The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 169 168 175
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +7
Contract jobs citing DB2 34 50 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.533% 0.636% 0.715%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.475% 3.479% 3.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 52
Average daily rate £525 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £320 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £573
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £39.00 £62.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.60%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-26.22% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
1374 1437 1816
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 21.54% 18.27% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1030 1034 1360
Average daily rate £425 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 14
Average hourly rate £36.04 £33.75 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% +31.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.10 £17.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.75 £47.50 £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DB2
London

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London DB2 Daily Rate Histogram

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 25 (38.46%) Banking
3 24 (36.92%) Finance
3 24 (36.92%) Oracle
4 19 (29.23%) ETL
5 18 (27.69%) IBM
5 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
6 15 (23.08%) Mainframe
7 14 (21.54%) Java
7 14 (21.54%) UNIX
8 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
8 12 (18.46%) Informatica
9 11 (16.92%) XML
10 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (15.38%) zOS
11 9 (13.85%) ESB
11 9 (13.85%) Investment Banking
12 8 (12.31%) WebSphere Message Broker
12 8 (12.31%) SWIFT
12 8 (12.31%) Big Data
12 8 (12.31%) Migration
12 8 (12.31%) E-Commerce
13 7 (10.77%) HP
13 7 (10.77%) Windows
13 7 (10.77%) Sybase
13 7 (10.77%) Perl
13 7 (10.77%) Hadoop
14 6 (9.231%) QA
14 6 (9.231%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (9.231%) Data Management

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 18 (27.69%) WebSphere
2 11 (16.92%) XML
3 6 (9.231%) .NET
3 6 (9.231%) Web Services
4 4 (6.154%) Middleware
4 4 (6.154%) BAPI
5 3 (4.615%) J2EE
6 2 (3.077%) ISPF
6 2 (3.077%) JSP
7 1 (1.538%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.538%) SOAP
7 1 (1.538%) HTML
7 1 (1.538%) JMS
7 1 (1.538%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.538%) Hibernate
7 1 (1.538%) MDX
7 1 (1.538%) Java EE
7 1 (1.538%) Ajax
7 1 (1.538%) Spring
7 1 (1.538%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 9 (13.85%) ESB
2 8 (12.31%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 6 (9.231%) WebSphere Application Server
4 5 (7.692%) WebSphere Process Server
5 4 (6.154%) CICS
6 3 (4.615%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.538%) Apache
7 1 (1.538%) MQSeries
7 1 (1.538%) SAS
7 1 (1.538%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.538%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (3.077%) MS Excel
1 2 (3.077%) MS Office
2 1 (1.538%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.538%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.692%) Internet
2 1 (1.538%) LDAP
2 1 (1.538%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (12.31%) Big Data
4 7 (10.77%) Hadoop
5 6 (9.231%) Apache Cassandra
5 6 (9.231%) HBase
6 4 (6.154%) DB2 UDB
6 4 (6.154%) RDBMS
7 3 (4.615%) OLAP
7 3 (4.615%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (4.615%) NoSQL
8 2 (3.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.077%) OLTP
8 2 (3.077%) MySQL
9 1 (1.538%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.538%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (1.538%) MS Access
9 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2005
9 1 (1.538%) Data Mart
9 1 (1.538%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Development Applications
1 2 (3.077%) Rational Performance Tester
1 2 (3.077%) Maven
1 2 (3.077%) LoadRunner
1 2 (3.077%) ClearCase
2 1 (1.538%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.538%) Ant
2 1 (1.538%) Eclipse
2 1 (1.538%) Subversion
2 1 (1.538%) Talend Open Studio
2 1 (1.538%) JBehave
2 1 (1.538%) Selenium
General
1 25 (38.46%) Banking
2 24 (36.92%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Investment Banking
4 6 (9.231%) Retail
5 2 (3.077%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.077%) Publishing
6 1 (1.538%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.538%) Advertising
6 1 (1.538%) Marketing
6 1 (1.538%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Developer
2 12 (18.46%) Architect
3 10 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 8 (12.31%) WebSphere Developer
5 7 (10.77%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.231%) Analyst
7 5 (7.692%) Database Developer
7 5 (7.692%) Consultant
8 4 (6.154%) DB2 Developer
9 3 (4.615%) Test Engineer
9 3 (4.615%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.615%) DBA
9 3 (4.615%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.077%) Performance Test Specialist
10 2 (3.077%) DB2 DBA
10 2 (3.077%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.077%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.077%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.077%) Administrator
10 2 (3.077%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Mainframe
2 8 (12.31%) SWIFT
3 5 (7.692%) Online Banking
3 5 (7.692%) DataPower
4 4 (6.154%) Computer Science
5 3 (4.615%) IBM Mainframe
6 2 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.077%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.538%) VSAM
7 1 (1.538%) SaaS
7 1 (1.538%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.54%) UNIX
2 10 (15.38%) zOS
3 7 (10.77%) Windows
4 4 (6.154%) Linux
4 4 (6.154%) AIX
5 1 (1.538%) HPUX
5 1 (1.538%) Solaris
5 1 (1.538%) OS/390
5 1 (1.538%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) ETL
2 8 (12.31%) Migration
2 8 (12.31%) E-Commerce
3 6 (9.231%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (9.231%) Data Management
3 6 (9.231%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (7.692%) Scrum
4 5 (7.692%) Data Architecture
5 4 (6.154%) Data Migration
5 4 (6.154%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (6.154%) Unit Testing
5 4 (6.154%) Validation
6 3 (4.615%) CRM
6 3 (4.615%) EAI
6 3 (4.615%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (4.615%) Configuration Management
6 3 (4.615%) Data Analysis
7 2 (3.077%) Performance Testing
7 2 (3.077%) Manual Testing
7 2 (3.077%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) SQL
2 14 (21.54%) Java
3 7 (10.77%) Perl
4 6 (9.231%) COBOL
5 3 (4.615%) C
5 3 (4.615%) VBA
5 3 (4.615%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.077%) JCL
6 2 (3.077%) C#
6 2 (3.077%) C++
6 2 (3.077%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.538%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.538%) Python
7 1 (1.538%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (1.538%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.231%) QA
2 1 (1.538%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.538%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (7.692%) Tivoli
2 4 (6.154%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (3.077%) Splunk
4 1 (1.538%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.538%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (36.92%) Oracle
2 18 (27.69%) IBM
3 12 (18.46%) Informatica
4 7 (10.77%) HP
4 7 (10.77%) Sybase
5 4 (6.154%) Teradata
6 3 (4.615%) Microsoft
6 3 (4.615%) Siebel
6 3 (4.615%) LogLogic
7 2 (3.077%) Unisys
7 2 (3.077%) Compuware
8 1 (1.538%) SAP
8 1 (1.538%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.538%) JBoss
8 1 (1.538%) CA
8 1 (1.538%) webMethods
8 1 (1.538%) Unica
8 1 (1.538%) Talend
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