ODBC Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ODBC 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.12% - 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.58% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

ODBC falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 171 131 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 20.68% 21.20% 17.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 78 94
10th Percentile £413 £400 £245
25th Percentile £475 £441 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £525 £456
% change year-on-year - +15.07% -13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.05% +57.14% -

ODBC
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ODBC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

ODBC job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ODBC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ODBC

ODBC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) ATDD
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow