DataStage Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring DataStage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DataStage 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.98% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
North West median daily rate £358 - £450

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

DataStage falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 102 60 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.63% 12.07% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 43 33
10th Percentile £307 £344 -
25th Percentile £340 £360 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +15.15% -16.67%
75th Percentile £489 £549 £510
90th Percentile £652 £588 £562
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.60 - -
25th Percentile £51.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile £81.40 - -
North West median hourly rate £64.50 £56.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year +14.67% +7.14% +16.67%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataStage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

DataStage job vacancy trend in Cheshire

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DataStage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DataStage

DataStage
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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
Knutsford - 1 £358 - 1
DataStage
North West

DataStage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Parallel Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica