Actian Contract Job Trends

Actian
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Actian products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actian over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Actian.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 519 -
Rank change year-on-year -75 - -
Contract jobs citing Actian 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £421 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - -
75th Percentile £462 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 - -

All Vendors
UK

Actian falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,656 14,524 19,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.67% 46.18% 43.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,356 8,591 12,291
10th Percentile £300 £284 £251
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 426 884
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £30.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -8.26% +5.22%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.31 £59.95
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.16% -16.67% +20.00%

Actian
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Actian job vacancy trend in the UK

Actian
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Actian

Actian
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Actian within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 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
England -69 1 £442 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £442 - 2
Midlands - 1 £442 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £442 - 2

Actian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle