Hampshire DB2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM DB2 skills within the Hampshire 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 7 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 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 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	74
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	14	53
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.056 %
As % of the category below	3.900 %	9.282 %
Daily rates quoted	6	16
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£319
Average daily rate	£362	£324
% change on same period last year	+11.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£372	£376
% change on same period last year	-0.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.33	£40.00
Average hourly rate	£25.50	£42.50
% change on same period last year	-40.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£38.55	£37.53
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	359	571
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.473 %	0.605 %
Daily rates quoted	53	124
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£317
Average daily rate	£356	£337
% change on same period last year	+5.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£354
% change on same period last year	-0.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	71	103
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.89	£29.09
Average hourly rate	£34.72	£31.13
% change on same period last year	+11.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.55	£33.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.54	£30.93
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
DB2 South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DB2 across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Basingstoke	+8	8	£297	-6.11 %
Portsmouth	-2	2	-	-

DB2 South East

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 27 (38.57 %) Unix 2 25 (35.71 %) WebSphere 3 20 (28.57 %) Shell Script 4 18 (25.71 %) Linux 4 18 (25.71 %) SQL 4 18 (25.71 %) Finance 4 18 (25.71 %) Security Cleared 5 17 (24.29 %) AIX 5 17 (24.29 %) Mainframe 6 16 (22.86 %) SC Cleared 7 15 (21.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 8 14 (20.00 %) JCL 8 14 (20.00 %) Tivoli 8 14 (20.00 %) ISPF 9 13 (18.57 %) SUSE

9 13 (18.57 %) Java 10 12 (17.14 %) Oracle 11 11 (15.71 %) Windows 11 11 (15.71 %) REXX 12 10 (14.29 %) WebSphere Message Broker 12 10 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 9 (12.86 %) Billing 13 9 (12.86 %) Migration 13 9 (12.86 %) ISEB 13 9 (12.86 %) WebSphere MQ 13 9 (12.86 %) SAP 14 8 (11.43 %) SQL Server 15 7 (10.00 %) Telecoms 15 7 (10.00 %) OO 15 7 (10.00 %) MQSeries

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, 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 25 (35.71 %) WebSphere 2 14 (20.00 %) ISPF 3 6 (8.571 %) XML 4 4 (5.714 %) WebServices 5 3 (4.286 %) Middleware 6 2 (2.857 %) Hibernate 6 2 (2.857 %) J2EE 6 2 (2.857 %) JSP 7 1 (1.429 %) HTML 7 1 (1.429 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.429 %) Swing 7 1 (1.429 %) J2SE 7 1 (1.429 %) Spring 7 1 (1.429 %) AJAX 7 1 (1.429 %) JSTL	Application Platforms 1 15 (21.43 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 10 (14.29 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 9 (12.86 %) WebSphere MQ 4 7 (10.00 %) MQSeries 4 7 (10.00 %) CICS 5 2 (2.857 %) Apache 6 1 (1.429 %) Tomcat 6 1 (1.429 %) WebLogic
Communications & Networking 1 3 (4.286 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (11.43 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.286 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.429 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (1.429 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.429 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 2 (2.857 %) ClearCase 1 2 (2.857 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (1.429 %) JMeter 2 1 (1.429 %) Eclipse 2 1 (1.429 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.429 %) Ant	General 1 18 (25.71 %) Finance 2 9 (12.86 %) Billing 3 7 (10.00 %) Telecoms 4 6 (8.571 %) Banking 5 5 (7.143 %) Government 6 4 (5.714 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.429 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 21 (30.00 %) Developer 1 21 (30.00 %) Analyst 2 10 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 8 (11.43 %) Applications Developer 4 7 (10.00 %) Business Analyst 4 7 (10.00 %) Test Analyst 4 7 (10.00 %) DBA 5 5 (7.143 %) Linux Administrator 6 4 (5.714 %) Senior Analyst 6 4 (5.714 %) Tester 7 3 (4.286 %) Java Developer 7 3 (4.286 %) Senior Test Analyst 7 3 (4.286 %) Development DBA 8 2 (2.857 %) Mainframe Tester 8 2 (2.857 %) COBOL Analyst 8 2 (2.857 %) WebSphere Developer 8 2 (2.857 %) UNIX Administrator 8 2 (2.857 %) Technical Specialist 8 2 (2.857 %) Technical Tester 8 2 (2.857 %) Operations Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 17 (24.29 %) Mainframe 2 3 (4.286 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (2.857 %) HACMP 4 1 (1.429 %) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems 1 27 (38.57 %) Unix 2 18 (25.71 %) Linux 3 17 (24.29 %) AIX 4 13 (18.57 %) SUSE 5 11 (15.71 %) Windows 6 6 (8.571 %) Windows NT 7 5 (7.143 %) zOS 8 3 (4.286 %) MVS 9 1 (1.429 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (25.71 %) Security Cleared 2 16 (22.86 %) SC Cleared 3 10 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 9 (12.86 %) Migration 5 7 (10.00 %) OO 5 7 (10.00 %) SOA 6 5 (7.143 %) Agile Software Development 6 5 (7.143 %) Service Delivery 7 4 (5.714 %) Project Management 8 2 (2.857 %) Disaster Recovery 8 2 (2.857 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (2.857 %) BC Cleared 9 1 (1.429 %) Performance Management 9 1 (1.429 %) ITIL 9 1 (1.429 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 20 (28.57 %) Shell Script 2 18 (25.71 %) SQL 3 14 (20.00 %) JCL 4 13 (18.57 %) Java 5 11 (15.71 %) REXX 6 4 (5.714 %) C 6 4 (5.714 %) C++ 7 3 (4.286 %) COBOL 8 1 (1.429 %) DHTML 8 1 (1.429 %) JavaScript 8 1 (1.429 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 9 (12.86 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.429 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (7.143 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.429 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management 1 14 (20.00 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.429 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (1.429 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.429 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 12 (17.14 %) Oracle 2 9 (12.86 %) SAP 3 5 (7.143 %) VERITAS 3 5 (7.143 %) IBM 4 1 (1.429 %) HP 4 1 (1.429 %) BEA 4 1 (1.429 %) BMC 4 1 (1.429 %) CA 4 1 (1.429 %) Nokia 4 1 (1.429 %) Red Hat 4 1 (1.429 %) ESRI 4 1 (1.429 %) Cisco