Informix Contract Job Trends

IBM Informix
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Informix skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 535 591
Rank change year-on-year -64 +56 +135
Contract jobs citing Informix 1 13 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.042% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.015% 0.23% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.85% -5.40% +4.33%
UK excluding London median daily rate - £473 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.40% +4.28%

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Informix 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 6,770 5,741 7,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.30% 18.74% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,666 3,869 5,092
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 93 168
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.97
25th Percentile £29.06 £25.09 £20.98
Median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.62
90th Percentile £85.33 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £29.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.59% -25.25% -27.27%

Informix
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Informix relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Informix job vacancy trend in the UK

Informix
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informix.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informix

Informix
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informix.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Informix

Informix
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Informix within the UK over the 6 months to 27 February 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
London -47 1 £600 +14.29% 1
England -82 1 £600 +14.29% 1

Informix
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Talend