JDBC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JDBC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JDBC over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 389 433
Rank change year-on-year +73 +44 +27
Contract jobs citing JDBC 24 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.19% 0.014% 0.048%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.00% 0.090% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile £271 - £426
25th Percentile £452 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 - £613
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £492 - £738
90th Percentile £533 - £750
UK median daily rate £492 £575 £495
% change year-on-year -14.43% +16.16% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

JDBC 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,400 3,323 4,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.57% 16.05% 18.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,667 2,175 3,064
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £568 £608 £600
90th Percentile £638 £692 £688
UK median daily rate £521 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 218 89
10th Percentile £32.79 £22.68 £22.22
25th Percentile £50.80 £43.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.47 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -22.36% +19.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £67.56 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.46 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £48.43 £65.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -25.49% +23.81%

JDBC
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JDBC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JDBC in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JDBC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JDBC in the UK excluding London

JDBC
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JDBC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JDBC in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JDBC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JDBC in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JDBC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
North of England +23 14 £475 - 5
Yorkshire - 8 £550 - 2
North West +13 6 £471 - 3
Midlands - 4 £270 - 5
West Midlands - 3 - - 1
Scotland - 2 £272 - 5
South East - 2 £505 - 4
Wales - 2 £460 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £270 - 3
JDBC
UK

JDBC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 5 (20.83%) NetWeaver
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 5 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) HTTP
2 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 9 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 7 (29.17%) Flink
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) Mercurial
1 2 (8.33%) Subversion
2 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Developer
2 7 (29.17%) Integration Developer
2 7 (29.17%) SAP Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Junior
5 2 (8.33%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Junior Java Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.17%) GCP Architect
6 1 (4.17%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Integration Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Lead
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Architect
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) REST
1 12 (50.00%) SOAP
2 10 (41.67%) Kafka
3 8 (33.33%) EDI
3 8 (33.33%) IDoc
3 8 (33.33%) XSLT
4 7 (29.17%) Apache Beam
4 7 (29.17%) Spark Streaming
5 6 (25.00%) XML
6 5 (20.83%) JMS
6 5 (20.83%) Middleware
6 5 (20.83%) SAP PI
7 4 (16.67%) J2EE
8 3 (12.50%) OAuth
8 3 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 3 (12.50%) OpenID
8 3 (12.50%) Spring
9 2 (8.33%) JSON
9 2 (8.33%) PySpark
9 2 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Legacy Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Virtual Team
2 3 (12.50%) PKI
2 3 (12.50%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
2 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (37.50%) High Availability
2 9 (37.50%) Scrum
3 8 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Event-Driven
4 7 (29.17%) SDLC
5 5 (20.83%) Performance Testing
5 5 (20.83%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Open Source
7 3 (12.50%) API Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Coaching
7 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
7 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 8 (33.33%) ABAP
2 8 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
4 3 (12.50%) Groovy
5 2 (8.33%) Python
6 1 (4.17%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SAP Certification
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (12.50%) ForgeRock
2 3 (12.50%) Ping Identity
3 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Solace