JDBC Contracts

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 484 554 660
Rank change year-on-year +70 +106 +60
Contract jobs citing JDBC 35 46 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.11% 0.089%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.51% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 23 36
10th Percentile £426 £550 £438
25th Percentile £455 £566 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £587 £619 £599
90th Percentile £780 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £606
% change year-on-year - - +15.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £45.88 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £45.88 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,629 8,962 13,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.67% 20.56% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,551 6,219 10,140
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 231 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £75.00 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JDBC in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JDBC in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JDBC over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JDBC in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JDBC in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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
England +58 30 £499 -18.61% 13
UK excluding London +72 22 £475 - 8
Work from Home +44 13 £466 -21.52% 16
North of England +38 13 £475 - 5
London +22 12 £716 +16.90% 7
North West +17 9 £475 - 3
Yorkshire - 4 £550 - 2
Midlands +26 3 - - 1
West Midlands +18 3 - - 1
South East - 2 £505 -
Wales - 2 £460 -
Scotland - 2 £272 - 1

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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 7 (20.00%) NetWeaver
2 5 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 4 (11.43%) Apache
4 2 (5.71%) JBoss
4 2 (5.71%) WebSphere
4 2 (5.71%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (17.14%) Amazon S3
3 4 (11.43%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (8.57%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Azure
6 1 (2.86%) AWS
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) HTTP
2 7 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 4 (11.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
3 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Flink
4 2 (5.71%) DB2
4 2 (5.71%) IMS/DB
4 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.86%) CockroachDB
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Cucumber
1 3 (8.57%) Selenium
2 2 (5.71%) Eclipse
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Maven
2 2 (5.71%) Mercurial
2 2 (5.71%) Subversion
General
1 4 (11.43%) Banking
2 3 (8.57%) Finance
2 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Investment Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Integration Developer
2 9 (25.71%) SAP Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Architect
4 5 (14.29%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) ForgeRock Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Junior
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Junior Java Developer
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Support Specialist
7 1 (2.86%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Architect
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Data Architect
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (68.57%) SOAP
2 17 (48.57%) REST
3 13 (37.14%) XML
4 12 (34.29%) XSLT
5 10 (28.57%) EDI
5 10 (28.57%) IDoc
6 9 (25.71%) Middleware
7 8 (22.86%) Web Services
8 7 (20.00%) JMS
8 7 (20.00%) SAP PI
9 6 (17.14%) OAuth
9 6 (17.14%) OAuth2
9 6 (17.14%) OpenID
10 5 (14.29%) J2EE
10 5 (14.29%) JSON
10 5 (14.29%) Kafka
10 5 (14.29%) ODBC
11 4 (11.43%) LDAP
11 4 (11.43%) SAML
12 3 (8.57%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 6 (17.14%) PKI
2 6 (17.14%) Taxonomies
3 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Clustering
5 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.57%) Unix
2 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) Scrum
3 12 (34.29%) SDLC
4 7 (20.00%) API Integration
4 7 (20.00%) Coaching
4 7 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 7 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
4 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (20.00%) Open Source
4 7 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 7 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 7 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
4 7 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (17.14%) Analytics
5 6 (17.14%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (17.14%) Identity Management
6 5 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (14.29%) Event-Driven
6 5 (14.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (68.57%) Java
2 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
3 10 (28.57%) ABAP
4 7 (20.00%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.57%) Groovy
6 3 (8.57%) Python
7 2 (5.71%) REXX
8 1 (2.86%) COBOL
8 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) SAP Certification
1 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (5.71%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (31.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) SAP
2 7 (20.00%) ForgeRock
3 6 (17.14%) Ping Identity
4 4 (11.43%) OpenText
4 4 (11.43%) Qualtrics
5 3 (8.57%) Oracle
6 2 (5.71%) IBM
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
6 2 (5.71%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow