The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 61 51 32
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -19
Contract jobs citing DB2 2 17 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.311% 1.756% 4.032%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.653% 8.543% 19.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
Average daily rate - £400 £311
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +28.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
121 199 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.82% 20.56% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 85 78
Average daily rate £338 £350 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 8
Average hourly rate £22.75 £31.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.34% -9.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
DB2
East of England

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Watford -1 2 - -
DB2
East of England

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 10 (90.91%) UNIX
2 9 (81.82%) E-Commerce
2 9 (81.82%) MQSeries
2 9 (81.82%) IBM
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) J2EE
2 9 (81.82%) XML
2 9 (81.82%) Finance
2 9 (81.82%) Retail
2 9 (81.82%) WebSphere
3 7 (63.64%) Linux
4 6 (54.55%) UML
4 6 (54.55%) OO
4 6 (54.55%) RAD
4 6 (54.55%) HPUX
4 6 (54.55%) Solaris
4 6 (54.55%) JMS
4 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
4 6 (54.55%) Eclipse
4 6 (54.55%) RDBMS
4 6 (54.55%) XSLT
4 6 (54.55%) EJB
4 6 (54.55%) JDBC
4 6 (54.55%) JSP
4 6 (54.55%) Servlets
4 6 (54.55%) Struts
4 6 (54.55%) Perl

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 9 (81.82%) HTML
1 9 (81.82%) J2EE
1 9 (81.82%) XML
1 9 (81.82%) WebSphere
2 6 (54.55%) JSTL
2 6 (54.55%) XMLBeans
2 6 (54.55%) Ajax
2 6 (54.55%) XSLT
2 6 (54.55%) XHTML
2 6 (54.55%) JMS
2 6 (54.55%) EJB
2 6 (54.55%) JDBC
2 6 (54.55%) JSP
2 6 (54.55%) Servlets
2 6 (54.55%) Struts
3 3 (27.27%) Flash
4 1 (9.091%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 9 (81.82%) MQSeries
2 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Tridion
2 1 (9.091%) SAP BPC
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) RDBMS
2 3 (27.27%) DbVisualizer
3 1 (9.091%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Ant
1 6 (54.55%) JUnit
1 6 (54.55%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 6 (54.55%) Eclipse
1 6 (54.55%) Log4j
1 6 (54.55%) Subversion
2 3 (27.27%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (27.27%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
1 9 (81.82%) Retail
2 5 (45.45%) Games
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java Developer
2 6 (54.55%) J2EE Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Tester
4 1 (9.091%) DB2 Developer
4 1 (9.091%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) DB2 DBA
4 1 (9.091%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) UNIX
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 6 (54.55%) HPUX
3 6 (54.55%) Solaris
4 1 (9.091%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) E-Commerce
2 6 (54.55%) Content Management
2 6 (54.55%) UML
2 6 (54.55%) OO
2 6 (54.55%) RAD
3 3 (27.27%) Automated Testing
3 3 (27.27%) System Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Migration
4 1 (9.091%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
1 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) XPath
2 6 (54.55%) Bash shell
2 6 (54.55%) Perl
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) IBM
2 6 (54.55%) Interwoven
2 6 (54.55%) ATG
2 6 (54.55%) Blue Martini
2 6 (54.55%) Elastic Path
3 3 (27.27%) HP
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
4 1 (9.091%) SAP