The first table below looks at the demand for Informix skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Informix over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Informix
Rank 100 - 126
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Informix 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.050% - 0.066%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.251% - 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £325 £388
% change year-on-year
+34.61% -16.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
398 619 681
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 19.81% 19.80% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 369 370
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £438 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £330
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 44
Average hourly rate £43.50 £22.75 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+91.20% -26.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £14.44 £15.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £97.50 £46.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -19.35%
Informix
England

Informix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West Informix Jobs Demand Trend

Informix
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Informix across the South West region.

South West Informix Daily Rate Trend

Informix
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Informix 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 Informix.

1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Fredhopper
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) J2EE
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) EJB
2 1 (50.00%) JSP
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSD
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) DSDM
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) WSDL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (50.00%) ATG
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum

Informix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing Informix 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 Informix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) J2EE
1 1 (50.00%) EJB
1 1 (50.00%) JSP
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSD
1 1 (50.00%) WSDL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Database Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Database Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) DSDM
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Fredhopper
2 1 (50.00%) Sybase
2 1 (50.00%) ATG
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