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

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 Informix
Rank 527 531 563
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +32
Contract jobs citing Informix 14 34 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.058% 0.037%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.145% 0.306% 0.181%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 9
Average daily rate £325 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £322 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £415 £630
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £325 £375
% change year-on-year
+11.53% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Database & Business Intelligence
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
9625 11115 12673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 20.77% 19.04% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5819 6381 7051
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 £255 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 267 393
Average hourly rate £25.85 £27.50 £31.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.00% -12.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.34 £12.50 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £44.55 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%

Informix
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Informix Daily Rate Trend

Informix
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Informix within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Informix Daily Rate Histogram

Informix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Informix Hourly Rate Trend

Informix
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informix within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +23 13 £325 -13.33%
London +21 6 £288 -28.12%
North West +11 5 £325 +1.56%
Liverpool - 5 £325 -
Merseyside - 5 £325 -
South West - 2 £400 -
Somerset - 1 - -
Gloucestershire - 1 £400 -
Harrow - 1 £363 -
Cheltenham - 1 £400 -

Informix
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 16 (59.26%) Oracle
2 12 (44.44%) Linux
3 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
4 9 (33.33%) UNIX
4 9 (33.33%) Windows
5 8 (29.63%) Perl
5 8 (29.63%) SQL
6 7 (25.93%) MySQL
6 7 (25.93%) Solaris
7 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
7 6 (22.22%) C
8 5 (18.52%) DB2
8 5 (18.52%) SAP
8 5 (18.52%) ITIL
8 5 (18.52%) SAN
8 5 (18.52%) Uniface
8 5 (18.52%) Finance
9 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
9 4 (14.81%) Java
10 3 (11.11%) Sybase
10 3 (11.11%) Apache
10 3 (11.11%) EMC
10 3 (11.11%) RHCE
10 3 (11.11%) Veritas
10 3 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
10 3 (11.11%) SSL
10 3 (11.11%) Cisco
10 3 (11.11%) IBM
10 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing

Informix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 2 (7.407%) WSDL
1 2 (7.407%) EJB
1 2 (7.407%) JSP
1 2 (7.407%) XML
1 2 (7.407%) XSD
1 2 (7.407%) .NET
1 2 (7.407%) J2EE
1 2 (7.407%) HTML
2 1 (3.704%) ASP
2 1 (3.704%) CSS
2 1 (3.704%) Flash
2 1 (3.704%) JMS
2 1 (3.704%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (7.407%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) MTS
3 1 (3.704%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.704%) CICS
3 1 (3.704%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Office
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (3.704%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) SAN
2 3 (11.11%) SSL
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (3.704%) LDAP
3 1 (3.704%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.704%) Wireless
3 1 (3.704%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.93%) MySQL
3 5 (18.52%) DB2
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (7.407%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (3.704%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.704%) RDBMS
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (3.704%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Subversion
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 2 (7.407%) Financial Institution
2 2 (7.407%) Manufacturing
2 2 (7.407%) Retail
3 1 (3.704%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Developer
2 7 (25.93%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (25.93%) Administrator
3 4 (14.81%) Uniface Developer
3 4 (14.81%) C Developer
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (7.407%) Junior Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.407%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.407%) Junior
5 2 (7.407%) Technical Architect
5 2 (7.407%) Consultant
6 1 (3.704%) Solutions Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.704%) Oracle Developer
6 1 (3.704%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.704%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
1 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 3 (11.11%) Open Source
2 2 (7.407%) Hedge funds
2 2 (7.407%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.704%) Tandem
3 1 (3.704%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) UNIX
2 9 (33.33%) Windows
3 7 (25.93%) Solaris
4 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.407%) Windows XP
5 2 (7.407%) AIX
5 2 (7.407%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (18.52%) ITIL
2 3 (11.11%) Unit Testing
2 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (11.11%) Data Management
2 3 (11.11%) Change Management
2 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 2 (7.407%) Software Architecture
3 2 (7.407%) Project Management
3 2 (7.407%) Process Management
3 2 (7.407%) Migration
3 2 (7.407%) Scrum
3 2 (7.407%) Resource Management
3 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis
3 2 (7.407%) Strategic Planning
3 2 (7.407%) SOA
3 2 (7.407%) ERP
3 2 (7.407%) DSDM
3 2 (7.407%) E-Commerce
3 2 (7.407%) UML
4 1 (3.704%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) Perl
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) C
3 5 (18.52%) Uniface
4 4 (14.81%) Java
5 2 (7.407%) PHP
6 1 (3.704%) VBA
6 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.704%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) RHCE
1 3 (11.11%) SCSA
2 2 (7.407%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.704%) MCP
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.704%) OCA
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 2 (7.407%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 5 (18.52%) SAP
4 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.11%) Sybase
5 3 (11.11%) EMC
5 3 (11.11%) Veritas
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 3 (11.11%) IBM
6 2 (7.407%) Fredhopper
6 2 (7.407%) NYFIX
6 2 (7.407%) Baan
6 2 (7.407%) JD Edwards
6 2 (7.407%) ATG
6 2 (7.407%) GL TRADE
6 2 (7.407%) Sun
6 2 (7.407%) HP
7 1 (3.704%) BEA
7 1 (3.704%) Informatica
7 1 (3.704%) Teradata