ODBC Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ODBC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.085% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £800 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £801 - -
75th Percentile £801 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £205
% change year-on-year -13.04% +180.49% -56.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 490 471 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 20.87% 29.81% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 284 275
10th Percentile £320 £377 £356
25th Percentile £400 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -0.94%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £564
90th Percentile £642 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% - -6.83%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £36.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £52.50 £61.60
% change year-on-year +23.81% -14.77% -2.99%

ODBC
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ODBC job vacancy trend in Scotland

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ODBC

ODBC
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ODBC

ODBC
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Glasgow - 2 £801 - 2
ODBC
UK

ODBC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) 4G
1 1 (50.00%) 5G
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) Modbus
1 1 (50.00%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Control Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Runbook
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering