DataStage Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 301 339 463
Rank change year-on-year +38 +124 +134
Contract jobs citing DataStage 3 6 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.039% 0.054%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.14% 0.21% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £444 £378
25th Percentile - £491 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +11.90% +2.94%
75th Percentile - £691 £610
90th Percentile - £741 £649
UK median daily rate £400 £675 £500
% change year-on-year -40.74% +35.00% -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DataStage as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DataStage trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DataStage.

DataStage daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) DB2
2 1 (33.33%) QualityStage
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 2 (66.67%) ETL Development
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Informatica
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) IBM