DataStage Contracts

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 514 574 693
Rank change year-on-year +60 +119 +106
Contract jobs citing DataStage 6 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.018% 0.042%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.11% 0.11% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £463 £370
25th Percentile - £538 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +35.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £731 £600
90th Percentile - £758 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £370
% change year-on-year - +48.65% -1.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DataStage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DataStage.

Daily rate trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DataStage.

Hourly rate trend for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 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
England +56 6 £400 -40.74% 13
London +41 4 £400 -46.67% 9
Work from Home +38 3 - - 9
UK excluding London +62 2 - - 5
Midlands +22 1 - - 2
West Midlands +14 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - - 2

DataStage
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (33.33%) Apache
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) DB2
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (33.33%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Metadata
4 1 (16.67%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Big Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Talend