
8 12 (11.65%) LLM
8 12 (11.65%) Validation
9 10 (9.71%) Agile
9 10 (9.71%) BDD
9 10 (9.71%) Data Governance
9 10 (9.71%) ETL
10 9 (8.74%) Batch Processing
10 9 (8.74%) Data Architecture
10 9 (8.74%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (8.74%) Machine Learning
10 9 (8.74%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.81%) SQL
2 24 (23.30%) Python
3 20 (19.42%) Java
3 20 (19.42%) JCL
4 16 (15.53%) COBOL
5 10 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 7 (6.80%) C++
6 7 (6.80%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.83%) Bash
7 6 (5.83%) Perl
8 5 (4.85%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.85%) REXX
9 4 (3.88%) Assembly Language
9 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.91%) XPath
11 2 (1.94%) HLASM
12 1 (0.97%) Bicep
12 1 (0.97%) Groovy
12 1 (0.97%) Micro Focus COBOL
12 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.83%) Degree
1 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.91%) CISA
2 3 (2.91%) PhD
2 3 (2.91%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
3 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.97%) CISM
4 1 (0.97%) CISSP
4 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.94%) SEPA
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Docker
1 6 (5.83%) Hyper-V
1 6 (5.83%) KVM
1 6 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.88%) RACF
3 3 (2.91%) ACF2
4 1 (0.97%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) IBM BigFix
2 6 (5.83%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.91%) Ansible
3 3 (2.91%) Terraform
4 2 (1.94%) CA Endevor
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) OMEGAMON
4 2 (1.94%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.97%) MAINVIEW
5 1 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.97%) SCCM
5 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 40 (38.83%) IBM
2 16 (15.53%) Oracle
3 15 (14.56%) Sybase
4 8 (7.77%) Broadcom
5 6 (5.83%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.94%) BEA
7 2 (1.94%) Informatica
7 2 (1.94%) Teradata
7 2 (1.94%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.97%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.97%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.97%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.97%) Databricks
8 1 (0.97%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.97%) Greenplum
8 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.97%) Solace
8 1 (0.97%) Splunk