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 17 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 335 342
Rank change year-on-year -71 +7 +63
Contract jobs citing Sybase 31 29 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.36% 0.46% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 29
10th Percentile £450 £414 £509
25th Percentile £525 £464 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £619 £781 £645
90th Percentile £763 £813 £782
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -

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 8,553 6,246 6,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.58% 46.06% 43.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,570 4,057 4,731
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 129 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £40.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%

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 17 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 17 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 -8 3 £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 2 (6.45%) MTS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 8 (25.81%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) GitHub
4 5 (16.13%) IaaS
4 5 (16.13%) PaaS
4 5 (16.13%) SaaS
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (12.90%) Serverless
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.45%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.45%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) NAS
1 5 (16.13%) SAN
2 4 (12.90%) DHCP
2 4 (12.90%) DNS
2 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 4 (12.90%) Kerberos
3 1 (3.23%) Multicast
3 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.81%) Db2
2 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (22.58%) Sybase ASE
4 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.45%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
2 5 (16.13%) Maven
3 3 (9.68%) JUnit
3 3 (9.68%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (6.45%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.45%) Git
4 2 (6.45%) Gradle
4 2 (6.45%) JIRA
4 2 (6.45%) Mocha
4 2 (6.45%) MSTest
4 2 (6.45%) tSQLt
5 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.23%) GitLab
5 1 (3.23%) Mockito
General
1 18 (58.06%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Banking
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Front Office
4 4 (12.90%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Law
6 2 (6.45%) Prime Brokerage
7 1 (3.23%) Back Office
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 12 (38.71%) Java Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Senior
4 6 (19.35%) Sybase Developer
5 5 (16.13%) Incident Manager
5 5 (16.13%) Major Incident Manager
5 5 (16.13%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Messaging Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Python Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Production Manager
7 3 (9.68%) SQL Developer
7 3 (9.68%) Support Manager
8 2 (6.45%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Applications Support Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Developer
8 2 (6.45%) DevOps Manager
8 2 (6.45%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (29.03%) Spring
2 8 (25.81%) Spring Boot
3 7 (22.58%) Kafka
4 6 (19.35%) Middleware
4 6 (19.35%) RESTful
5 5 (16.13%) LDAP
6 4 (12.90%) RxJava
7 3 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (6.45%) .NET
8 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
8 2 (6.45%) CSS
8 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (6.45%) HTML
8 2 (6.45%) Java Concurrency
8 2 (6.45%) Rendezvous
8 2 (6.45%) REST
8 2 (6.45%) Web Services
9 1 (3.23%) EDI
9 1 (3.23%) Jakarta EE
9 1 (3.23%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (19.35%) Fixed Income
3 5 (16.13%) Data Centre
3 5 (16.13%) Mainframe
4 4 (12.90%) PKI
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 2 (6.45%) Equities
5 2 (6.45%) Replication
6 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.23%) Eurex
6 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
6 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Linux
2 14 (45.16%) Unix
3 10 (32.26%) Windows
4 4 (12.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Agile
1 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
1 10 (32.26%) DevOps
2 9 (29.03%) Multithreading
3 8 (25.81%) Low Latency
3 8 (25.81%) Microservices
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (22.58%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (22.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (19.35%) Concurrent Programming
5 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (19.35%) Risk Management
6 5 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven
6 5 (16.13%) Problem Management
7 4 (12.90%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
7 4 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 16 (51.61%) Java
3 11 (35.48%) Python
4 8 (25.81%) Shell Script
5 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
6 3 (9.68%) Bash
7 2 (6.45%) C#
7 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.45%) Tcl
8 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
8 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (3.23%) Korn
8 1 (3.23%) Perl
8 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (3.23%) RHCSA
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.13%) NFS
3 3 (9.68%) GridGain
4 2 (6.45%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.90%) CA Single Sign-On
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Greenplum
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
1 5 (16.13%) Solace
2 3 (9.68%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) Bloomberg
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) ION Trading
3 2 (6.45%) MarketAxess
3 2 (6.45%) TIBCO
3 2 (6.45%) Tradeweb
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow