The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 42 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.226% 0.316% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.042% 1.130% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
96 177 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 21.67% 28.01% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 104 60
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £247 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
DB2
West Midlands

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham DB2 Jobs Demand Trend

DB2
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) IBM
2 10 (90.91%) HTTP
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
2 10 (90.91%) IBM HTTP Server
2 10 (90.91%) WebSphere Process Server
2 10 (90.91%) WebSphere
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (81.82%) JMS
4 7 (63.64%) LDAP
4 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
4 7 (63.64%) DNS
4 7 (63.64%) Web Services
4 7 (63.64%) .NET
4 7 (63.64%) Oracle
4 7 (63.64%) Middleware
4 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
5 6 (54.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 6 (54.55%) SOA
5 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
6 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) ESB
8 2 (18.18%) Banking
8 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
8 2 (18.18%) FTP
8 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (18.18%) Java
8 2 (18.18%) JDBC
8 2 (18.18%) SOAP
9 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 10 (90.91%) WebSphere
2 9 (81.82%) JMS
3 7 (63.64%) Web Services
3 7 (63.64%) .NET
3 7 (63.64%) Middleware
4 2 (18.18%) JDBC
4 2 (18.18%) SOAP
5 1 (9.091%) XML
5 1 (9.091%) J2EE
5 1 (9.091%) Java RMI
5 1 (9.091%) WSDL
5 1 (9.091%) JMX
5 1 (9.091%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 10 (90.91%) IBM HTTP Server
1 10 (90.91%) WebSphere Process Server
2 6 (54.55%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 3 (27.27%) ESB
4 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) HTTP
2 7 (63.64%) LDAP
2 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
2 7 (63.64%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) FTP
4 1 (9.091%) SMTP
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) HTTPS
4 1 (9.091%) IIOP
4 1 (9.091%) SSL
4 1 (9.091%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) WebSphere Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Server Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Storage Manager
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows
3 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) SOA
2 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Data Management
2 1 (9.091%) BPEL
2 1 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) Jython
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 1 (9.091%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) IBM
2 10 (90.91%) Red Hat
3 7 (63.64%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) Business Objects
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) VMware