Sybase ASE Contract Job Trends

Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sybase ASE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 597 532 573
Rank change year-on-year -65 +41 +187
Contract jobs citing Sybase ASE 4 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.016% 0.048%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.059% 0.088% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 14
10th Percentile £358 - £550
25th Percentile £415 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £534 £675
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -20.89% +42.11%
75th Percentile £605 - £790
90th Percentile £662 - £815
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - -
Median hourly rate £53.75 - -
75th Percentile £54.69 - -
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 - -

All Database & BI Skills
UK

Sybase ASE 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 6,735 5,690 7,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.31% 18.68% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,645 3,833 5,098
10th Percentile £342 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £763 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 92 167
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.96
25th Percentile £28.93 £25.21 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.25 £38.31 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% -9.87% -22.73%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.48 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -25.00% -27.27%

Sybase ASE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sybase ASE job vacancy trend in the UK

Sybase ASE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sybase ASE

Sybase ASE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sybase ASE over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Sybase ASE in the UK

Sybase ASE
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sybase ASE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sybase ASE

Sybase ASE
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 Sybase ASE within the UK over the 6 months to 25 February 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 -77 4 £510 -4.49% 2
London -52 2 £510 -4.49% 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
UK excluding London - 2 - - 1

Sybase ASE
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SAP HANA
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MaxDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase Database Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Database Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Basis Support
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Database Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Sybase DBA
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase DBA
2 1 (25.00%) Sybase Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Basis
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (25.00%) SAPUI5
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (50.00%) High Availability
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) SAP Security
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Sybase
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle