East of England DB2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM DB2 skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM DB2
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chessington City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lytham St Annes Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	102
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	47	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.062 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	6.648 %	4.682 %
Daily rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£310
Average daily rate	£370	£317
% change on same period last year	+16.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£371	£375
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£29.33
Average hourly rate	-	£29.33
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£29.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.55	£36.62
% change on same period last year	+5.25 %
Database & Business Intelligence East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	707	897
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.932 %	0.951 %
Daily rates quoted	188	260
Average minimum daily rate	£323	£337
Average daily rate	£344	£359
% change on same period last year	-4.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	75	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.32	£30.14
Average hourly rate	£33.05	£31.91
% change on same period last year	+3.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£33.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
DB2 England

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 East of England 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 East of England region.

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing DB2 within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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
Hertfordshire	+17	32	£375	+2.06 %
East Anglia	-	7	£265	-
Norfolk	-	4	£425	-
Cambridgeshire	-	3	£375	-
Bedfordshire	-15	1	-	-

DB2 England

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 79 (65.83 %) SQL 2 71 (59.17 %) J2EE 3 67 (55.83 %) WebSphere 4 65 (54.17 %) Java 5 64 (53.33 %) IBM 6 62 (51.67 %) Unix 7 46 (38.33 %) Linux 7 46 (38.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 44 (36.67 %) Oracle 9 42 (35.00 %) Spring 10 41 (34.17 %) Hibernate 11 36 (30.00 %) HPUX 11 36 (30.00 %) Solaris 11 36 (30.00 %) Eclipse 12 32 (26.67 %) JUnit

13 30 (25.00 %) AIX 14 28 (23.33 %) UML 15 22 (18.33 %) Finance 15 22 (18.33 %) SOA 16 21 (17.50 %) IntelliJ 16 21 (17.50 %) JDBC 16 21 (17.50 %) HTML 16 21 (17.50 %) JavaScript 17 20 (16.67 %) OO 17 20 (16.67 %) Windows 17 20 (16.67 %) Continuous Integration 18 19 (15.83 %) EJB 18 19 (15.83 %) Ant 19 17 (14.17 %) Servlets 19 17 (14.17 %) Perl

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 71 (59.17 %) J2EE 2 67 (55.83 %) WebSphere 3 42 (35.00 %) Spring 4 41 (34.17 %) Hibernate 5 21 (17.50 %) HTML 5 21 (17.50 %) JDBC 6 19 (15.83 %) EJB 7 17 (14.17 %) Servlets 8 13 (10.83 %) XML 9 12 (10.00 %) XHTML 9 12 (10.00 %) CSS 10 11 (9.167 %) JSP 10 11 (9.167 %) Struts 11 9 (7.500 %) JMS 12 8 (6.667 %) JSF 13 7 (5.833 %) Middleware 13 7 (5.833 %) NetBeans 13 7 (5.833 %) ASP 14 5 (4.167 %) .NET 15 4 (3.333 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 46 (38.33 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 15 (12.50 %) JBoss 3 13 (10.83 %) MQSeries 4 8 (6.667 %) WebLogic 5 6 (5.000 %) Tomcat 5 6 (5.000 %) Mule 6 4 (3.333 %) IIS 6 4 (3.333 %) WebSphere MQ 7 3 (2.500 %) IBM HTTP Server 7 3 (2.500 %) CICS 8 1 (0.833 %) Oracle Application Server 8 1 (0.833 %) Tuxedo
Applications 1 1 (0.833 %) MS Project 1 1 (0.833 %) MS Office 1 1 (0.833 %) MS Excel 1 1 (0.833 %) MS Visio 1 1 (0.833 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 4 (3.333 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 9 (7.500 %) Cisco IOS 2 5 (4.167 %) SAN 2 5 (4.167 %) Internet 3 3 (2.500 %) HTTP 4 1 (0.833 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (0.833 %) DNS 4 1 (0.833 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (14.17 %) SQL Server 2 11 (9.167 %) OLTP 3 9 (7.500 %) MS Access 3 9 (7.500 %) PostgreSQL 3 9 (7.500 %) MySQL 4 2 (1.667 %) DB2 UDB 4 2 (1.667 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 36 (30.00 %) Eclipse 2 32 (26.67 %) JUnit 3 21 (17.50 %) IntelliJ 4 19 (15.83 %) Ant 5 16 (13.33 %) CruiseControl 5 16 (13.33 %) Atlassian Bamboo 6 8 (6.667 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 7 (5.833 %) JBuilder 7 7 (5.833 %) JDeveloper 8 2 (1.667 %) Log4j 9 1 (0.833 %) TestDirector 9 1 (0.833 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.833 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (0.833 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.833 %) ClearCase	General 1 22 (18.33 %) Finance 2 10 (8.333 %) Insurance 3 9 (7.500 %) Telecoms 4 8 (6.667 %) Games 5 2 (1.667 %) Banking 5 2 (1.667 %) Retail 5 2 (1.667 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.667 %) Online Games 6 1 (0.833 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (0.833 %) Chemicals 6 1 (0.833 %) Construction 6 1 (0.833 %) Education
Job Titles 1 42 (35.00 %) Developer 2 36 (30.00 %) Java Developer 3 32 (26.67 %) DBA 4 29 (24.17 %) DB2 DBA 5 23 (19.17 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 20 (16.67 %) J2EE Developer 7 19 (15.83 %) Administrator 8 15 (12.50 %) Senior Developer 9 12 (10.00 %) Consultant 9 12 (10.00 %) Senior J2EE Developer 10 11 (9.167 %) Senior Java Developer 11 10 (8.333 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 12 9 (7.500 %) Architect 13 6 (5.000 %) Technical Architect 13 6 (5.000 %) Support Specialist 13 6 (5.000 %) J2EE Architect 14 5 (4.167 %) Applications Support Specialist 14 5 (4.167 %) Applications Specialist 14 5 (4.167 %) Applications Support 14 5 (4.167 %) Java Architect	Miscellaneous 1 8 (6.667 %) Mainframe 2 5 (4.167 %) PMI 3 3 (2.500 %) AS400 4 2 (1.667 %) IBM Mainframe 5 1 (0.833 %) EFT 5 1 (0.833 %) Web 2.0 5 1 (0.833 %) Polish Language
Operating Systems 1 62 (51.67 %) Unix 2 46 (38.33 %) Linux 3 36 (30.00 %) HPUX 3 36 (30.00 %) Solaris 4 30 (25.00 %) AIX 5 20 (16.67 %) Windows 6 11 (9.167 %) Windows NT 7 4 (3.333 %) i5/OS 8 3 (2.500 %) SUSE 9 2 (1.667 %) zOS 9 2 (1.667 %) MVS 10 1 (0.833 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (23.33 %) UML 2 22 (18.33 %) SOA 3 20 (16.67 %) OO 3 20 (16.67 %) Continuous Integration 4 16 (13.33 %) CRM 5 15 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 6 11 (9.167 %) Data Management 7 8 (6.667 %) MVC 8 7 (5.833 %) Security Cleared 9 6 (5.000 %) SC Cleared 9 6 (5.000 %) Agile Software Development 9 6 (5.000 %) TDD 10 5 (4.167 %) ERP 10 5 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 11 4 (3.333 %) Security Testing 12 3 (2.500 %) Migration 12 3 (2.500 %) RAD 12 3 (2.500 %) Project Management 13 2 (1.667 %) Service Delivery 13 2 (1.667 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 79 (65.83 %) SQL 2 65 (54.17 %) Java 3 21 (17.50 %) JavaScript 4 17 (14.17 %) Perl 5 9 (7.500 %) PHP 5 9 (7.500 %) DHTML 5 9 (7.500 %) Python 6 7 (5.833 %) C# 6 7 (5.833 %) C++ 7 6 (5.000 %) C 7 6 (5.000 %) Assembly Language 7 6 (5.000 %) Tcl 7 6 (5.000 %) Shell Script 7 6 (5.000 %) Ruby 8 4 (3.333 %) COBOL 9 2 (1.667 %) PL/SQL 10 1 (0.833 %) XPath 10 1 (0.833 %) VB	Qualifications 1 3 (2.500 %) IBM Certification 2 2 (1.667 %) Degree 2 2 (1.667 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (0.833 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (1.667 %) SLA	System Software 1 9 (7.500 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (1.667 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (0.833 %) OMEGAMON	Vendors 1 64 (53.33 %) IBM 2 44 (36.67 %) Oracle 3 11 (9.167 %) Microsoft 4 10 (8.333 %) HP 5 9 (7.500 %) Sybase 5 9 (7.500 %) Cisco 5 9 (7.500 %) Intel 5 9 (7.500 %) Alcatel 5 9 (7.500 %) Siemens 6 7 (5.833 %) Red Hat 6 7 (5.833 %) SAP 7 5 (4.167 %) EMC 8 4 (3.333 %) ADIC 8 4 (3.333 %) Siebel 9 3 (2.500 %) Sun 9 3 (2.500 %) BEA 9 3 (2.500 %) VERITAS 10 1 (0.833 %) Remedy 10 1 (0.833 %) Brocade 10 1 (0.833 %) Tridion