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 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 583 650
Rank change year-on-year +41 +67 +170
Contract jobs citing DataStage 9 7 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.016% 0.046%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.15% 0.092% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 17
10th Percentile - £513 £375
25th Percentile - £569 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +35.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile - £731 £600
90th Percentile - £758 £644
UK excluding London median daily rate - £588 £403
% change year-on-year - +45.96% +7.33%

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 5,909 7,601 9,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.18% 17.68% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,011 5,415 6,883
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 141 174
10th Percentile £19.82 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.38 £20.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.50 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -33.67% +54.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £76.50 £71.50 £81.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £32.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.39% -40.45% +57.14%

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 9 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 11 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
England +34 9 £400 -40.74% 13
UK excluding London +37 7 - - 5
Yorkshire +9 4 - -
North of England +3 4 - -
London +16 2 £400 -46.67% 9
West Midlands - 2 - - 3
Midlands - 2 - - 3
Work from Home +23 1 - - 3
South East - 1 - - 1

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 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (22.22%) GCP
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Serverless
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Lake
1 4 (44.44%) Delta Lake
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) DB2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (22.22%) Big Data
3 2 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 2 (22.22%) Star Schema
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) ETL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (11.11%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) ETL
2 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Data Modelling
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Transpiler
6 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Scala
3 2 (22.22%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
1 1 (11.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 5 (55.56%) Talend
3 4 (44.44%) IBM
3 4 (44.44%) Informatica