Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ODBC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ODBC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 680 814
Rank change year-on-year +92 +134 -148
Contract jobs citing ODBC 10 39 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.065% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 32 15
10th Percentile - £450 £463
25th Percentile - £525 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile - £650 £578
90th Percentile - £698 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate - £650 £491
% change year-on-year - +32.32% +31.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ODBC is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ODBC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ODBC in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ODBC.

Daily rate trend for ODBC in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ODBC.

Hourly rate trend for ODBC in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +101 10 £400 -33.33% 9
London +70 4 £400 -33.33% 7
UK excluding London +66 3 - - 2
North of England - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
Work from Home +119 1 - - 3
Midlands +23 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (10.00%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) OCI
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (40.00%) Tableau
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (30.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (20.00%) SSDT
5 1 (10.00%) Navicat
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Data Science Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) R Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) JDBC
1 4 (40.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Blog
2 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (10.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (10.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Scrum
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) SDLC
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Asset Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (10.00%) Data Encryption
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Sage
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) VMware