The first table below looks at the demand for Informix skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Informix over the 3 months to 20 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 England 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Informix
Rank 488 532 549
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +17
Contract jobs citing Informix 15 34 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.064% 0.038%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.173% 0.333% 0.186%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 8
Average daily rate £325 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £320 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £415 £633
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
- -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
8685 10198 11308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 20.82% 19.10% 20.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5322 5996 6405
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £338
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 233 376
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -14.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £13.10 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
Informix
UK

Informix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Informix Jobs Demand Trend

Informix
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Informix Daily Rate Trend

Informix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Informix across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England Informix Daily Rate Histogram

Informix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Informix Hourly Rate Trend

Informix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informix within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
North West +19 7 £325 +1.56%
London +9 6 £288 -28.12%
South West - 2 £400 -
Informix
UK

Informix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Informix 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 Informix.

1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 10 (45.45%) Linux
3 7 (31.82%) Solaris
3 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
3 7 (31.82%) MySQL
3 7 (31.82%) Perl
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
5 5 (22.73%) SAN
5 5 (22.73%) UNIX
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 5 (22.73%) C
5 5 (22.73%) Finance
6 4 (18.18%) DB2
6 4 (18.18%) Uniface
7 3 (13.64%) Veritas
7 3 (13.64%) RHCE
7 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
7 3 (13.64%) SSL
7 3 (13.64%) Cisco
7 3 (13.64%) IBM
7 3 (13.64%) EMC
7 3 (13.64%) Apache
7 3 (13.64%) Java
7 3 (13.64%) Subversion
7 3 (13.64%) SCSA
7 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (13.64%) Open Source

Informix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Informix 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 Informix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.091%) .NET
2 1 (4.545%) J2EE
2 1 (4.545%) ASP
2 1 (4.545%) EJB
2 1 (4.545%) JSP
2 1 (4.545%) XML
2 1 (4.545%) XSD
2 1 (4.545%) WSDL
2 1 (4.545%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) Apache
2 2 (9.091%) MTS
2 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.545%) CICS
3 1 (4.545%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.545%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) SAN
2 3 (13.64%) SSL
3 2 (9.091%) Firewall
4 1 (4.545%) Wireless
4 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) MySQL
1 7 (31.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) DB2
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (4.545%) DataStage
4 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Subversion
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.091%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (22.73%) Administrator
3 4 (18.18%) C Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Uniface Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Architect
5 2 (9.091%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Database Developer
6 1 (4.545%) SQL Developer
6 1 (4.545%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Consultant
6 1 (4.545%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.545%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Client/Server
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
1 3 (13.64%) Open Source
2 2 (9.091%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Replication
3 1 (4.545%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 7 (31.82%) Solaris
3 6 (27.27%) Windows
4 5 (22.73%) UNIX
5 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (9.091%) Windows XP
6 2 (9.091%) AIX
6 2 (9.091%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) ITIL
2 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
2 3 (13.64%) Change Management
2 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
3 2 (9.091%) Migration
3 2 (9.091%) Project Management
3 2 (9.091%) Process Management
3 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (9.091%) Business Analysis
3 2 (9.091%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (9.091%) Resource Management
3 2 (9.091%) ERP
4 1 (4.545%) Data Modelling
4 1 (4.545%) SOA
4 1 (4.545%) ETL
4 1 (4.545%) UML
4 1 (4.545%) DSDM
4 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.545%) Scrum
4 1 (4.545%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Perl
2 6 (27.27%) SQL
3 5 (22.73%) C
4 4 (18.18%) Uniface
5 3 (13.64%) Java
6 2 (9.091%) PHP
7 1 (4.545%) VBA
7 1 (4.545%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) RHCE
1 3 (13.64%) SCSA
2 2 (9.091%) Degree
2 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (4.545%) MCP
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.545%) OCA
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
3 3 (13.64%) Veritas
3 3 (13.64%) Cisco
3 3 (13.64%) IBM
3 3 (13.64%) EMC
4 2 (9.091%) Sun
4 2 (9.091%) HP
4 2 (9.091%) Sybase
4 2 (9.091%) SAP
4 2 (9.091%) GL TRADE
4 2 (9.091%) Baan
4 2 (9.091%) JD Edwards
4 2 (9.091%) NYFIX
5 1 (4.545%) ATG
5 1 (4.545%) Teradata
5 1 (4.545%) Fredhopper
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.545%) Informatica
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