DataStage Contracts in the UK excluding London

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DataStage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DataStage over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 386 428
Rank change year-on-year +27 +42 +91
Contract jobs citing DataStage 11 4 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.020% 0.026%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.48% 0.16% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £455 £494 £444
25th Percentile £463 £522 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -6.00% +25.15%
75th Percentile £538 £647 £638
90th Percentile £545 £671 -
UK median daily rate £458 £608 £526
% change year-on-year -24.69% +15.60% -32.19%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,269 2,570 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.19% 13.01% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 1,777 2,360
10th Percentile £300 £313 £330
25th Percentile £387 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 81 105
10th Percentile £18.55 £13.69 £20.95
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% -42.86% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £38.48 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.26% -30.91% +29.41%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DataStage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DataStage in the UK excluding London

DataStage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataStage in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DataStage in the UK excluding London

DataStage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataStage in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DataStage in the UK excluding London

DataStage
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Midlands - 6 £500 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £500 - 1
Yorkshire 0 4 - -
North of England -1 4 - -
South East - 1 - - 1
DataStage
UK

DataStage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Lake
1 4 (36.36%) Delta Lake
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) Star Schema
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (9.09%) DB2
4 1 (9.09%) Metadata
4 1 (9.09%) QualityStage
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
1 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) ETL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) DataStage Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DataStage ETL Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) PySpark
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) ETL
2 6 (54.55%) Data Migration
2 6 (54.55%) Migration
3 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) Data Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Data Extraction
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Information Assurance
6 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) IBM
2 5 (45.45%) Talend
3 4 (36.36%) Databricks
3 4 (36.36%) Informatica