Adabas Contracts

Software AG Adabas
UK

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 595 710
Rank change year-on-year +78 +115 +137
Contract jobs citing Adabas 2 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.011% 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.036% 0.068% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £430 £301
25th Percentile £310 £475 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £500 £313
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% +60.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £330 £525 £324
90th Percentile - £555 £328
UK excluding London median daily rate - £500 £330
% change year-on-year - +51.52% -24.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Adabas falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Adabas
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Adabas as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Adabas in the UK

Adabas
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Adabas.

Daily rate trend for Adabas in the UK

Adabas
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Adabas.

Hourly rate trend for Adabas in the UK

Adabas
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Adabas within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Work from Home +51 2 £320 -20.00%
UK excluding London +54 1 - -
Wales +5 1 - -

Adabas
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (50.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Adabas Natural Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) COBOL Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DB2 Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Migration Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Natural
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JCL
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) IBM