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 11 July 2026, 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 456 525
Rank change year-on-year -139 +69 +40
Contract jobs citing Sybase 67 97 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.30% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.31% 0.63% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 54 44
10th Percentile £410 £408 £450
25th Percentile £475 £423 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £614 £575 £715
90th Percentile £623 £677 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -17.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £52.30 - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £53.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £54.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £55.20 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - -21.13%

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 21,810 15,429 18,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.24% 47.54% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,572 9,456 11,571
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 733 1,125
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.39% +0.60% -38.34%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.18
% change year-on-year +43.61% -6.41% -20.72%

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 11 July 2026.

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 11 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 11 July 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 -112 47 £535 +4.49% 2
London -57 32 £545 +3.32% 2
UK excluding London -134 28 £488 -2.50% 2
Work from Home -96 14 £525 +2.44% 1
Scotland -35 13 - - 1
East of England -19 7 - -
North West -59 6 £450 -1.85%
North of England -81 6 £450 -1.85%
Northern Ireland +5 1 - -
Midlands -58 1 £525 -
East Midlands - 1 £525 -

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 11 (16.42%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 11 (16.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (31.34%) AWS
2 18 (26.87%) Azure
3 15 (22.39%) GitHub
4 13 (19.40%) ChatGPT
5 11 (16.42%) Anthropic Claude
6 10 (14.93%) GitHub Copilot
7 7 (10.45%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (10.45%) Serverless
8 6 (8.96%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (8.96%) IaaS
8 6 (8.96%) PaaS
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.97%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (5.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) NAS
1 4 (5.97%) SAN
2 3 (4.48%) DHCP
2 3 (4.48%) DNS
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
2 3 (4.48%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.49%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (44.78%) SQL Server
2 23 (34.33%) Db2
3 21 (31.34%) Sybase ASE
4 17 (25.37%) Relational Database
5 12 (17.91%) MongoDB
6 11 (16.42%) Metadata
6 11 (16.42%) SAP HANA
7 10 (14.93%) MaxDB
7 10 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (5.97%) NoSQL
10 3 (4.48%) MySQL
10 3 (4.48%) RDBMS
11 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
11 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
12 1 (1.49%) DTS
12 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.46%) JUnit
2 5 (7.46%) Maven
3 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.48%) Mocha
3 3 (4.48%) MSTest
3 3 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (4.48%) tSQLt
4 2 (2.99%) Git
4 2 (2.99%) GitLab
4 2 (2.99%) Gradle
5 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.49%) Hudson
5 1 (1.49%) Mockito
5 1 (1.49%) PowerBuilder
General
1 37 (55.22%) Finance
2 31 (46.27%) Social Skills
3 22 (32.84%) Banking
4 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (20.90%) Investment Banking
6 12 (17.91%) Front Office
7 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.99%) Law
8 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (43.28%) Developer
2 19 (28.36%) Java Developer
3 11 (16.42%) SAP Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) SAP Support
3 11 (16.42%) Senior
3 11 (16.42%) Support Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Python Developer
4 10 (14.93%) SAP Basis Support
5 8 (11.94%) DBA
5 8 (11.94%) Sybase DBA
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Sybase Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Incident Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Major Incident Manager
7 4 (5.97%) Messaging Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Electronic Trading Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Electronic Trading Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) Spring
2 12 (17.91%) Spring Boot
3 11 (16.42%) SAP Basis
4 10 (14.93%) Kafka
5 8 (11.94%) RESTful
6 6 (8.96%) LDAP
6 6 (8.96%) SAP Fiori
6 6 (8.96%) SAPUI5
7 5 (7.46%) Middleware
8 4 (5.97%) .NET
8 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
8 4 (5.97%) REST
8 4 (5.97%) RxJava
8 4 (5.97%) Web Services
9 3 (4.48%) CSS
9 3 (4.48%) HTML
9 3 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.48%) SAML
10 2 (2.99%) JMS
10 2 (2.99%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Equity Derivative
2 10 (14.93%) Derivative
3 8 (11.94%) Replication
4 7 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (7.46%) Equities
5 5 (7.46%) Fixed Income
6 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
6 4 (5.97%) Mainframe
7 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
7 3 (4.48%) PKI
8 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.99%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.49%) Clustering
9 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (47.76%) Linux
2 29 (43.28%) Unix
3 19 (28.36%) Windows
4 3 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (44.78%) CI/CD
2 20 (29.85%) Performance Tuning
3 18 (26.87%) TDD
4 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (23.88%) BDD
6 15 (22.39%) Agile
6 15 (22.39%) DevOps
6 15 (22.39%) Risk Management
7 14 (20.90%) Migration
8 13 (19.40%) High Availability
8 13 (19.40%) LLM
9 12 (17.91%) AI
9 12 (17.91%) Microservices
10 11 (16.42%) Data Lineage
10 11 (16.42%) Multithreading
10 11 (16.42%) Test Automation
11 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (13.43%) Low Latency
12 9 (13.43%) Metadata Management
13 8 (11.94%) Concurrent Programming
Programming Languages
1 40 (59.70%) SQL
2 32 (47.76%) Python
3 30 (44.78%) Java
4 11 (16.42%) Shell Script
5 9 (13.43%) C++
6 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.46%) Perl
7 5 (7.46%) T-SQL
8 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
9 3 (4.48%) Bash
9 3 (4.48%) C#
10 1 (1.49%) Korn
10 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.49%) Scala
10 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
2 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.97%) NFS
4 3 (4.48%) GridGain
5 2 (2.99%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.45%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Grafana
4 3 (4.48%) CA Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.48%) Terraform
5 2 (2.99%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (32.84%) Oracle
2 11 (16.42%) IBM
2 11 (16.42%) SAP
3 5 (7.46%) Solace
4 4 (5.97%) Greenplum
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.48%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.99%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.99%) Murex
6 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.99%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.49%) BMC
7 1 (1.49%) Google
7 1 (1.49%) IFS
7 1 (1.49%) Remedy
7 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow