Manchester DB2 Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IBM DB2 skills within the Manchester 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	77	56
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching contract IT job ads	4	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.498 %	4.797 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£373
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£42.79	£37.10
% change on same period last year	+15.33 %
Database & Business Intelligence Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	267	271
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.352 %	0.270 %
Daily rates quoted	38	49
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£283
Average daily rate	£300	£307
% change on same period last year	-2.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.70	£18.71
Average hourly rate	£28.96	£20.78
% change on same period last year	+39.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.23	£22.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
DB2 North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DB2
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (37.50 %) IBM 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 2 (25.00 %) Mainframe 2 2 (25.00 %) Migration 2 2 (25.00 %) COBOL 3 1 (12.50 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 3 1 (12.50 %) Perl 3 1 (12.50 %) SQL 3 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 3 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 1 (12.50 %) AIX 3 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Information Management

3 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere 3 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction 3 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (12.50 %) Sun 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) CICS 3 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language 3 1 (12.50 %) zOS 3 1 (12.50 %) MVS

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) CICS
General 1 3 (37.50 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Analyst Programmer 2 1 (12.50 %) Programmer 2 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) J2EE Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Database Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Access Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (12.50 %) COBOL Developer 2 1 (12.50 %) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (25.00 %) Mainframe 2 1 (12.50 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 1 1 (12.50 %) AIX 1 1 (12.50 %) zOS 1 1 (12.50 %) MVS
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Migration 2 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Information Management 2 1 (12.50 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) COBOL 2 1 (12.50 %) Java 2 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 2 1 (12.50 %) Perl 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL 2 1 (12.50 %) Assembly Language
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Sun 2 1 (12.50 %) HP