DataStage Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DataStage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DataStage 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.032% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £325 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £425 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 306 259 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.87% 15.82% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 172 219
10th Percentile £329 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £610 £650 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 6 13
10th Percentile £28.51 £13.25 £26.24
25th Percentile £30.05 £15.81 £48.18
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.03 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +87.33% -54.50% +90.59%
75th Percentile £82.25 £32.05 -
90th Percentile £84.20 £42.90 £64.10
South East median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.59
% change year-on-year +19.34% -37.88% -1.26%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

DataStage job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataStage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataStage

DataStage
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataStage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DataStage

DataStage
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £350 -
DataStage
South East

DataStage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Teradata