Sybase Contract Job Trends

Sybase
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sybase products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sybase over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, 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 Sybase, Inc.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 491 517
Rank change year-on-year -48 +26 +114
Contract jobs citing Sybase 43 52 91
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.32% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 36
10th Percentile £473 £426 £433
25th Percentile £501 £490 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -12.07%
75th Percentile £633 £675 £688
90th Percentile £650 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.91% +22.22%

All Vendors
UK

Sybase 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 17,187 16,208 20,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.37% 45.39% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 9,626 13,106
10th Percentile £290 £290 £255
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 864 500 679
10th Percentile £15.23 £15.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.09 £18.69 £19.88
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.35 £62.51 £64.70
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

Sybase
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sybase job vacancy trend in the UK

Sybase
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sybase over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sybase in the UK

Sybase
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Sybase
Top 9 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 +17 30 £494 -1.50% 1
England -48 29 £575 -4.17% 4
London -9 25 £605 +0.83% 2
UK excluding London -36 18 £500 +2.04% 2
Scotland +10 14 £500 +5.26%
South East -16 2 £550 -20.00% 1
North of England - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £488 - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Sybase
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 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) AWS
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (11.63%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (11.63%) Serverless
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
3 4 (9.30%) AWS CodeBuild
4 2 (4.65%) Azure
5 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (74.42%) DB2
2 31 (72.09%) Relational Database
3 27 (62.79%) MongoDB
4 8 (18.60%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) RDBMS
6 4 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (9.30%) Oracle Database
7 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.33%) Big Data
8 1 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 33 (76.74%) JUnit
2 5 (11.63%) Maven
3 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (4.65%) Git
5 2 (4.65%) GitLab
6 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.33%) Hudson
6 1 (2.33%) JIRA
6 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 37 (86.05%) Social Skills
2 32 (74.42%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (74.42%) Banking
3 31 (72.09%) Finance
4 30 (69.77%) Investment Banking
5 16 (37.21%) Front Office
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 38 (88.37%) Developer
2 36 (83.72%) Java Developer
3 26 (60.47%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 26 (60.47%) SQL Developer
4 19 (44.19%) Senior
4 19 (44.19%) Senior Developer
4 19 (44.19%) Senior Java Developer
5 13 (30.23%) Linux Developer
5 13 (30.23%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 13 (30.23%) Senior SQL Developer
5 13 (30.23%) Sybase Developer
6 5 (11.63%) AWS Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) DBA
7 2 (4.65%) Oracle DBA
8 1 (2.33%) .NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Database Specialist
8 1 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Sybase Database Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (76.74%) Spring
2 32 (74.42%) Kafka
3 28 (65.12%) JMS
4 6 (13.95%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
5 2 (4.65%) Java Concurrency
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (2.33%) .NET
6 1 (2.33%) Bootstrap
6 1 (2.33%) CSS
6 1 (2.33%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (2.33%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.33%) HTML
6 1 (2.33%) HTML5
6 1 (2.33%) Jest
6 1 (2.33%) NgRx
6 1 (2.33%) React
6 1 (2.33%) REST
6 1 (2.33%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (60.47%) Data Structures
1 26 (60.47%) Equities
2 1 (2.33%) Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (2.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.33%) Replication
2 1 (2.33%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 34 (79.07%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (83.72%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (79.07%) Agile
3 31 (72.09%) SDLC
4 30 (69.77%) Performance Tuning
5 27 (62.79%) Database Tuning
6 26 (60.47%) Multithreading
6 26 (60.47%) Open Source
7 5 (11.63%) Code Quality
7 5 (11.63%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (11.63%) Integration Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Microservices
8 4 (9.30%) CI/CD
8 4 (9.30%) Clean Code
8 4 (9.30%) DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Secrets Management
9 3 (6.98%) Low Latency
10 2 (4.65%) Containerisation
10 2 (4.65%) Electronic Trading
10 2 (4.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (4.65%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (86.05%) SQL
2 36 (83.72%) Java
3 30 (69.77%) Shell Script
4 28 (65.12%) Python
5 3 (6.98%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.33%) C#
7 1 (2.33%) Perl
7 1 (2.33%) Tcl
7 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (4.65%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Data Guard
2 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (2.33%) Ansible
3 1 (2.33%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Oracle
2 4 (9.30%) CA Agile Central
3 3 (6.98%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.98%) Solace
4 2 (4.65%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.33%) IFS