London DB2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM DB2 skills within the London region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IBM DB2
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds London Lytham St Annes Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	241	234
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	170	295
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.224 %	0.294 %
As % of the category below	2.557 %	2.942 %
Daily rates quoted	57	106
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£403
Average daily rate	£407	£436
% change on same period last year	-6.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£426	£468
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£373
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£32.19	£29.13
% change on same period last year	+10.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.38	£30.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.79	£37.10
% change on same period last year	+15.33 %
Database & Business Intelligence London
Matching contract IT job ads	6648	10027
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	8.773 %	9.986 %
Daily rates quoted	2694	3706
Average minimum daily rate	£382	£396
Average daily rate	£408	£424
% change on same period last year	-3.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£434	£451
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	308	462
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.80	£26.67
Average hourly rate	£28.83	£28.88
% change on same period last year	-0.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.85	£31.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
DB2 England

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 London 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 London region.

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DB2
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

DB2
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the London region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
City of London	-25	26	£363	-27.58 %
Croydon	+8	5	-	-
Docklands, London	+21	4	-	-
Brentford	+3	3	£475	-
Canary Wharf	+8	2	£425	-

DB2 England

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 144 (46.01 %) Oracle 2 112 (35.78 %) SQL 3 101 (32.27 %) UNIX 4 88 (28.12 %) Java 5 72 (23.00 %) Finance 6 71 (22.68 %) IBM 7 65 (20.77 %) Banking 8 63 (20.13 %) WebSphere 8 63 (20.13 %) SQL Server 9 53 (16.93 %) Sybase 10 47 (15.02 %) J2EE 11 46 (14.70 %) Mainframe 12 36 (11.50 %) Windows 12 36 (11.50 %) Linux 13 35 (11.18 %) WebSphere Application Server

14 34 (10.86 %) UML 14 34 (10.86 %) Derivative 15 32 (10.22 %) AIX 15 32 (10.22 %) DB2 UDB 16 29 (9.265 %) CICS 17 28 (8.946 %) XML 18 26 (8.307 %) EJB 19 25 (7.987 %) Tomcat 19 25 (7.987 %) Datawarehouse 19 25 (7.987 %) Migration 20 24 (7.668 %) C++ 21 23 (7.348 %) JDBC 22 22 (7.029 %) COBOL 22 22 (7.029 %) Data Modelling 22 22 (7.029 %) Investment Banking

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 63 (20.13 %) WebSphere 2 47 (15.02 %) J2EE 3 28 (8.946 %) XML 4 26 (8.307 %) EJB 5 23 (7.348 %) JDBC 6 20 (6.390 %) .NET 7 17 (5.431 %) Spring 8 16 (5.112 %) Hibernate 9 14 (4.473 %) Struts 10 12 (3.834 %) JSP 10 12 (3.834 %) JSF 11 10 (3.195 %) HTML 12 8 (2.556 %) Middleware 12 8 (2.556 %) JMS 12 8 (2.556 %) SAP XI 13 6 (1.917 %) Servlets 14 5 (1.597 %) Swing 14 5 (1.597 %) ASP.NET 14 5 (1.597 %) WebServices 15 4 (1.278 %) MVC	Application Platforms 1 35 (11.18 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 29 (9.265 %) CICS 3 25 (7.987 %) Tomcat 4 15 (4.792 %) Apache 5 11 (3.514 %) JBoss 6 8 (2.556 %) WebLogic 7 7 (2.236 %) MQSeries 8 5 (1.597 %) WebSphere MQ 8 5 (1.597 %) PowerExchange 9 4 (1.278 %) SAS 9 4 (1.278 %) Oracle Application Server 10 3 (0.958 %) IBM HTTP Server 10 3 (0.958 %) CMS 10 3 (0.958 %) BizTalk Server 11 2 (0.639 %) ATG Dynamo 11 2 (0.639 %) SharePoint 11 2 (0.639 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 2 (0.639 %) TIBCO EMS 11 2 (0.639 %) ESB 12 1 (0.319 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 9 (2.875 %) MS Excel 2 4 (1.278 %) MS Project 2 4 (1.278 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.639 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 8 (2.556 %) JDE OneWorld 2 4 (1.278 %) SAP ERP 2 4 (1.278 %) SunGard GMI 3 3 (0.958 %) PeopleSoft Financials 4 1 (0.319 %) BASE24 4 1 (0.319 %) Summit 4 1 (0.319 %) RMDS 4 1 (0.319 %) Misys Midas 4 1 (0.319 %) JDE EnterpriseOne 4 1 (0.319 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 6 (1.917 %) Internet 1 6 (1.917 %) DNS 2 4 (1.278 %) SAN 2 4 (1.278 %) HTTP 2 4 (1.278 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (0.958 %) SMTP 3 3 (0.958 %) FTP 4 2 (0.639 %) LDAP 4 2 (0.639 %) SNA 4 2 (0.639 %) SSL 4 2 (0.639 %) Network Security 5 1 (0.319 %) Firewall 5 1 (0.319 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 63 (20.13 %) SQL Server 2 32 (10.22 %) DB2 UDB 3 25 (7.987 %) Datawarehouse 4 20 (6.390 %) ETL 5 15 (4.792 %) RDBMS 5 15 (4.792 %) BusinessObjects 6 12 (3.834 %) DataStage 6 12 (3.834 %) Oracle 10g 7 9 (2.875 %) Oracle 9i 8 8 (2.556 %) OLAP 8 8 (2.556 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 8 (2.556 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 8 (2.556 %) SQL Server 2005 8 8 (2.556 %) Oracle OLAP 9 7 (2.236 %) Ingres 9 7 (2.236 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 6 (1.917 %) SAP BW 10 6 (1.917 %) Data Mart 11 5 (1.597 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 5 (1.597 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 20 (6.390 %) Eclipse 2 15 (4.792 %) JUnit 3 9 (2.875 %) Ant 4 6 (1.917 %) TestDirector 5 5 (1.597 %) Log4j 6 3 (0.958 %) Subversion 6 3 (0.958 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 6 3 (0.958 %) PeopleTools 7 2 (0.639 %) ClearQuest 7 2 (0.639 %) Bugzilla 7 2 (0.639 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 2 (0.639 %) JBuilder 7 2 (0.639 %) ClearCase 7 2 (0.639 %) IntelliJ 7 2 (0.639 %) JDeveloper 7 2 (0.639 %) NUnit 8 1 (0.319 %) Oracle APEX 8 1 (0.319 %) Dreamweaver 8 1 (0.319 %) Rational Rose 8 1 (0.319 %) RequisitePro	General 1 72 (23.00 %) Finance 2 65 (20.77 %) Banking 3 22 (7.029 %) Investment Banking 4 20 (6.390 %) Retail 5 15 (4.792 %) Back Office 6 14 (4.473 %) Front Office 7 12 (3.834 %) Government 7 12 (3.834 %) Insurance 8 10 (3.195 %) General Ledger 9 8 (2.556 %) Corporate Banking 10 5 (1.597 %) Financial Institution 11 3 (0.958 %) Pharmaceutical 12 2 (0.639 %) Games 12 2 (0.639 %) Manufacturing 12 2 (0.639 %) Telecoms 12 2 (0.639 %) Education 12 2 (0.639 %) Retail Banking 13 1 (0.319 %) Military 13 1 (0.319 %) Local Government 13 1 (0.319 %) Health
Job Titles 1 98 (31.31 %) Developer 2 50 (15.97 %) DBA 3 43 (13.74 %) Java Developer 4 33 (10.54 %) Architect 5 31 (9.904 %) Analyst 6 25 (7.987 %) Consultant 7 24 (7.668 %) Administrator 7 24 (7.668 %) DB2 DBA 8 22 (7.029 %) Programmer 9 15 (4.792 %) C# Developer 10 12 (3.834 %) Senior Programmer 11 10 (3.195 %) Senior Developer 11 10 (3.195 %) Data Analyst 12 9 (2.875 %) J2EE Developer 12 9 (2.875 %) Oracle DBA 12 9 (2.875 %) Support Analyst 12 9 (2.875 %) Senior Consultant 13 8 (2.556 %) Sybase DBA 14 7 (2.236 %) SAP Project Manager 14 7 (2.236 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 46 (14.70 %) Mainframe 2 34 (10.86 %) Derivative 3 16 (5.112 %) IBM Mainframe 4 13 (4.153 %) AS400 5 12 (3.834 %) Equity Derivative 6 9 (2.875 %) Fixed Income 6 9 (2.875 %) VSAM 7 8 (2.556 %) Replication 8 4 (1.278 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 8 4 (1.278 %) Computer Science 8 4 (1.278 %) Clustering 9 3 (0.958 %) Equities 9 3 (0.958 %) PKI 9 3 (0.958 %) Multithreading 9 3 (0.958 %) Client/Server 10 2 (0.639 %) Biometrics 10 2 (0.639 %) EPoS 10 2 (0.639 %) Thin Client 10 2 (0.639 %) Management Information System 10 2 (0.639 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 101 (32.27 %) UNIX 2 36 (11.50 %) Windows 2 36 (11.50 %) Linux 3 32 (10.22 %) AIX 4 21 (6.709 %) zOS 5 14 (4.473 %) Solaris 6 5 (1.597 %) Red Hat Linux 6 5 (1.597 %) HPUX 7 3 (0.958 %) Gentoo 7 3 (0.958 %) OS/400 7 3 (0.958 %) Windows NT 7 3 (0.958 %) SUSE 7 3 (0.958 %) OS/390 8 2 (0.639 %) MVS 9 1 (0.319 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.319 %) Windows XP 9 1 (0.319 %) Windows 2000 9 1 (0.319 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (10.86 %) UML 2 25 (7.987 %) Migration 3 22 (7.029 %) Data Modelling 4 19 (6.070 %) Business Intelligence 5 14 (4.473 %) Content Management 5 14 (4.473 %) OO 6 11 (3.514 %) Workflow 7 10 (3.195 %) E-Commerce 8 9 (2.875 %) Data Migration 8 9 (2.875 %) RAD 9 8 (2.556 %) Risk Management 9 8 (2.556 %) Unit Testing 10 7 (2.236 %) Agile Software Development 10 7 (2.236 %) Load Balancing 10 7 (2.236 %) ERP 11 6 (1.917 %) Project Management 11 6 (1.917 %) Disaster Recovery 11 6 (1.917 %) SC Cleared 11 6 (1.917 %) Security Cleared 12 5 (1.597 %) Web Design
Programming Languages 1 112 (35.78 %) SQL 2 88 (28.12 %) Java 3 24 (7.668 %) C++ 4 22 (7.029 %) COBOL 5 20 (6.390 %) C# 6 14 (4.473 %) Perl 7 13 (4.153 %) RPG 8 11 (3.514 %) Shell Script 9 10 (3.195 %) JavaScript 10 8 (2.556 %) JCL 10 8 (2.556 %) REXX 10 8 (2.556 %) VC++ 11 7 (2.236 %) VB 12 6 (1.917 %) C 13 4 (1.278 %) PL/SQL 14 2 (0.639 %) PL/1 14 2 (0.639 %) Transact-SQL 14 2 (0.639 %) SAS Macro 15 1 (0.319 %) Korn 15 1 (0.319 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 8 (2.556 %) Degree 2 2 (0.639 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (0.639 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.319 %) SCWCD 3 1 (0.319 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (0.319 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (0.319 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (1.917 %) QA 2 1 (0.319 %) SLA	System Software 1 7 (2.236 %) Oracle RAC 2 2 (0.639 %) MSMQ 2 2 (0.639 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.639 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (0.319 %) NetBackup 3 1 (0.319 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.319 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (0.319 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.319 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 4 (1.278 %) MAINVIEW 2 3 (0.958 %) OMEGAMON 2 3 (0.958 %) DameWare 2 3 (0.958 %) CONTROL-M 2 3 (0.958 %) Tivoli 2 3 (0.958 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 2 (0.639 %) MOM 3 2 (0.639 %) AutoSys 3 2 (0.639 %) Foglight 4 1 (0.319 %) SCCM 4 1 (0.319 %) SCOM 4 1 (0.319 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 144 (46.01 %) Oracle 2 71 (22.68 %) IBM 3 53 (16.93 %) Sybase 4 16 (5.112 %) SAP 5 15 (4.792 %) Business Objects 5 15 (4.792 %) Microsoft 6 14 (4.473 %) BMC 6 14 (4.473 %) Informatica 7 13 (4.153 %) Vignette 8 8 (2.556 %) JD Edwards 9 7 (2.236 %) Pega 10 6 (1.917 %) TIBCO 10 6 (1.917 %) HP 10 6 (1.917 %) Pegasystems 11 5 (1.597 %) Ab Initio 11 5 (1.597 %) Red Hat 11 5 (1.597 %) BEA 12 4 (1.278 %) VERITAS 12 4 (1.278 %) PeopleSoft 12 4 (1.278 %) SunGard