ODBC Contract Job Trends in London

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 364 399
Rank change year-on-year -4 +35 +149
Contract jobs citing ODBC 12 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.083% 0.059% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.32% 0.23% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £531 £272 £334
25th Percentile £561 £350 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +52.00% - -27.27%
75th Percentile £610 £529 -
90th Percentile £635 £602 -
England median daily rate £575 £310 £270
% change year-on-year +85.48% +14.81% -48.57%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,782 3,902 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.28% 25.66% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,556 2,548 3,677
10th Percentile £359 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £663 £708 £700
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 30
10th Percentile £33.79 £34.83 £31.77
25th Percentile £43.13 £37.88 £36.40
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -9.30% -17.31%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.13 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.80 £71.90 £78.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -2.40% +19.05% -19.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ODBC job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ODBC

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ODBC in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ODBC in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ODBC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ODBC

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
Central London - 2 £538 -
ODBC
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (100.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 12 (100.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Architect
1 10 (83.33%) ServiceNow Architect
2 9 (75.00%) Senior
3 8 (66.67%) Senior Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 12 (100.00%) Apache Camel
1 12 (100.00%) HTML
1 12 (100.00%) HTML5
1 12 (100.00%) JDBC
1 12 (100.00%) jQuery
1 12 (100.00%) JSON
1 12 (100.00%) LDAP
1 12 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (100.00%) REST
1 12 (100.00%) SAML
1 12 (100.00%) SOAP
1 12 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
1 12 (100.00%) DevOps
1 12 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 12 (100.00%) ITSM
1 12 (100.00%) Microservices
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
2 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (8.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (8.33%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (8.33%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) BMC
1 12 (100.00%) HP
1 12 (100.00%) Ivanti
1 12 (100.00%) Remedy
1 12 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft