Hybrid/Remote DB2 Contract Job Trends

IBM DB2
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DB2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 287 327
Rank change year-on-year +29 +40 +131
Contract jobs citing DB2 50 38 46
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.49% 0.32% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.59% 1.64% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 26
10th Percentile £380 £366 £344
25th Percentile £430 £452 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £631 £650
90th Percentile £648 £765 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £63.00 -

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 1,928 2,323 3,090
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.97% 19.72% 17.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 1,605 2,248
10th Percentile £335 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £825 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.14 £16.52
25th Percentile £37.00 £21.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £62.75 £28.00 £44.12
Median % change year-on-year +124.11% -36.54% -19.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £43.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £65.20 £77.63
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £30.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year +43.09% -34.17% -7.73%

DB2
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DB2 and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DB2 job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DB2
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DB2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DB2

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DB2 over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

DB2 daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DB2.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DB2

DB2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 6 (12.00%) CICS
2 2 (4.00%) JBoss
2 2 (4.00%) SAS
2 2 (4.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (4.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (2.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Advent Geneva
2 1 (2.00%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (4.00%) Azure
4 2 (4.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 25 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (6.00%) MySQL
4 3 (6.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 2 (4.00%) IMS/DB
5 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.00%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Cognos Report Studio
6 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.00%) Power BI
6 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (56.00%) JUnit
2 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.00%) GCC
3 2 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.00%) Mockito
4 1 (2.00%) Postman
4 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.00%) Subversion
4 1 (2.00%) Xcode
4 1 (2.00%) XCTest
General
1 33 (66.00%) Finance
1 33 (66.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (58.00%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (56.00%) Banking
4 24 (48.00%) Investment Banking
5 14 (28.00%) Front Office
6 3 (6.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Arabic Language
7 1 (2.00%) French Language
7 1 (2.00%) German Language
7 1 (2.00%) Japanese Language
7 1 (2.00%) Korean Language
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (70.00%) Developer
2 29 (58.00%) Java Developer
3 24 (48.00%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 24 (48.00%) SQL Developer
4 15 (30.00%) Senior
5 14 (28.00%) Senior Developer
5 14 (28.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 12 (24.00%) Linux Developer
6 12 (24.00%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
6 12 (24.00%) Senior SQL Developer
6 12 (24.00%) Sybase Developer
7 4 (8.00%) Mainframe Programmer
7 4 (8.00%) Programmer
8 2 (4.00%) Administrator
8 2 (4.00%) Architect
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Consultant
8 2 (4.00%) Mainframe Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
8 2 (4.00%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (62.00%) Kafka
2 29 (58.00%) Spring
3 26 (52.00%) JMS
4 4 (8.00%) Middleware
4 4 (8.00%) REST
4 4 (8.00%) SOAP
4 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.00%) .NET
5 3 (6.00%) HTML
5 3 (6.00%) ISPF
5 3 (6.00%) Web Services
6 2 (4.00%) CSS
6 2 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.00%) J2EE
7 1 (2.00%) CSS3
7 1 (2.00%) Jest
7 1 (2.00%) PySpark
7 1 (2.00%) RAML
7 1 (2.00%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 25 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 24 (48.00%) Equities
3 10 (20.00%) Mainframe
4 4 (8.00%) Replication
5 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (2.00%) AS400
7 1 (2.00%) Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Derivative
7 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Equity Derivative
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
2 6 (12.00%) zOS
3 4 (8.00%) Unix
4 3 (6.00%) Windows
5 2 (4.00%) OS/2
6 1 (2.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Performance Tuning
2 33 (66.00%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (64.00%) Agile
4 28 (56.00%) SDLC
5 25 (50.00%) Database Tuning
5 25 (50.00%) Multithreading
6 24 (48.00%) Open Source
7 6 (12.00%) Change Data Capture
8 5 (10.00%) High Availability
8 5 (10.00%) Migration
8 5 (10.00%) Runbook
9 4 (8.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (8.00%) Microservices
9 4 (8.00%) Validation
10 3 (6.00%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (6.00%) Concurrent Programming
10 3 (6.00%) Fund Accounting
10 3 (6.00%) ITIL
10 3 (6.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 3 (6.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 41 (82.00%) SQL
2 34 (68.00%) Java
3 30 (60.00%) Python
4 26 (52.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.00%) JCL
6 4 (8.00%) COBOL
7 3 (6.00%) Assembly Language
7 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.00%) PL/1
7 3 (6.00%) REXX
8 2 (4.00%) Bash
8 2 (4.00%) CLIST
8 2 (4.00%) Perl
8 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.00%) Groovy
9 1 (2.00%) RPG
9 1 (2.00%) RPG IV
9 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.00%) Degree
1 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) RACF
1 4 (8.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 3 (6.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 2 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) OMEGAMON
1 2 (4.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (2.00%) CA Endevor
2 1 (2.00%) Control-M
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.00%) TADDM
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 27 (54.00%) Sybase
2 10 (20.00%) IBM
3 6 (12.00%) Oracle
4 3 (6.00%) Advent
4 3 (6.00%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.00%) Cognos
5 2 (4.00%) Informatica
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.00%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.00%) Syncsort