The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 22 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 Nottingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 32 29 20
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Contract jobs citing DB2 5 1 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.748% 0.442% 3.913%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.333% 2.326% 18.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £30.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.25 £30.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-13.93% -12.85%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
60 43 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 20.98% 19.03% 21.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 24 19
Average daily rate £325 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £435 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 4
Average hourly rate £29.00 £8.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+241.17% -71.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.70 £8.50 £17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.30 £8.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
DB2
Nottinghamshire

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (85.71%) UNIX
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 5 (71.43%) Tivoli
2 5 (71.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 5 (71.43%) WebSphere
2 5 (71.43%) WebSphere Portal
3 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) OLTP
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
4 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) zOS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) DB2 UDB

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (71.43%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) OLTP
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) DB2 UDB
General
1 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) zOS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Tivoli
1 5 (71.43%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft