DataStage Job Trends

IBM InfoSphere DataStage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring DataStage skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 628 714 695
Rank change year-on-year +86 -19 +315
Permanent jobs citing DataStage 16 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.004% 0.012%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.24% 0.020% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £67,100 £61,000 -
25th Percentile £106,250 £62,500 £110,891
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £67,500 £117,414
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -42.51% +108.16%
75th Percentile £118,750 £75,000 £123,937
90th Percentile - £78,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £60,000 £117,414
% change year-on-year - -48.90% +108.16%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK

DataStage falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,640 9,900 10,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 11.22% 17.85% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4,210 5,626 8,263
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,759 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +4.60% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £95,050
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -

DataStage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DataStage job vacancy trend in the UK

DataStage
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DataStage.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DataStage

DataStage
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DataStage over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DataStage in the UK

DataStage
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DataStage within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +82 16 £112,500 +66.67% 4
London - 16 £112,500 - 4
Work from Home +76 4 £112,500 +50.00% 2

DataStage
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) AWS
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
1 15 (93.75%) GCP
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (25.00%) Alation
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
3 4 (25.00%) GitHub
3 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (68.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 11 (68.75%) Big Data
2 11 (68.75%) DynamoDB
2 11 (68.75%) Hadoop
2 11 (68.75%) MongoDB
2 11 (68.75%) MySQL
2 11 (68.75%) Neo4j
2 11 (68.75%) NoSQL
2 11 (68.75%) Pentaho
2 11 (68.75%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (68.75%) RDBMS
2 11 (68.75%) Relational Database
2 11 (68.75%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 4 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (25.00%) Metadata
3 4 (25.00%) Power BI
3 4 (25.00%) QlikView
3 4 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) ER Studio
1 4 (25.00%) ERwin
1 4 (25.00%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 15 (93.75%) Finance
2 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (68.75%) Law
4 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Retail
4 4 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 4 (25.00%) GCP Architect
2 4 (25.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (25.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
3 1 (6.25%) DataStage Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Junior
3 1 (6.25%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) XML
1 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (93.75%) Management Information System
2 11 (68.75%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (68.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (68.75%) Product Ownership
3 4 (25.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Analytics
1 15 (93.75%) Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) CI/CD
1 15 (93.75%) Data Governance
1 15 (93.75%) Data Modelling
1 15 (93.75%) Data Pipeline
1 15 (93.75%) Data Science
1 15 (93.75%) ETL
1 15 (93.75%) Roadmaps
2 12 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (75.00%) Data Engineering
3 11 (68.75%) Benchmarking
3 11 (68.75%) Collaborative Culture
3 11 (68.75%) Data Ingestion
3 11 (68.75%) Data Integration
3 11 (68.75%) Fintech
3 11 (68.75%) Product Roadmap
3 11 (68.75%) Product Strategy
3 11 (68.75%) Product Thinking
3 11 (68.75%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
1 11 (68.75%) Python
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) DBS Check
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (93.75%) Informatica
2 11 (68.75%) Oracle
2 11 (68.75%) Talend
3 4 (25.00%) Databricks
3 4 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (25.00%) IBM