DB2 Contract Job Trends in Wales

IBM DB2
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in 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 47 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.22% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -5.00% -13.04% +5.50%

All Database & BI Skills
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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 47 58 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.35% 15.72% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 47 74
10th Percentile £304 £199 £207
25th Percentile £393 £252 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.75% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £538
90th Percentile £668 £596 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 -
UK median hourly rate £51.25 £35.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year +46.43% -17.35% -29.43%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

DB2 job vacancy trend in Wales

DB2
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DB2

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DB2

DB2
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Wales - 1 - -
DB2
UK

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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