Sybase Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Sybase
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Sybase products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sybase over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Sybase, Inc.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 123 114
Rank change year-on-year -16 -9 +35
Contract jobs citing Sybase 2 2 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.092% 0.11% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.20% 0.23% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £582
25th Percentile - - £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.00%
75th Percentile - - £963
90th Percentile - - £1,210
Central London median daily rate - - £750
% change year-on-year - - +30.43%

All Vendors
City of London

Sybase falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 997 858 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.67% 49.31% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 582 591
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £450 £414 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £538 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -0.23% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.82 £16.75
25th Percentile £19.31 £21.54 £22.13
Median hourly rate £23.58 £28.33 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.75% -43.35% +140.96%
75th Percentile £38.69 £58.50 £112.00
90th Percentile £55.95 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.33 £42.00
% change year-on-year -7.75% -32.56% +102.41%

Sybase
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Sybase 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 Sybase.

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

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Sybase
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Db2
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase ASE
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Enrichment
1 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Statistics
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM