Informix Contracts

IBM Informix
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Informix skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Informix over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 699 809
Rank change year-on-year +122 +110 -138
Contract jobs citing Informix 9 23 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.038% 0.025%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 22
10th Percentile £317 £450 £302
25th Percentile £360 £463 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -14.20% -2.91% +21.18%
75th Percentile £485 £525 £541
90th Percentile £496 £614 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £452 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -7.71% -6.71% +23.53%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Informix 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 7,301 10,856 17,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.73% 18.08% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 7,727 12,773
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.09% +10.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 184 189
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% +57.64%
75th Percentile £57.61 £71.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.09% +65.84% +45.83%

Informix
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Informix in the UK

Informix
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Informix in the UK

Informix
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Informix over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Informix in the UK

Informix
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Informix in the UK

Informix
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informix within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
UK excluding London +64 8 £452 -7.71% 5
Work from Home +123 6 £475 -0.94% 3
Scotland +17 6 £475 -3.01% 3
England +116 3 £323 -40.00% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £320 -
North of England - 2 £320 -

Informix
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (66.67%) Serverless
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CodeCommit
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (66.67%) MongoDB
3 3 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (33.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (11.11%) Ingres
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Database Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Informix DBA
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Informix Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Replication
2 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) HPUX
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Solaris
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 6 (66.67%) High Availability
1 6 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (66.67%) Kanban
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
1 6 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 3 (33.33%) Database Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) Database Security
4 2 (22.22%) Statistics
5 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 3 (33.33%) Commvault
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 2 (22.22%) Sun