ODBC Contracts in the UK excluding London

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ODBC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ODBC over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 382 434
Rank change year-on-year +21 +52 +68
Contract jobs citing ODBC 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.11% 0.15% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £393 - £214
25th Percentile £430 £203 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £205 £243
Median % change year-on-year +148.17% -15.46% -48.95%
75th Percentile £585 £208 £258
90th Percentile £621 - £265
UK median daily rate £630 £205 £600
% change year-on-year +207.32% -65.83% +20.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,736 3,281 4,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.42% 16.08% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,154 3,010
10th Percentile £314 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £411 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £600
90th Percentile £632 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.18% -0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 232 95
10th Percentile £31.25 £24.16 £22.34
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £58.15 £59.03
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -1.49% +7.33%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.75
% change year-on-year - -12.35% +17.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for ODBC 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 ODBC in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ODBC in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ODBC in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ODBC 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 ODBC in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ODBC 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 ODBC within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
South East +31 1 £388 +89.02% 3
South West - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 £630 -
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UK

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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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MS Access
2 1 (33.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum
1 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) VB6
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) R
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) InterSystems
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle