Berkshire DB2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM DB2 skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM DB2
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Fareham Glasgow Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	127
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	29	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.034 %
As % of the category below	4.341 %	3.125 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£325
Average daily rate	£324	£338
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£386
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.50	£31.00
Average hourly rate	£38.00	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+18.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.50	£33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.35	£34.54
% change on same period last year	+13.91 %
Database & Business Intelligence Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	668	1088
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.889 %	1.103 %
Daily rates quoted	188	329
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£360
Average daily rate	£366	£375
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.60	£38.51
Average hourly rate	£36.47	£39.67
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.34	£40.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
DB2 South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DB2
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

DB2
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DB2 across the Berkshire region.

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Berkshire region.

DB2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

DB2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	-2	9	£370	+5.71 %
Slough	-	9	£210	-

DB2 South East

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DB2 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DB2.

1 56 (53.33 %) Java 2 54 (51.43 %) Oracle 3 47 (44.76 %) WebSphere 4 44 (41.90 %) Finance 4 44 (41.90 %) SQL 5 43 (40.95 %) J2EE 6 40 (38.10 %) IBM 7 32 (30.48 %) RDBMS 8 30 (28.57 %) RUP 9 27 (25.71 %) SQL Server 10 26 (24.76 %) WebSphere Application Server 11 23 (21.90 %) JSP 12 22 (20.95 %) Struts 12 22 (20.95 %) DB2 UDB 13 20 (19.05 %) IIS

14 19 (18.10 %) UML 15 17 (16.19 %) HTML 15 17 (16.19 %) Windows 15 17 (16.19 %) OO 15 17 (16.19 %) Migration 16 16 (15.24 %) MS Excel 17 15 (14.29 %) JavaScript 18 14 (13.33 %) ASP 18 14 (13.33 %) CSS 18 14 (13.33 %) Flash 18 14 (13.33 %) Windows Server 2003 18 14 (13.33 %) Extranet 19 13 (12.38 %) Dreamweaver 19 13 (12.38 %) Photoshop 19 13 (12.38 %) VSS/SourceSafe

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DB2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DB2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 47 (44.76 %) WebSphere 2 43 (40.95 %) J2EE 3 23 (21.90 %) JSP 4 22 (20.95 %) Struts 5 17 (16.19 %) HTML 6 14 (13.33 %) ASP 6 14 (13.33 %) CSS 7 11 (10.48 %) JRules 8 10 (9.524 %) ASP.NET 8 10 (9.524 %) .NET 9 8 (7.619 %) Spring 9 8 (7.619 %) AJAX 9 8 (7.619 %) Hibernate 10 6 (5.714 %) Servlets 11 3 (2.857 %) JDBC 11 3 (2.857 %) XHTML 12 1 (0.952 %) WebServices 12 1 (0.952 %) XML 12 1 (0.952 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 26 (24.76 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 20 (19.05 %) IIS 3 1 (0.952 %) Apache 3 1 (0.952 %) Tomcat 3 1 (0.952 %) Oracle HTTP Server 3 1 (0.952 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (0.952 %) IBM HTTP Server
Applications 1 16 (15.24 %) MS Excel 2 13 (12.38 %) Photoshop 3 12 (11.43 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (0.952 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 14 (13.33 %) Extranet 2 13 (12.38 %) Internet 3 2 (1.905 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (1.905 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.952 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (30.48 %) RDBMS 2 27 (25.71 %) SQL Server 3 22 (20.95 %) DB2 UDB 4 10 (9.524 %) Datawarehouse 5 7 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2000 5 7 (6.667 %) SQL Server 2005 6 5 (4.762 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 4 (3.810 %) Data Cleansing 8 3 (2.857 %) Informix 8 3 (2.857 %) SQL Server 7
Development Applications 1 14 (13.33 %) Flash 2 13 (12.38 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 13 (12.38 %) Dreamweaver 3 10 (9.524 %) TestDirector 4 8 (7.619 %) ERwin 5 6 (5.714 %) QuickTest Pro 6 2 (1.905 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.952 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.952 %) WinRunner	General 1 44 (41.90 %) Finance 2 8 (7.619 %) Multimedia 3 4 (3.810 %) Billing 4 2 (1.905 %) Retail 4 2 (1.905 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (0.952 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.952 %) Automotive 5 1 (0.952 %) Banking 5 1 (0.952 %) Animation
Job Titles 1 53 (50.48 %) Developer 2 33 (31.43 %) Java Developer 3 32 (30.48 %) J2EE Developer 4 31 (29.52 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 15 (14.29 %) Analyst 6 13 (12.38 %) Web Developer 7 12 (11.43 %) Tester 8 7 (6.667 %) Data Modeller 9 6 (5.714 %) Architect 10 5 (4.762 %) Business Analyst 10 5 (4.762 %) Data Architect 10 5 (4.762 %) SAP Architect 11 4 (3.810 %) Programmer 11 4 (3.810 %) SAP Technical Architect 11 4 (3.810 %) Project Leader 11 4 (3.810 %) Technical Architect 11 4 (3.810 %) Data Analyst 12 3 (2.857 %) Analyst Programmer 12 3 (2.857 %) Functional Tester 12 3 (2.857 %) Java Programmer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.714 %) Mainframe 2 2 (1.905 %) Replication 3 1 (0.952 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 17 (16.19 %) Windows 2 14 (13.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 11 (10.48 %) UNIX 4 7 (6.667 %) AIX 5 6 (5.714 %) MVS 6 3 (2.857 %) Windows NT 7 2 (1.905 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 30 (28.57 %) RUP 2 19 (18.10 %) UML 3 17 (16.19 %) Migration 3 17 (16.19 %) OO 4 9 (8.571 %) Release Management 4 9 (8.571 %) Data Modelling 4 9 (8.571 %) Business Intelligence 5 6 (5.714 %) Data Migration 6 5 (4.762 %) Project Management 6 5 (4.762 %) SAP Implementation 7 4 (3.810 %) CRM 8 3 (2.857 %) Regression Testing 8 3 (2.857 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (1.905 %) Web Development 9 2 (1.905 %) Load Balancing 9 2 (1.905 %) OOD 9 2 (1.905 %) OOA/OOD 10 1 (0.952 %) E-Commerce 10 1 (0.952 %) Stakeholder Management 10 1 (0.952 %) Automated Testing
Programming Languages 1 56 (53.33 %) Java 2 44 (41.90 %) SQL 3 15 (14.29 %) JavaScript 4 12 (11.43 %) ActionScript 5 5 (4.762 %) C 6 4 (3.810 %) Perl 7 3 (2.857 %) Shell Script 7 3 (2.857 %) VB.NET 8 2 (1.905 %) Jython 8 2 (1.905 %) Korn 8 2 (1.905 %) C#	Qualifications 1 11 (10.48 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (10.48 %) QA	Systems Management 1 2 (1.905 %) Tivoli 1 2 (1.905 %) CONTROL-M 2 1 (0.952 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 54 (51.43 %) Oracle 2 40 (38.10 %) IBM 3 12 (11.43 %) SAP 4 10 (9.524 %) ILOG 5 9 (8.571 %) MicroStrategy 6 4 (3.810 %) Ab Initio 7 3 (2.857 %) Sybase 8 2 (1.905 %) Microsoft 8 2 (1.905 %) Informatica