IMS/DB Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IBM IMS/DB
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 302 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMS/DB 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.095% - 0.020%
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 median daily rate £425 - £475

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

IMS/DB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IMS/DB trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IMS/DB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IMS/DB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IMS/DB
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:

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