The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank - 48 43
Contract jobs citing DB2 0 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire - 1.447% 1.078%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 6.569% 2.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
79 137 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 17.52% 22.03% 36.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 72 87
Average daily rate £325 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £257 £254
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 6
Average hourly rate £14.45 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.42% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.90 £17.14 £16.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.13 £20.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
DB2
South East

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire DB2 Daily Rate Trend

DB2
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxfordshire DB2 Hourly Rate Trend

DB2
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
2 2 (66.67%) Compuware
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (33.33%) AS400
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) AS400
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) IBM
1 2 (66.67%) Compuware
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) HP