The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales 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 37 37 29
Rank change year-on-year
0 -8
Contract jobs citing DB2 4 6 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 1.220% 1.485% 4.327%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.061% 8.000% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
Average daily rate £375 £425 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +21.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £425 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £425 £400
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
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
66 75 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 20.12% 18.56% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 41 49
Average daily rate £400 £350 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +6.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £287 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £485 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £26.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -37.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
DB2
Wales

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales 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 South Wales 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
Cardiff +3 3 £388 -8.82%
DB2
Wales

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 10 (83.33%) RPG
2 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) IIS
2 8 (66.67%) OS/400
2 8 (66.67%) IBM
3 7 (58.33%) UNIX
3 7 (58.33%) COBOL
3 7 (58.33%) AS400
3 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
3 7 (58.33%) WebSphere
4 6 (50.00%) iSeries
4 6 (50.00%) Project Management
4 6 (50.00%) MS Office
4 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (41.67%) TestDirector
5 5 (41.67%) UML
5 5 (41.67%) OO
5 5 (41.67%) MS Project
6 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 4 (33.33%) Degree
7 3 (25.00%) AIX
8 2 (16.67%) Migration
8 2 (16.67%) Banking
8 2 (16.67%) Data Management
8 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
8 2 (16.67%) Oracle
8 2 (16.67%) XML
8 2 (16.67%) ETL
8 2 (16.67%) Windows
8 2 (16.67%) XML Schema

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 7 (58.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (16.67%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 8 (66.67%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Office
2 5 (41.67%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) TestDirector
2 2 (16.67%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 6 (50.00%) Applications Support
3 3 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (8.333%) Programmer
5 1 (8.333%) AS400 Support
5 1 (8.333%) AS400 Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) AS400
2 6 (50.00%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) OS/400
2 7 (58.33%) UNIX
3 3 (25.00%) AIX
4 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Project Management
2 5 (41.67%) UML
2 5 (41.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) RPG
2 7 (58.33%) COBOL
2 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (16.67%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) IBM
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) Rackspace
3 2 (16.67%) Talend