IMS/DB Contracts in London

IBM IMS/DB
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 - 492
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMS/DB 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% - 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.071% - 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £475
75th Percentile £463 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 - £475

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

IMS/DB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IMS/DB in London

IMS/DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IMS/DB in London

IMS/DB
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South London - 1 - -
IMS/DB
England

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AOP
1 2 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle