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 24 August 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
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 342 355
Rank change year-on-year -73 +13 +47
Contract jobs citing Sybase 30 27 44
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.35% 0.43% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 30
10th Percentile £450 £414 £513
25th Percentile £525 £508 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £606
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +15.46% +3.19%
75th Percentile £625 £797 £668
90th Percentile £850 £813 £779
England median daily rate £600 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +6.48%

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 8,551 6,214 7,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.63% 46.09% 43.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,566 4,020 4,685
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -4.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 128 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -6.90% -21.53%
75th Percentile £62.75 £39.06 £61.39
90th Percentile £82.00 £63.40 £76.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.24%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -18 2 £610 +26.45%
South London - 1 £600 -
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 3 (10.00%) MTS
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 11 (36.67%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 5 (16.67%) IaaS
3 5 (16.67%) PaaS
3 5 (16.67%) SaaS
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) NAS
1 5 (16.67%) SAN
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) Firewall
2 4 (13.33%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.33%) Multicast
3 1 (3.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (23.33%) Sybase ASE
4 6 (20.00%) Db2
5 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.67%) MySQL
7 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 5 (16.67%) Maven
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.67%) Gradle
3 2 (6.67%) Mocha
3 2 (6.67%) MSTest
3 2 (6.67%) tSQLt
4 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.33%) GitLab
4 1 (3.33%) JUnit
4 1 (3.33%) Mockito
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
3 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 6 (20.00%) Front Office
5 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 3 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Law
7 2 (6.67%) Prime Brokerage
8 1 (3.33%) Back Office
8 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Developer
2 10 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Sybase Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Incident Manager
4 5 (16.67%) Major Incident Manager
4 5 (16.67%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) Messaging Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Python Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Support
6 3 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Production Manager
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Support Manager
7 2 (6.67%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (6.67%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) Spring
2 6 (20.00%) Middleware
2 6 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (16.67%) Kafka
3 5 (16.67%) LDAP
4 4 (13.33%) RESTful
4 4 (13.33%) RxJava
5 3 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (6.67%) .NET
6 2 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (6.67%) CSS
6 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (6.67%) HTML
6 2 (6.67%) Java Concurrency
6 2 (6.67%) Rendezvous
6 2 (6.67%) REST
6 2 (6.67%) Terraform
6 2 (6.67%) Web Services
7 1 (3.33%) FpML
7 1 (3.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (23.33%) Fixed Income
3 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (16.67%) Mainframe
4 4 (13.33%) PKI
5 2 (6.67%) Equities
5 2 (6.67%) Replication
6 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.33%) Eurex
6 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Linux
2 14 (46.67%) Unix
3 10 (33.33%) Windows
4 4 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) DevOps
2 8 (26.67%) Agile
2 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (26.67%) Electronic Trading
2 8 (26.67%) Low Latency
2 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (23.33%) Multithreading
4 6 (20.00%) ITIL
4 6 (20.00%) Microservices
4 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
5 5 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 4 (13.33%) Concurrent Programming
6 4 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (13.33%) Impact Analysis
6 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 4 (13.33%) Operational Stability
6 4 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (63.33%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 11 (36.67%) Python
4 8 (26.67%) Shell Script
5 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (10.00%) Tcl
7 2 (6.67%) C#
7 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.33%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.33%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.33%) Korn
8 1 (3.33%) Perl
8 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (3.33%) RHCSA
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 5 (16.67%) NFS
2 4 (13.33%) Docker
3 3 (10.00%) GridGain
4 2 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.33%) CA Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) Ansible
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Greenplum
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
1 5 (16.67%) Solace
2 3 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 3 (10.00%) ION Trading
2 3 (10.00%) MarketAxess
2 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.00%) Tradeweb
3 2 (6.67%) IBM
3 2 (6.67%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) SAP