IMS/DB Contracts in Lancashire

IBM IMS/DB
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire requiring IMS/DB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IMS/DB over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMS/DB 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 1.03% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £551 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £551 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Lancashire

IMS/DB 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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 17 22 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 8.72% 9.48% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £413 £237 £390
25th Percentile £463 £381 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £493 £596
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% -17.23% +13.46%
75th Percentile £548 £625 £644
90th Percentile £575 £705 £708
North West median daily rate £448 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -3.50% -2.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £31.85 £26.29
25th Percentile - £37.63 £33.69
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £45.08
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +19.26%
75th Percentile - - £53.84
90th Percentile - - £55.38
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £44.74 £40.30
% change year-on-year -35.74% +11.03% -5.19%

IMS/DB
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing IMS/DB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for IMS/DB in Lancashire

IMS/DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IMS/DB in Lancashire.

Daily rate trend for IMS/DB in Lancashire

IMS/DB
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IMS/DB within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Blackpool - 1 - - 1
Lytham St Annes - 1 £551 - 2
IMS/DB
North West

IMS/DB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JCL
1 2 (100.00%) PL/1
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Syncsort