Firebird Contract Job Trends in England

Firebird
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Firebird skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Firebird 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.003% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 - -

All Database & BI Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,752 4,825 6,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.23% 18.77% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,003 3,281 4,337
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £663
90th Percentile £700 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 85 154
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.68
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.21
UK median hourly rate £53.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.73% -10.33% -22.73%

Firebird
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Firebird job vacancy trend in England

Firebird
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebird.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebird

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebird.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Firebird

Firebird
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Firebird within the England region over the 6 months to 27 February 2026. 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
North East - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
Firebird
UK

Firebird
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL