The first table below looks at the demand for the DB2 DBA role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 DBA in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
DB2 Database Administrator
Rank 386 372 420
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +48
Contract jobs requiring a DB2 DBA 3 33 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.122% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.132% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 21 2
Average daily rate £525 £450 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +8.43%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - £345
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20317 24960 28380
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.22% 92.51% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13701 16102 18232
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 621 671
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
DB2 DBA
England

DB2 DBA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DB2 DBA across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London DB2 DBA Jobs Demand Trend

DB2 DBA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DB2 DBA across the London region.

London DB2 DBA Daily Rate Trend

DB2 DBA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited DB2 DBA in their job title 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 with DB2 DBA in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DB2
2 8 (88.89%) UNIX
3 6 (66.67%) AIX
4 5 (55.56%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 3 (33.33%) OLTP
5 3 (33.33%) C
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) IBM
5 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
5 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (33.33%) HACMP
5 3 (33.33%) Korn
5 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
5 3 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
6 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
6 2 (22.22%) DB2 UDB
6 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) C++
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) Oracle
6 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
6 2 (22.22%) LDAP
7 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
7 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
7 1 (11.11%) SAP
7 1 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (11.11%) Replication

DB2 DBA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited DB2 DBA in their job title 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 with DB2 DBA in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
2 1 (11.11%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) DB2
2 3 (33.33%) OLTP
2 3 (33.33%) IBM InfoSphere
3 2 (22.22%) DB2 UDB
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) VLDB
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle 11g
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Back Office
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) HACMP
2 1 (11.11%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
2 6 (66.67%) AIX
3 5 (55.56%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) E-Commerce
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C
1 3 (33.33%) Korn
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
2 2 (22.22%) C++
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
1 3 (33.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Sun