The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 71 61 50
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -11
Contract jobs citing DB2 1 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.132% 0.562% 0.821%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.481% 2.347% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
Average daily rate £300 £215 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.53% -28.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.88 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.88% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
208 213 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 27.48% 23.93% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 142 65
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
Average hourly rate £13.25 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.05% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
DB2
West Yorkshire

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 7 (87.50%) IBM
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
1 7 (87.50%) UNIX
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (75.00%) J2EE
2 6 (75.00%) Solaris
2 6 (75.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 6 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 5 (62.50%) Retail
3 5 (62.50%) IIS
3 5 (62.50%) MS Office
4 4 (50.00%) AIX
4 4 (50.00%) JDBC
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle
4 4 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) Perl
4 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
4 4 (50.00%) MQSeries
4 4 (50.00%) FTP
4 4 (50.00%) HTTP
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Middleware
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) Games
4 4 (50.00%) Bash shell
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Apache
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 6 (75.00%) J2EE
1 6 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 4 (50.00%) JDBC
2 4 (50.00%) Middleware
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) JSP
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 6 (75.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 5 (62.50%) IIS
3 4 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 4 (50.00%) MQSeries
4 3 (37.50%) Apache
5 1 (12.50%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) FTP
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Retail
2 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Analyst
2 7 (87.50%) Support Analyst
3 4 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
3 4 (50.00%) Operations Support Analyst
4 3 (37.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 3 (37.50%) Applications Support
5 2 (25.00%) Web Analyst
5 2 (25.00%) Web Support Analyst
6 1 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (12.50%) Programmer
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
1 7 (87.50%) UNIX
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Solaris
3 4 (50.00%) AIX
4 1 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
2 4 (50.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) JCL
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) COBOL
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) IBM
2 4 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft