IMS/DB Contracts

IBM IMS/DB
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring IMS/DB skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IMS/DB over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 712
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMS/DB 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.002%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.036% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £388 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £475
75th Percentile £463 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

IMS/DB 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
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% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £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 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £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%

IMS/DB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IMS/DB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IMS/DB in the UK

IMS/DB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IMS/DB.

Daily rate trend for IMS/DB in the UK

IMS/DB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IMS/DB.

Hourly rate trend for IMS/DB in the UK

IMS/DB
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IMS/DB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
London - 2 £425 -
England - 2 £425 -
Work from Home - 2 £425 -

IMS/DB
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 (100.00%) JBoss
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) DB2
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) EJB
1 2 (100.00%) J2EE
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) AOP
1 2 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 2 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (100.00%) REXX
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle