DataStage Contract Job Trends in the North of England

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DataStage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 163 180
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 +61
Contract jobs citing DataStage 7 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% 0.028% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.94% 0.20% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £376 - £431
25th Percentile £404 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £469 £525 -
90th Percentile £480 - -
England median daily rate £470 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -21.67% +33.33% -28.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 747 509 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.13% 14.06% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 318 477
10th Percentile £316 £325 £300
25th Percentile £371 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.93% -2.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £660
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 16
10th Percentile £39.20 £22.72 £20.38
25th Percentile £53.75 £23.48 £25.41
Median hourly rate £64.50 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +134.55% -40.45% -28.95%
75th Percentile £81.50 £49.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £85.20 £65.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +16.00% -18.80% -10.76%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DataStage job vacancy trend in the North of England

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DataStage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DataStage

DataStage
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DataStage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DataStage

DataStage
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Yorkshire -39 6 £463 -7.50% 1
North West - 1 £358 -
DataStage
England

DataStage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Collibra
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (57.14%) Delta Lake
2 2 (28.57%) BigQuery
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) DB2
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Transpiler
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 1 (14.29%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Scala
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) Groovy
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Informatica
2 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) Talend
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Ab Initio