England DataStage Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM WebSphere DataStage (Data Stage) skills within the England 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 DataStage over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM WebSphere DataStage (Data Stage)
Location Berkshire Bootle Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Hampshire High Wycombe Leeds Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Midlands North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland South East South West Staines Surrey Swindon UK West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	444	474
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching contract IT job ads	115	162
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.153 %	0.164 %
As % of the category below	0.863 %	0.851 %
Daily rates quoted	41	46
Average minimum daily rate	£383	£364
Average daily rate	£410	£379
% change on same period last year	+8.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£437	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£408	£365
% change on same period last year	+11.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£50.00	-
Average hourly rate	£55.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£60.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£55.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Database & Business Intelligence England
Matching contract IT job ads	13330	19036
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	17.77 %	19.26 %
Daily rates quoted	4311	5676
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£375
Average daily rate	£390	£400
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£426
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	949	1222
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.37	£28.79
Average hourly rate	£31.68	£31.03
% change on same period last year	+2.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.99	£33.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
DataStage UK

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.

DataStage
Demand Trend

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

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend

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

DataStage
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataStage across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

DataStage
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DataStage
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataStage across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

DataStage
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the England region over the 3 months to 25 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
South East	+57	31	£458	+1.68 %
London	+58	24	£418	+3.65 %
Midlands	+24	18	£375	-21.05 %
East Midlands	+16	14	£354	-
Yorkshire	-	10	£439	-
South West	-36	8	£454	+39.98 %
North West	-14	4	£188	-49.25 %
East of England	+6	1	-	-

DataStage UK

DataStage
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DataStage 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 DataStage.

1 98 (44.95 %) ETL 2 77 (35.32 %) Oracle 3 74 (33.94 %) Datawarehouse 4 60 (27.52 %) IBM 5 54 (24.77 %) Data Modelling 6 50 (22.94 %) BusinessObjects 6 50 (22.94 %) Business Objects 7 48 (22.02 %) Business Intelligence 8 46 (21.10 %) SQL 9 31 (14.22 %) Finance 10 26 (11.93 %) UNIX 10 26 (11.93 %) Cognos 11 25 (11.47 %) Migration 11 25 (11.47 %) Data Management 12 23 (10.55 %) Ascential

13 21 (9.633 %) Informatica 14 20 (9.174 %) Oracle 10g 14 20 (9.174 %) Data Migration 15 17 (7.798 %) WebSphere 15 17 (7.798 %) Oracle Reports 15 17 (7.798 %) DB2 16 16 (7.339 %) Crystal Reports 16 16 (7.339 %) ODBC 16 16 (7.339 %) XML 17 14 (6.422 %) Mainframe 17 14 (6.422 %) Java 18 13 (5.963 %) PL/SQL 18 13 (5.963 %) SQL Server 18 13 (5.963 %) QualityStage 19 12 (5.505 %) Telecoms

DataStage
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DataStage 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 DataStage. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (7.798 %) WebSphere 2 16 (7.339 %) XML 2 16 (7.339 %) ODBC 3 5 (2.294 %) Middleware 4 1 (0.459 %) OLE 4 1 (0.459 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.459 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.459 %) WSE 4 1 (0.459 %) XML Schema 4 1 (0.459 %) XSD 4 1 (0.459 %) HTML 4 1 (0.459 %) .NET 4 1 (0.459 %) J2EE 4 1 (0.459 %) JSP	Application Platforms 1 3 (1.376 %) SAS 2 2 (0.917 %) ESB 2 2 (0.917 %) IIS 3 1 (0.459 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 1 (0.459 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (0.459 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 9 (4.128 %) Spreadsheet 2 1 (0.459 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.459 %) MS Visio 2 1 (0.459 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 5 (2.294 %) ProfileStage 2 2 (0.917 %) SAP IS-U 3 1 (0.459 %) Cognos Planning 3 1 (0.459 %) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.459 %) LAN 1 1 (0.459 %) WAN 1 1 (0.459 %) FTP 1 1 (0.459 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 98 (44.95 %) ETL 2 74 (33.94 %) Datawarehouse 3 50 (22.94 %) BusinessObjects 4 20 (9.174 %) Oracle 10g 5 17 (7.798 %) DB2 5 17 (7.798 %) Oracle Reports 6 16 (7.339 %) Crystal Reports 7 13 (5.963 %) SQL Server 7 13 (5.963 %) QualityStage 8 12 (5.505 %) TOAD 9 10 (4.587 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 9 (4.128 %) BODI 10 9 (4.128 %) BusinessObjects XI 11 7 (3.211 %) Oracle 9i 12 6 (2.752 %) MS Access 13 5 (2.294 %) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 14 4 (1.835 %) Siebel EIM 15 3 (1.376 %) Oracle OWB 15 3 (1.376 %) Data Cleansing 15 3 (1.376 %) Data Mart
Development Applications 1 9 (4.128 %) ERwin 2 1 (0.459 %) Rational Rose	General 1 31 (14.22 %) Finance 2 12 (5.505 %) Insurance 2 12 (5.505 %) Telecoms 3 9 (4.128 %) Pharmaceutical 4 8 (3.670 %) Banking 5 5 (2.294 %) Legal 5 5 (2.294 %) Pensions 6 4 (1.835 %) Government 7 3 (1.376 %) Back Office 8 2 (0.917 %) Financial Institution 8 2 (0.917 %) Front Office 8 2 (0.917 %) Local Government 9 1 (0.459 %) Marketing 9 1 (0.459 %) Games 9 1 (0.459 %) Retail 9 1 (0.459 %) Electronics 9 1 (0.459 %) Health 9 1 (0.459 %) Chemicals
Job Titles 1 96 (44.04 %) Developer 2 41 (18.81 %) DataStage Developer 3 33 (15.14 %) Consultant 4 29 (13.30 %) ETL Developer 5 25 (11.47 %) Analyst 6 17 (7.798 %) DataStage Consultant 7 15 (6.881 %) Architect 8 14 (6.422 %) Business Objects Developer 9 11 (5.046 %) Applications Support 10 10 (4.587 %) Technical Architect 11 9 (4.128 %) Business Developer 11 9 (4.128 %) Datawarehouse Architect 12 8 (3.670 %) Business Analyst 12 8 (3.670 %) Business Intelligence Developer 13 7 (3.211 %) Project Manager 13 7 (3.211 %) Administrator 13 7 (3.211 %) Java Developer 13 7 (3.211 %) Oracle Developer 14 6 (2.752 %) Data Manager 14 6 (2.752 %) ETL Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 14 (6.422 %) Mainframe 2 4 (1.835 %) Management Information System 2 4 (1.835 %) Client/Server 3 2 (0.917 %) Chemistry 3 2 (0.917 %) Data Conversion 3 2 (0.917 %) Data Extraction 3 2 (0.917 %) Data Integration 4 1 (0.459 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 26 (11.93 %) UNIX 2 10 (4.587 %) Windows 3 9 (4.128 %) AIX 3 9 (4.128 %) Linux 4 6 (2.752 %) zOS 4 6 (2.752 %) MVS 5 1 (0.459 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.459 %) HPUX 5 1 (0.459 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 54 (24.77 %) Data Modelling 2 48 (22.02 %) Business Intelligence 3 25 (11.47 %) Migration 3 25 (11.47 %) Data Management 4 20 (9.174 %) Data Migration 5 9 (4.128 %) Data Architecture 6 7 (3.211 %) Asset Management 6 7 (3.211 %) Data Protection 6 7 (3.211 %) Release Management 6 7 (3.211 %) Data Analysis 6 7 (3.211 %) Systems Analysis 7 6 (2.752 %) Business Analysis 7 6 (2.752 %) RAD 7 6 (2.752 %) Dimensional Modelling 8 5 (2.294 %) Workflow 8 5 (2.294 %) Requirements Management 9 4 (1.835 %) Enterprise Architecture 10 3 (1.376 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (1.376 %) UML 10 3 (1.376 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 46 (21.10 %) SQL 2 14 (6.422 %) Java 3 13 (5.963 %) PL/SQL 4 8 (3.670 %) Shell Script 5 6 (2.752 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (0.917 %) C 7 1 (0.459 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.459 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (0.459 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (2.294 %) QA	Systems Management 1 3 (1.376 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 77 (35.32 %) Oracle 2 60 (27.52 %) IBM 3 50 (22.94 %) Business Objects 4 26 (11.93 %) Cognos 5 23 (10.55 %) Ascential 6 21 (9.633 %) Informatica 7 11 (5.046 %) Kalido 8 8 (3.670 %) Ab Initio 9 6 (2.752 %) Netezza 9 6 (2.752 %) SAP 10 5 (2.294 %) Siebel 11 4 (1.835 %) Sybase 12 3 (1.376 %) Red Hat 12 3 (1.376 %) Teradata 13 2 (0.917 %) Mercator 13 2 (0.917 %) Sagent 13 2 (0.917 %) Hyperion 14 1 (0.459 %) JD Edwards 14 1 (0.459 %) PeopleSoft 14 1 (0.459 %) Microsoft