JDBC Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring JDBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 124 120
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing JDBC 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.14% 0.12% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.42% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £631 £484 £546
25th Percentile £658 £497 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.02% -10.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £773 £572 £616
90th Percentile £800 £581 £618
Central London median daily rate £715 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +33.02% -10.42% +33.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

JDBC 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 546 480 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.53% 27.86% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 332 354
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £465 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -2.44%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £708
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.13% -0.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.73 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £37.44 £67.50 £36.75
Median hourly rate £39.75 £75.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.00% +94.81% -23.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £82.50 £40.25
90th Percentile £42.58 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £52.25 £62.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -16.40% +62.34% -23.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JDBC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

JDBC job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JDBC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JDBC

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JDBC in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JDBC in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JDBC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JDBC

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Jakarta EE
2 1 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (33.33%) SAML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) PLM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Korn
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CISM
1 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Netcool
1 1 (33.33%) Netcool/OMNIbus
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) PTC
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Workday
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