ODBC Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ODBC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.069% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.46% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £414 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £518 - -
England median daily rate £448 £750 -
% change year-on-year -40.33% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 648 384 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.83% 18.70% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 278 288
10th Percentile £372 £305 £288
25th Percentile £413 £368 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.83% +2.79%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £621
90th Percentile £645 £638 £716
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 18
10th Percentile £13.95 - £10.90
25th Percentile £26.03 £33.91 £14.16
Median hourly rate £58.00 £41.96 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.24% +59.83% -
75th Percentile £65.12 £50.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £57.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

ODBC job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ODBC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ODBC

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ODBC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ODBC

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
West Midlands - 3 £470 - 2
ODBC
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Ingres
1 2 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
1 2 (66.67%) COM
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (33.33%) ATDD
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
1 2 (66.67%) VB6
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Actian
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow