The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cardiff 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 28 27 22
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -5
Contract jobs citing DB2 3 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.442% 3.415% 4.641%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 12.28% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 6
Average daily rate £388 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £425 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-22.41% -17.14%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
30 57 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 14.42% 27.80% 21.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 27
Average daily rate £388 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% +7.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +136.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
DB2
South Wales

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 10 (90.91%) RPG
2 8 (72.73%) IBM
2 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 8 (72.73%) IIS
2 8 (72.73%) OS/400
3 7 (63.64%) UNIX
3 7 (63.64%) COBOL
3 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
3 7 (63.64%) WebSphere
3 7 (63.64%) AS400
4 6 (54.55%) iSeries
4 6 (54.55%) Project Management
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
4 6 (54.55%) MS Office
5 5 (45.45%) MS Project
5 5 (45.45%) UML
5 5 (45.45%) OO
5 5 (45.45%) TestDirector
6 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
6 4 (36.36%) Degree
7 3 (27.27%) AIX
8 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (18.18%) Banking
8 2 (18.18%) SLA
8 2 (18.18%) Windows
8 2 (18.18%) RPG IV
8 2 (18.18%) Rackspace
9 1 (9.091%) Talend
9 1 (9.091%) Master Data Management
9 1 (9.091%) Data Governance

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 7 (63.64%) WebSphere
2 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
2 1 (9.091%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Office
2 5 (45.45%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) TestDirector
2 1 (9.091%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Support Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Support Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Applications Support
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (9.091%) AS400 Support
4 1 (9.091%) AS400 Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) AS400
2 6 (54.55%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) OS/400
2 7 (63.64%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Project Management
2 5 (45.45%) UML
2 5 (45.45%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.091%) Master Data Management
4 1 (9.091%) Data Governance
4 1 (9.091%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.091%) ETL
4 1 (9.091%) Data Management
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) RPG
2 7 (63.64%) COBOL
2 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) IBM
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Rackspace
4 1 (9.091%) Talend
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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