ODBC Contracts

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 572 680
Rank change year-on-year +64 +108 +146
Contract jobs citing ODBC 12 10 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.023% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.11% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 32
10th Percentile £470 - £450
25th Percentile £558 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £790 - £650
90th Percentile - - £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +36.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
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 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
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 £74.89 £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 ODBC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ODBC in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ODBC in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ODBC over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ODBC in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ODBC in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
England +59 12 £750 +87.50% 14
London +44 10 £770 +92.50% 7
UK excluding London +61 1 £400 - 8
Work from Home +41 1 £500 - 5
East of England - 1 £400 - 2

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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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) InterSystems Cache
2 3 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (25.00%) MS Access
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) NonStop SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) JDBC
2 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 4 (33.33%) LDAP
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) SAML
2 4 (33.33%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Clustering
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) PACS
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
2 1 (8.33%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) SDLC
2 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Transformation
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata Management
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) VB
2 4 (33.33%) VB6
3 2 (16.67%) MUMPS
3 2 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) InterSystems
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) OpenText
1 4 (33.33%) Qualtrics
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) IBM