ODBC Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ODBC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.30% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £476 - -
25th Percentile £485 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £470 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 83 20 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 12.43% 14.60% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 17 1
10th Percentile £400 £401 -
25th Percentile £420 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +2.78% -21.40%
75th Percentile £500 £538 -
90th Percentile £669 £539 -
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.75% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.33 - -
Median hourly rate £60.67 - -
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £59.33 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +18.67% +25.00% -

ODBC
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

ODBC job vacancy trend in Shropshire

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing ODBC

ODBC
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ODBC within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Telford - 2 £500 - 1
ODBC
West Midlands

ODBC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Ingres
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 2 (100.00%) ADO
1 2 (100.00%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Actian