Hybrid/Remote DataStage Contract Job Trends

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DataStage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 333 396
Rank change year-on-year +35 +63 +174
Contract jobs citing DataStage 6 3 13
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.062% 0.024% 0.068%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.32% 0.12% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 6
10th Percentile £444 £710 £375
25th Percentile £477 £725 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +66.67% -41.94%
75th Percentile £839 £775 £492
90th Percentile £850 £790 £497
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -41.94%

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 1,892 2,466 3,435
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.54% 19.85% 18.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,286 1,712 2,489
10th Percentile £356 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 54
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.90 £19.63
25th Percentile £23.02 £19.88 £23.62
Median hourly rate £63.00 £29.11 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.46% -41.79% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71.25 £41.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £61.27 £75.70
UK median hourly rate £39.48 £33.93 £51.06
% change year-on-year +16.36% -33.54% +2.11%

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DataStage and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DataStage job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DataStage
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataStage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataStage

DataStage
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DataStage over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

DataStage daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

DataStage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (66.67%) Metadata
3 3 (50.00%) Big Data
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (50.00%) Data Vault
3 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 3 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (16.67%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (16.67%) Cognos Report Studio
5 1 (16.67%) DB2
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) ER Studio
1 3 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Modeller
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Cognos Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
3 3 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cognos
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle