The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 21 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 Hampshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 100 52 61
Rank change year-on-year
-48 +9
Contract jobs citing DB2 5 44 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.320% 2.764% 2.466%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.370% 13.54% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 14
Average daily rate £330 £350 £381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -8.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £280 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £466 £465 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.88 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.88% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
365 325 412
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 23.37% 20.41% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 148 183
Average daily rate £355 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £268 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 33
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.75 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.50% -25.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.18 £12.90 £31.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
DB2
South East

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Portsmouth -1 2 £330 +8.19%
Basingstoke -22 1 £500 +19.04%
Winchester - 1 £303 -
DB2
South East

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (64.29%) UNIX
2 8 (57.14%) Oracle
3 7 (50.00%) AIX
4 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 6 (42.86%) Windows
5 5 (35.71%) Data Guard
6 4 (28.57%) Finance
6 4 (28.57%) Perl
7 3 (21.43%) SQL
7 3 (21.43%) HACMP
7 3 (21.43%) Middleware
8 2 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
8 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
8 2 (14.29%) Tivoli
8 2 (14.29%) Java
8 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
8 2 (14.29%) SAP
8 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
8 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (7.143%) Korn
9 1 (7.143%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (7.143%) Change Management
9 1 (7.143%) Firewall
9 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
9 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 3 (21.43%) Middleware
2 1 (7.143%) SAP Basis
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.143%) WF
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (7.143%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Firewall
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (7.143%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.143%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) TestDirector
1 1 (7.143%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Database Architect
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 2 (14.29%) DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) DB2 DBA
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Mainframe Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) DB2 Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Administrator
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Database Architect
3 1 (7.143%) Database Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Senior Database Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Oracle Database Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) SAP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) HACMP
2 2 (14.29%) Mainframe
3 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) UNIX
2 7 (50.00%) AIX
3 6 (42.86%) Windows
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) zOS
4 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.143%) Change Management
1 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Perl
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.143%) Korn
System Software
1 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Data Guard
2 2 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Tivoli
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Configuration Manager
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 1 (7.143%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (7.143%) KANA
3 1 (7.143%) IBM
3 1 (7.143%) Intel