The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 24 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 North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 78 73 66
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -7
Contract jobs citing DB2 40 60 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.716% 1.929% 2.033%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.519% 8.798% 9.212%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 34
Average daily rate £344 £340 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.10% +7.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £220 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £496 £388 £425
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 £22.50 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-26.22% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
532 682 673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 22.82% 21.92% 22.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 355 367
Average daily rate £325 £300 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -9.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £453 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 33 43
Average hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.28 £13.35 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.50 £43.50 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DB2
England

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DB2 across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West DB2 Daily Rate Histogram

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire -7 16 £488 +39.28%
Lancashire +18 11 £336 -
Manchester -14 7 - -
Merseyside +1 2 £500 +127.27%
DB2
England

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 57 (67.06%) Oracle
2 39 (45.88%) Java
2 39 (45.88%) SQL
3 31 (36.47%) IBM
3 31 (36.47%) SAP
4 30 (35.29%) J2EE
5 28 (32.94%) UNIX
6 26 (30.59%) WebSphere
7 25 (29.41%) XML
8 23 (27.06%) EJB
9 22 (25.88%) JMS
9 22 (25.88%) RDBMS
10 20 (23.53%) SAP Basis
10 20 (23.53%) Finance
10 20 (23.53%) AIX
10 20 (23.53%) HTML
11 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
11 19 (22.35%) Linux
11 19 (22.35%) OO
12 17 (20.00%) Migration
12 17 (20.00%) JSP
13 16 (18.82%) Servlets
14 15 (17.65%) Struts
15 14 (16.47%) Ajax
15 14 (16.47%) Web Services
15 14 (16.47%) Tivoli
16 13 (15.29%) Internet
16 13 (15.29%) WebSphere Application Server
16 13 (15.29%) Solaris
16 13 (15.29%) WSDL

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 30 (35.29%) J2EE
2 26 (30.59%) WebSphere
3 25 (29.41%) XML
4 23 (27.06%) EJB
5 22 (25.88%) JMS
6 20 (23.53%) SAP Basis
6 20 (23.53%) HTML
7 17 (20.00%) JSP
8 16 (18.82%) Servlets
9 15 (17.65%) Struts
10 14 (16.47%) Ajax
10 14 (16.47%) Web Services
11 13 (15.29%) WSDL
12 10 (11.76%) XHTML
12 10 (11.76%) SOAP
12 10 (11.76%) JDBC
12 10 (11.76%) JSTL
13 9 (10.59%) JNDI
13 9 (10.59%) SAP XI
13 9 (10.59%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 13 (15.29%) WebSphere Application Server
2 10 (11.76%) NetWeaver
2 10 (11.76%) WebLogic
3 8 (9.412%) MQSeries
4 7 (8.235%) CICS
5 2 (2.353%) MS Exchange
5 2 (2.353%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.176%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (1.176%) Apache Solr
6 1 (1.176%) Apache
6 1 (1.176%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (1.176%) PowerExchange
Business Applications
1 8 (9.412%) Tridion
2 7 (8.235%) SAP BPC
3 2 (2.353%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (1.176%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 13 (15.29%) Internet
2 6 (7.059%) Firewall
2 6 (7.059%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.706%) SAN
3 4 (4.706%) SNA
4 3 (3.529%) DNS
4 3 (3.529%) SSL
5 2 (2.353%) FTP
5 2 (2.353%) HTTP
6 1 (1.176%) LDAP
6 1 (1.176%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.88%) RDBMS
2 12 (14.12%) SQL Server
3 9 (10.59%) SAP BW
4 4 (4.706%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.529%) Oracle 8/8i
5 3 (3.529%) Informix
6 2 (2.353%) PowerCenter
6 2 (2.353%) Oracle 10g
6 2 (2.353%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.176%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 13 (15.29%) Subversion
2 10 (11.76%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
2 10 (11.76%) Eclipse
2 10 (11.76%) JUnit
3 8 (9.412%) Ant
3 8 (9.412%) Log4j
4 5 (5.882%) ClearCase
5 3 (3.529%) Git (software)
5 3 (3.529%) Gradle
General
1 20 (23.53%) Finance
2 13 (15.29%) Retail
3 12 (14.12%) Banking
4 7 (8.235%) Games
5 2 (2.353%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.353%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.176%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (37.65%) Developer
2 23 (27.06%) Consultant
3 22 (25.88%) SAP Consultant
4 19 (22.35%) Java Developer
5 15 (17.65%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 10 (11.76%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 9 (10.59%) J2EE Developer
8 6 (7.059%) Senior Developer
8 6 (7.059%) Designer
8 6 (7.059%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.882%) Architect
9 5 (5.882%) Analyst
10 4 (4.706%) WebSphere Developer
10 4 (4.706%) Migration Consultant
11 3 (3.529%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 3 (3.529%) Infrastructure Designer
11 3 (3.529%) SAP Architect
11 3 (3.529%) Identity Management Specialist
11 3 (3.529%) DBA
12 2 (2.353%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.412%) Web 2.0
2 6 (7.059%) Mainframe
2 6 (7.059%) VSAM
3 5 (5.882%) PMI
4 4 (4.706%) Mobile Banking
4 4 (4.706%) IBM Mainframe
4 4 (4.706%) Online Banking
5 3 (3.529%) Replication
5 3 (3.529%) PKI
6 2 (2.353%) Computer Science
6 2 (2.353%) Tandem
6 2 (2.353%) Clustering
7 1 (1.176%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 28 (32.94%) UNIX
2 20 (23.53%) AIX
3 19 (22.35%) Linux
4 13 (15.29%) Solaris
5 10 (11.76%) HPUX
6 9 (10.59%) Windows
7 5 (5.882%) zOS
8 4 (4.706%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (3.529%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (1.176%) i5/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.35%) OO
2 17 (20.00%) Migration
3 11 (12.94%) UML
4 10 (11.76%) RAD
4 10 (11.76%) E-Commerce
5 9 (10.59%) Content Management
5 9 (10.59%) OOA/OOD
5 9 (10.59%) Project Management
6 8 (9.412%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (9.412%) Use Case
7 6 (7.059%) PRINCE2
7 6 (7.059%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (5.882%) Waterfall
8 5 (5.882%) BDD
8 5 (5.882%) RUP
8 5 (5.882%) MVC
8 5 (5.882%) CMMI
8 5 (5.882%) PRINCE
9 4 (4.706%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 39 (45.88%) Java
1 39 (45.88%) SQL
2 19 (22.35%) JavaScript
3 12 (14.12%) Perl
4 9 (10.59%) Bash shell
5 8 (9.412%) XPath
6 6 (7.059%) JCL
7 3 (3.529%) Groovy
7 3 (3.529%) C
8 2 (2.353%) REXX
8 2 (2.353%) ABAP
9 1 (1.176%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.176%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 6 (7.059%) SAP Certification
2 5 (5.882%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.353%) Degree
3 2 (2.353%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.176%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.176%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.529%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.59%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 4 (4.706%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.529%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.529%) Tivoli Directory Server
3 3 (3.529%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.353%) RACF
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Tivoli
2 11 (12.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (3.529%) BladeLogic
3 3 (3.529%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (3.529%) Tivoli Identity Manager
4 2 (2.353%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 57 (67.06%) Oracle
2 31 (36.47%) IBM
2 31 (36.47%) SAP
3 9 (10.59%) Curam
4 8 (9.412%) Interwoven
4 8 (9.412%) JBoss
4 8 (9.412%) Elastic Path
4 8 (9.412%) ATG
4 8 (9.412%) Blue Martini
5 7 (8.235%) VMware
5 7 (8.235%) CA
6 5 (5.882%) Chordiant
6 5 (5.882%) HP
6 5 (5.882%) Informatica
6 5 (5.882%) Citrix
7 3 (3.529%) Brocade
7 3 (3.529%) Cisco
7 3 (3.529%) Sun
7 3 (3.529%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.353%) Baan