DB2 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM DB2
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DB2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DB2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 294 371
Rank change year-on-year +44 +77 +100
Contract jobs citing DB2 54 51 106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.33% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.57% 1.75% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 33 56
10th Percentile £321 £358 £450
25th Percentile £393 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £459 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.75% -18.40% +2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £646
90th Percentile £575 £678 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - £66.00
75th Percentile £66.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - +40.43%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

DB2
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DB2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DB2 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DB2
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DB2.

DB2 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing DB2 over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

DB2 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DB2.

DB2 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DB2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 4 (7.41%) CICS
3 2 (3.70%) JBoss
3 2 (3.70%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (1.85%) CMS
4 1 (1.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (5.56%) AWS
1 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (1.85%) GCP
2 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
2 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (61.11%) Relational Database
2 30 (55.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (7.41%) RDBMS
3 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) IMS/DB
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Adabas
5 1 (1.85%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.85%) DataStage
5 1 (1.85%) Informix
5 1 (1.85%) Metadata
5 1 (1.85%) MS Access
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 34 (62.96%) JUnit
2 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 36 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (61.11%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (55.56%) Finance
4 24 (44.44%) Banking
5 20 (37.04%) Investment Banking
6 13 (24.07%) Front Office
7 1 (1.85%) Arabic Language
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) French Language
7 1 (1.85%) German Language
7 1 (1.85%) Japanese Language
7 1 (1.85%) Korean Language
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (68.52%) Developer
2 34 (62.96%) Java Developer
3 18 (33.33%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 18 (33.33%) SQL Developer
4 12 (22.22%) Senior
5 11 (20.37%) Linux Developer
5 11 (20.37%) Senior Developer
5 11 (20.37%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 11 (20.37%) Senior Java Developer
5 11 (20.37%) Senior SQL Developer
6 7 (12.96%) Sybase Developer
7 6 (11.11%) Architect
8 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Information Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Information Systems Architect
9 4 (7.41%) Systems Architect
10 2 (3.70%) COBOL Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Mainframe Developer
10 2 (3.70%) Product Specialist
10 2 (3.70%) Technical Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (62.96%) Spring
2 32 (59.26%) Kafka
3 25 (46.30%) JMS
4 5 (9.26%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.41%) Middleware
6 3 (5.56%) J2EE
6 3 (5.56%) SOAP
6 3 (5.56%) Web Services
7 2 (3.70%) EJB
7 2 (3.70%) JDBC
7 2 (3.70%) MSMQ
7 2 (3.70%) RESTful
7 2 (3.70%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (3.70%) XML
7 2 (3.70%) XSLT
8 1 (1.85%) Java EE
8 1 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 31 (57.41%) Data Structures
2 26 (48.15%) Equities
3 5 (9.26%) Mainframe
4 4 (7.41%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.41%) VSAM
5 3 (5.56%) Derivative
6 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.85%) Clustering
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.85%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 38 (70.37%) Linux
2 10 (18.52%) Unix
3 6 (11.11%) Windows
4 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) Agile
1 39 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (61.11%) SDLC
3 28 (51.85%) Multithreading
4 27 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 26 (48.15%) Database Tuning
5 26 (48.15%) Open Source
6 9 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 6 (11.11%) Event-Driven
8 5 (9.26%) Concurrent Programming
8 5 (9.26%) DevOps
8 5 (9.26%) Project Management
9 4 (7.41%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.41%) Data Management
9 4 (7.41%) Information Management
9 4 (7.41%) Roadmaps
10 3 (5.56%) Capacity Management
10 3 (5.56%) Data Virtualisation
10 3 (5.56%) Digital Transformation Strategy
10 3 (5.56%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (83.33%) SQL
2 39 (72.22%) Java
3 35 (64.81%) Python
4 27 (50.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (9.26%) REXX
6 4 (7.41%) Bash
6 4 (7.41%) COBOL
6 4 (7.41%) JCL
7 3 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.85%) Assembly Language
8 1 (1.85%) Korn
8 1 (1.85%) Natural
8 1 (1.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 6 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (1.85%) Ansible
1 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.85%) TADDM
1 1 (1.85%) Terraform
1 1 (1.85%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 36 (66.67%) Sybase
2 7 (12.96%) Oracle
3 6 (11.11%) IBM
4 3 (5.56%) Delphix
5 2 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.85%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.85%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow