The first table below looks at the demand for DB2 skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DB2 over the 3 months to 24 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 for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM DB2
Rank 92 98 114
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +16
Permanent jobs citing DB2 31 30 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.723% 1.494% 0.303%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.167% 4.386% 0.865%
Number of salaries quoted 17 27 5
Average salary £47,500 £38,500 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.37% -16.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £23,500 £34,900
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,100 £57,400
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
600 684 578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 33.35% 34.06% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 486 616 535
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £61,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
DB2
North West

DB2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing DB2 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Cheshire DB2 Jobs Demand Trend

DB2
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DB2 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire DB2 Salary Trend

DB2
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DB2 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire DB2 Salary Histogram

DB2
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DB2 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester - 8 - -
Warrington +21 6 £41,750 -9.23%
Knutsford -1 4 £36,250 +42.15%
Wilmslow -9 1 £47,500 +23.37%
DB2
North West

DB2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing DB2 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DB2.

1 32 (53.33%) Oracle
2 28 (46.67%) SQL
3 27 (45.00%) Finance
4 24 (40.00%) Banking
5 23 (38.33%) UNIX
6 21 (35.00%) IBM
6 21 (35.00%) Java
7 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
7 19 (31.67%) Risk Management
8 18 (30.00%) Mainframe
8 18 (30.00%) Windows
9 17 (28.33%) SQL Server
10 16 (26.67%) J2EE
11 15 (25.00%) MS Excel
11 15 (25.00%) CICS
11 15 (25.00%) Incident Management
12 13 (21.67%) Financial Institution
12 13 (21.67%) Linux
12 13 (21.67%) .NET
12 13 (21.67%) WebSphere
12 13 (21.67%) Waterfall
13 12 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
13 12 (20.00%) JSP
13 12 (20.00%) Tivoli
13 12 (20.00%) Project Management
14 11 (18.33%) JCL
14 11 (18.33%) C++
15 10 (16.67%) ITIL
15 10 (16.67%) JMS
15 10 (16.67%) Online Banking

DB2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing DB2 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited DB2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (26.67%) J2EE
2 13 (21.67%) .NET
2 13 (21.67%) WebSphere
3 12 (20.00%) JSP
4 10 (16.67%) JMS
5 9 (15.00%) JDBC
6 8 (13.33%) ISPF
7 5 (8.333%) Struts
7 5 (8.333%) JNDI
8 4 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (6.667%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.667%) ASP.NET
8 4 (6.667%) Web Services
8 4 (6.667%) XML
9 2 (3.333%) Apache Flex
9 2 (3.333%) EDIFACT
9 2 (3.333%) EJB
9 2 (3.333%) Servlets
10 1 (1.667%) XSD
10 1 (1.667%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 15 (25.00%) CICS
2 5 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
3 4 (6.667%) MQSeries
4 3 (5.000%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (3.333%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (3.333%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.667%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.667%) Confluence
6 1 (1.667%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (1.667%) ESB
Applications
1 15 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (13.33%) MS Office
3 4 (6.667%) MS Visio
4 3 (5.000%) MS Project
4 3 (5.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.667%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.333%) LAN
2 4 (6.667%) SSL
3 3 (5.000%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.333%) Internet
4 2 (3.333%) SAN
4 2 (3.333%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.333%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.667%) MySQL
4 2 (3.333%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Selenium
2 4 (6.667%) ChangeMan
2 4 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.000%) JIRA
4 2 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.333%) ClearCase
5 1 (1.667%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.667%) Subversion
General
1 27 (45.00%) Finance
2 24 (40.00%) Banking
3 13 (21.67%) Financial Institution
4 8 (13.33%) Retail
4 8 (13.33%) Private Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Retail Banking
4 8 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Applications Support
3 9 (15.00%) Developer
4 8 (13.33%) Consultant
4 8 (13.33%) Support Specialist
5 7 (11.67%) Applications Support Specialist
5 7 (11.67%) Applications Specialist
5 7 (11.67%) Architect
6 6 (10.00%) Support Analyst
6 6 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (8.333%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.333%) Integration Architect
7 5 (8.333%) Software Engineer
7 5 (8.333%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (6.667%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (6.667%) Mainframe Consultant
8 4 (6.667%) Incident Analyst
8 4 (6.667%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Automation Tester
8 4 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Mainframe
2 12 (20.00%) IBM Mainframe
3 10 (16.67%) Online Banking
4 6 (10.00%) PMI
5 5 (8.333%) Replication
6 4 (6.667%) LPAR
6 4 (6.667%) NHS
6 4 (6.667%) Management Information System
7 3 (5.000%) AS400
7 3 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (5.000%) iSeries
8 2 (3.333%) Tandem
8 2 (3.333%) VSAM
8 2 (3.333%) Cryptography
8 2 (3.333%) SWIFT
9 1 (1.667%) IVR
9 1 (1.667%) Mathematics
9 1 (1.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.33%) UNIX
2 18 (30.00%) Windows
3 13 (21.67%) Linux
4 8 (13.33%) AIX
5 5 (8.333%) zOS
5 5 (8.333%) MVS
6 4 (6.667%) VMS
6 4 (6.667%) OpenVMS
7 2 (3.333%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) Risk Management
2 15 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 13 (21.67%) Waterfall
4 12 (20.00%) Project Management
5 10 (16.67%) ITIL
5 10 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (15.00%) Problem Management
7 8 (13.33%) PRINCE2
7 8 (13.33%) Wealth Management
7 8 (13.33%) Investment Management
7 8 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 8 (13.33%) Asset Management
8 7 (11.67%) PRINCE
9 6 (10.00%) Migration
10 5 (8.333%) RUP
10 5 (8.333%) CMMI
10 5 (8.333%) DRM
10 5 (8.333%) Data Protection
11 4 (6.667%) Software Testing
11 4 (6.667%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) SQL
2 21 (35.00%) Java
3 11 (18.33%) JCL
3 11 (18.33%) C++
4 8 (13.33%) C
4 8 (13.33%) Perl
4 8 (13.33%) VB
4 8 (13.33%) PL/SQL
5 6 (10.00%) C#
6 5 (8.333%) COBOL
7 4 (6.667%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.667%) RPG
8 1 (1.667%) PHP
8 1 (1.667%) REXX
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.667%) Sun Certification
3 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.667%) SCJA
3 1 (1.667%) SCJP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.333%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 5 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (20.00%) Tivoli
2 5 (8.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (8.333%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (8.333%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (6.667%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.667%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 32 (53.33%) Oracle
2 21 (35.00%) IBM
3 19 (31.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.333%) SAP
4 5 (8.333%) HP
4 5 (8.333%) EMC
4 5 (8.333%) VMware
4 5 (8.333%) Cisco
4 5 (8.333%) Brocade
5 2 (3.333%) Pega
5 2 (3.333%) Planview
5 2 (3.333%) JBoss
5 2 (3.333%) Chordiant
6 1 (1.667%) Sybase
6 1 (1.667%) Citrix
6 1 (1.667%) Sun
6 1 (1.667%) Perforce
Cheshire, North West
End-to-End Integration Engineer / Architect - Java, J2EE, .NET, IBM Mainframe, MQ Message Broker, End-to-End Design... The successful individuals will have experience of the full end-...
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Salary: £40000.00 - £65000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
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Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 4 May 2013