Sybase Contract Job Trends in London

Sybase
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 31 May 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
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 309 333
Rank change year-on-year -80 +24 +94
Contract jobs citing Sybase 26 33 60
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.27% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.59% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 41
10th Percentile £376 £413 £450
25th Percentile £506 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% -8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £619 £750 £688
90th Percentile £659 £813 £775
England median daily rate £545 £506 £600
% change year-on-year +7.81% -15.75% -14.29%

All Vendors
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,719 5,584 7,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.79% 45.56% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,087 3,621 4,933
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +1.40% -5.70%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 103 130
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.46 £22.39 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year +24.56% +20.51% -15.54%
75th Percentile £51.50 £42.75 £38.25
90th Percentile £79.75 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.06 £23.22
% change year-on-year +20.09% +16.57% -41.30%

Sybase
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Sybase job vacancy trend in London

Sybase
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sybase

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sybase in London over the 6 months to 31 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sybase in London

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Sybase

Sybase
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 Sybase within the London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Central London -17 2 £610 +35.44% 1
South London -11 1 £600 - 1
Sybase
England

Sybase
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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) AWS
2 6 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (23.08%) Serverless
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub
3 5 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon S3
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (11.54%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (11.54%) Azure
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Multicast
1 1 (3.85%) NAS
1 1 (3.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 8 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (23.08%) DB2
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (19.23%) Sybase ASE
5 4 (15.38%) NoSQL
6 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
7 2 (7.69%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.85%) Big Data
8 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.85%) MySQL
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) JUnit
3 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) Git
5 2 (7.69%) GitLab
5 2 (7.69%) Mocha
5 2 (7.69%) MSTest
5 2 (7.69%) tSQLt
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 10 (38.46%) Banking
3 9 (34.62%) Social Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Investment Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Front Office
6 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Developer
2 12 (46.15%) Java Developer
3 9 (34.62%) Senior
4 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 6 (23.08%) Senior Java Developer
5 4 (15.38%) Sybase Developer
6 3 (11.54%) AWS Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Messaging Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) SQL Developer
7 2 (7.69%) DBA
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Environment Manager
7 2 (7.69%) GCP Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Sybase DBA
7 2 (7.69%) Sybase Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Spring
2 8 (30.77%) Spring Boot
3 7 (26.92%) Kafka
3 7 (26.92%) RESTful
4 4 (15.38%) REST
5 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 3 (11.54%) RxJava
5 3 (11.54%) Web Services
6 2 (7.69%) .NET
6 2 (7.69%) CSS
6 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (7.69%) HTML
6 2 (7.69%) Java Concurrency
6 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.85%) LDAP
7 1 (3.85%) Middleware
7 1 (3.85%) React
7 1 (3.85%) Rendezvous
7 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Equities
1 4 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Unix
3 5 (19.23%) Windows
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
1 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) Multithreading
3 9 (34.62%) Microservices
4 8 (30.77%) DevOps
5 7 (26.92%) Concurrent Programming
5 7 (26.92%) Low Latency
5 7 (26.92%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) Event-Driven
6 5 (19.23%) Integration Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) Design Patterns
7 4 (15.38%) Electronic Trading
7 4 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Risk Management
7 4 (15.38%) Scrum
7 4 (15.38%) SDLC
7 4 (15.38%) TDD
8 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 15 (57.69%) Java
3 9 (34.62%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) Shell Script
5 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
6 2 (7.69%) C#
7 1 (3.85%) Korn
7 1 (3.85%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) Scala
7 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Developer
1 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) GridGain
3 2 (7.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Solace
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) Murex
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.85%) Greenplum
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) TIBCO