The first table below looks at the demand for DataStage skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DataStage 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.

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 InfoSphere DataStage
Rank 443 461 447
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -14
Contract jobs citing DataStage 91 125 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.193% 0.211% 0.231%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.931% 1.105% 1.133%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 35 47
Average daily rate £439 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.68% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £260 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £465 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £400 £363
% change year-on-year
+12.50% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £12.00 - £24.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.25
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9779 11309 12273
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.75% 19.08% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5906 6490 6840
Average daily rate £388 £375 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -5.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £258 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 271 387
Average hourly rate £25.60 £27.50 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.90% -11.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.31 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%

DataStage
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DataStage Jobs Demand Trend

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DataStage within the UK.

DataStage Daily Rate Trend

DataStage
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DataStage within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

DataStage Daily Rate Histogram

DataStage
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DataStage within the UK.

DataStage Hourly Rate Trend

DataStage
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +33 90 £439 +23.15%
London +29 48 £425 +17.24%
South East +8 29 £500 +42.85%
Berkshire +12 21 £500 +48.14%
City of London +13 18 £406 +15.91%
Slough - 8 £550 -
Sheffield +5 5 £400 -20.00%
South Yorkshire -1 5 £400 -
Yorkshire -4 5 £400 -
Kent +2 4 - -
Surrey +20 3 - -
West Midlands +12 3 - -
Warwickshire -2 3 - -
South West - 3 £450 -
Reading -4 1 £550 +103.70%
Midlands - 1 £300 -
Somerset - 1 £265 -
West Drayton - 1 £363 -
Taunton - 1 £265 -
Bristol - 1 £450 -

DataStage
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DataStage 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 DataStage.

1 75 (53.96%) ETL
2 74 (53.24%) Oracle
3 56 (40.29%) IBM
4 54 (38.85%) SQL
5 53 (38.13%) Data Warehouse
6 52 (37.41%) Business Intelligence
7 50 (35.97%) Cognos
8 31 (22.30%) Informatica
8 31 (22.30%) SAP
9 24 (17.27%) Migration
10 22 (15.83%) Finance
10 22 (15.83%) Business Objects
10 22 (15.83%) SQL Server
11 20 (14.39%) Oracle 8/8i
12 19 (13.67%) Sybase
12 19 (13.67%) PL/SQL
13 17 (12.23%) Data Modelling
14 16 (11.51%) IBM InfoSphere
15 14 (10.07%) MicroStrategy
16 13 (9.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 13 (9.353%) Data Integration
17 12 (8.633%) Data Migration
17 12 (8.633%) Teradata
18 11 (7.914%) Banking
18 11 (7.914%) Microsoft
18 11 (7.914%) SAS
18 11 (7.914%) UNIX
19 9 (6.475%) XML
19 9 (6.475%) OLAP
19 9 (6.475%) Siebel

DataStage
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DataStage 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 DataStage. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (6.475%) XML
2 8 (5.755%) WebSphere
3 6 (4.317%) MDX
4 4 (2.878%) BAPI
4 4 (2.878%) Middleware
5 2 (1.439%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.439%) .NET
6 1 (0.719%) SAP Smart Forms
6 1 (0.719%) WSDL
6 1 (0.719%) JMS
6 1 (0.719%) XSD
6 1 (0.719%) XSLT
6 1 (0.719%) ODBC
6 1 (0.719%) JDBC
6 1 (0.719%) SOAP
6 1 (0.719%) Web Services
6 1 (0.719%) SAP ALE
Application Platforms
1 11 (7.914%) SAS
2 7 (5.036%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.317%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (2.878%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (2.158%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (1.439%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 2 (1.439%) Documentum
7 1 (0.719%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.719%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.719%) FileNet
7 1 (0.719%) MS Exchange
7 1 (0.719%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.719%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.719%) WorkSite
Applications
1 5 (3.597%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (1.439%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.719%) SPSS
3 1 (0.719%) MS Office
3 1 (0.719%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (5.036%) SAP BPC
2 4 (2.878%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 4 (2.878%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.439%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.719%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.719%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.719%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.719%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.158%) HTTP
2 1 (0.719%) FTP
2 1 (0.719%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (38.13%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (15.83%) SQL Server
3 20 (14.39%) Oracle 8/8i
4 16 (11.51%) IBM InfoSphere
5 13 (9.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.475%) OLAP
6 9 (6.475%) BusinessObjects
6 9 (6.475%) Oracle OLAP
7 8 (5.755%) QlikView
7 8 (5.755%) Oracle Reports
7 8 (5.755%) DB2
7 8 (5.755%) SAP BW
7 8 (5.755%) SAP BI
7 8 (5.755%) SAP Data Services
8 7 (5.036%) Sybase IQ
8 7 (5.036%) Xcelsius
9 6 (4.317%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (4.317%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.317%) MySQL
10 5 (3.597%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (4.317%) Talend Open Studio
2 5 (3.597%) ERwin
3 2 (1.439%) LSMW
4 1 (0.719%) Oracle Forms
General
1 22 (15.83%) Finance
2 11 (7.914%) Banking
3 4 (2.878%) Marketing
3 4 (2.878%) Retail
3 4 (2.878%) Investment Banking
3 4 (2.878%) Advertising
4 3 (2.158%) Automotive
5 2 (1.439%) French Language
5 2 (1.439%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.719%) Law
Job Titles
1 55 (39.57%) Developer
2 25 (17.99%) DataStage Developer
3 23 (16.55%) Analyst
4 19 (13.67%) Consultant
5 15 (10.79%) ETL Developer
6 13 (9.353%) Architect
6 13 (9.353%) Team Leader
7 8 (5.755%) DataStage Consultant
7 8 (5.755%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 8 (5.755%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.317%) Cognos Developer
8 6 (4.317%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (4.317%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.597%) Lead Developer
9 5 (3.597%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (3.597%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 5 (3.597%) Oracle Developer
9 5 (3.597%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.597%) Designer
10 3 (2.158%) Integration Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.353%) Data Integration
2 3 (2.158%) Mainframe
2 3 (2.158%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.158%) Mathematics
2 3 (2.158%) iSeries
3 2 (1.439%) DataPower
4 1 (0.719%) Replication
4 1 (0.719%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.719%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.914%) UNIX
2 7 (5.036%) Linux
3 5 (3.597%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (53.96%) ETL
2 52 (37.41%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (17.27%) Migration
4 17 (12.23%) Data Modelling
5 12 (8.633%) Data Migration
6 8 (5.755%) Dimensional Modelling
6 8 (5.755%) Analytics
6 8 (5.755%) Kimball Methodology
7 7 (5.036%) Scrum
7 7 (5.036%) Data Analysis
7 7 (5.036%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (4.317%) Data Mapping
8 6 (4.317%) Project Management
8 6 (4.317%) Change Data Capture
9 5 (3.597%) Workflow
9 5 (3.597%) Information Management
9 5 (3.597%) Data Management
10 4 (2.878%) Waterfall
10 4 (2.878%) Performance Management
10 4 (2.878%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.85%) SQL
2 19 (13.67%) PL/SQL
3 7 (5.036%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.317%) Java
5 3 (2.158%) RPG IV
5 3 (2.158%) RPG
6 2 (1.439%) Perl
6 2 (1.439%) ABAP
6 2 (1.439%) C
7 1 (0.719%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.719%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.719%) VB
7 1 (0.719%) Korn
7 1 (0.719%) XPath
7 1 (0.719%) Bourne shell
7 1 (0.719%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (3.597%) Degree
2 1 (0.719%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (0.719%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.597%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.597%) QA
2 1 (0.719%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (0.719%) Oracle RAC
Vendors
1 74 (53.24%) Oracle
2 56 (40.29%) IBM
3 50 (35.97%) Cognos
4 31 (22.30%) Informatica
4 31 (22.30%) SAP
5 22 (15.83%) Business Objects
6 19 (13.67%) Sybase
7 14 (10.07%) MicroStrategy
8 12 (8.633%) Teradata
9 11 (7.914%) Microsoft
10 9 (6.475%) Siebel
10 9 (6.475%) Netezza
11 7 (5.036%) Hyperion
12 6 (4.317%) Talend
12 6 (4.317%) Infobright
13 5 (3.597%) Ab Initio
14 2 (1.439%) DataFlux
14 2 (1.439%) Trillium
15 1 (0.719%) Tableau
15 1 (0.719%) Hummingbird
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