DataStage Contracts

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DataStage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DataStage over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 694 789
Rank change year-on-year +104 +95 -119
Contract jobs citing DataStage 8 25 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.042% 0.068%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.11% 0.23% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 17 40
10th Percentile £463 £370 £361
25th Percentile £538 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -9.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £731 £600 £784
90th Percentile £758 £651 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £370 £375
% change year-on-year +48.65% -1.33% -17.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DataStage is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,245 10,781 17,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.03% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,147 7,685 12,759
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +9.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 185 187
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%
75th Percentile £58.55 £71.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +64.29% +45.83%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataStage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataStage.

Daily rate trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DataStage over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataStage.

Hourly rate trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +118 7 £675 +67.70% 3
Work from Home +123 6 £588 +11.90%
UK excluding London +59 3 £550 +48.65% 3
North of England +34 2 £675 +67.70% 3
London +94 1 £750 +50.00%
West Midlands +28 1 £425 +14.86%
Midlands +21 1 £425 +14.86%
North West +16 1 £675 +67.70% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

DataStage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Qlik Sense
2 2 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) DB2
3 1 (12.50%) QlikView
3 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) DataStage Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DB2 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) ETL Development
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Embarcadero
2 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP