Sybase Contracts

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 May 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 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 511 604
Rank change year-on-year +87 +93 +121
Contract jobs citing Sybase 89 75 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.17% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.64% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 55
10th Percentile £408 £480 £475
25th Percentile £423 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -17.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £575 £691 £773
90th Percentile £700 £750 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £693 £550
% change year-on-year -28.43% +26.00% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £62.84
25th Percentile - £51.25 £63.83
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year - -21.13% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £52.50 £66.56
% 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 13,816 18,264 24,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.56% 42.47% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,631 11,330 16,673
10th Percentile £281 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £619 £630 £644
90th Percentile £715 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,110 685
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.11 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

Sybase
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sybase in the UK

Sybase
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sybase in the UK

Sybase
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Sybase in the UK

Sybase
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sybase in the UK

Sybase
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 Sybase within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London +90 54 £496 -28.43% 24
England +59 52 £522 -13.00% 21
Work from Home +70 48 £538 -6.52% 10
Scotland +39 36 £500 -27.85% 7
London +14 35 £550 -8.33% 11
North of England +32 12 £424 - 2
North West - 12 £424 - 2
South East - 3 £525 - 4
Midlands +19 1 - - 8
West Midlands +18 1 - - 8
East of England - 1 £488 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £500 - 2

Sybase
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 4 (4.49%) Apache
1 4 (4.49%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) MQSeries
3 2 (2.25%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.12%) SAS
Business Applications
1 13 (14.61%) Kondor
2 3 (3.37%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 7 (7.87%) GCP
4 6 (6.74%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.37%) GitHub
6 2 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.25%) IaaS
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.25%) PaaS
6 2 (2.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.25%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.25%) Rubrik
6 2 (2.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.12%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.12%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.37%) SAN
2 2 (2.25%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (2.25%) Firewall
2 2 (2.25%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.12%) DHCP
3 1 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.12%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.12%) NAS
3 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (60.67%) Relational Database
2 51 (57.30%) DB2
3 50 (56.18%) MongoDB
4 20 (22.47%) SQL Server
5 12 (13.48%) RDBMS
6 6 (6.74%) Oracle Database
7 4 (4.49%) Big Data
7 4 (4.49%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.49%) Sybase ASE
8 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.37%) Sybase IQ
9 2 (2.25%) Power BI
10 1 (1.12%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.12%) MySQL
10 1 (1.12%) Oracle Database 12c
10 1 (1.12%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (49.44%) JUnit
2 4 (4.49%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.49%) JIRA
2 4 (4.49%) Maven
2 4 (4.49%) TeamCity
3 3 (3.37%) Git
3 3 (3.37%) Gradle
3 3 (3.37%) Subversion
4 2 (2.25%) Eclipse
4 2 (2.25%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.12%) Ant
5 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.12%) Hudson
5 1 (1.12%) Mockito
5 1 (1.12%) Serena SBM
5 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (73.03%) Finance
2 57 (64.04%) Social Skills
3 43 (48.31%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (33.71%) Banking
5 26 (29.21%) Front Office
6 24 (26.97%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.49%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.25%) Back Office
8 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (67.42%) Developer
2 54 (60.67%) Java Developer
3 19 (21.35%) Investment Banking Java Developer
3 19 (21.35%) SQL Developer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior
4 16 (17.98%) Senior Developer
4 16 (17.98%) Senior Java Developer
5 12 (13.48%) Linux Developer
5 12 (13.48%) Senior Investment Banking Java Developer
5 12 (13.48%) Senior SQL Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Applications Support
6 8 (8.99%) Applications Support Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Support Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Sybase Developer
8 6 (6.74%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Systems Support
8 6 (6.74%) Systems Support Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Consultant
9 3 (3.37%) Endur Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (57.30%) Spring
2 40 (44.94%) Kafka
3 33 (37.08%) JMS
4 6 (6.74%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.74%) Web Services
5 5 (5.62%) REST
5 5 (5.62%) RESTful
5 5 (5.62%) SOAP
5 5 (5.62%) XML
6 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.49%) React
7 3 (3.37%) LDAP
8 2 (2.25%) J2EE
8 2 (2.25%) Middleware
8 2 (2.25%) MSMQ
8 2 (2.25%) Murex MxML
8 2 (2.25%) Rendezvous
8 2 (2.25%) SAP Basis
8 2 (2.25%) Swing
8 2 (2.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (43.82%) Data Structures
2 35 (39.33%) Equities
3 12 (13.48%) Derivative
4 8 (8.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 7 (7.87%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (7.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (5.62%) Replication
7 4 (4.49%) Clustering
7 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (4.49%) Fixed Income
8 3 (3.37%) Algorithms
8 3 (3.37%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.37%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (3.37%) Swaptions
9 2 (2.25%) Credit Derivative
9 2 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.25%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 63 (70.79%) Linux
2 28 (31.46%) Unix
3 5 (5.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.49%) Windows
5 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.25%) Solaris
7 1 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (58.43%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (51.69%) Agile
2 46 (51.69%) SDLC
3 39 (43.82%) Multithreading
4 38 (42.70%) Performance Tuning
5 33 (37.08%) Database Tuning
5 33 (37.08%) Open Source
6 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
7 11 (12.36%) DevOps
7 11 (12.36%) Risk Management
7 11 (12.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (10.11%) Incident Management
8 9 (10.11%) Test Automation
9 8 (8.99%) Cash Management
9 8 (8.99%) Service Delivery
10 7 (7.87%) Concurrent Programming
10 7 (7.87%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (7.87%) Event-Driven
10 7 (7.87%) High Availability
10 7 (7.87%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 68 (76.40%) SQL
2 63 (70.79%) Java
3 57 (64.04%) Python
4 38 (42.70%) Shell Script
5 7 (7.87%) Perl
6 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.49%) Scala
7 4 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.37%) VB
9 2 (2.25%) Bicep
9 2 (2.25%) C#
9 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.12%) Bash
10 1 (1.12%) Ruby
10 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
1 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (2.25%) Degree
2 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (5.62%) Basel III
2 5 (5.62%) MiFID
3 3 (3.37%) GDPR
3 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.25%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) GPFS
2 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.12%) NFS
3 1 (1.12%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.25%) Ansible
1 2 (2.25%) EMC NetWorker
1 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle RMAN
1 2 (2.25%) Tivoli
1 2 (2.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 2 (2.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
2 1 (1.12%) Control-M
2 1 (1.12%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (1.12%) Netcool
2 1 (1.12%) QRadar
2 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Oracle
2 10 (11.24%) Bloomberg
3 9 (10.11%) IBM
3 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.99%) Refinitiv
5 6 (6.74%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.62%) TIBCO
7 4 (4.49%) EMC
7 4 (4.49%) SAP
8 3 (3.37%) Cisco
8 3 (3.37%) OpenLink
8 3 (3.37%) Qualys
8 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.25%) Brocade
9 2 (2.25%) CyberArk
9 2 (2.25%) Google
9 2 (2.25%) Planview
9 2 (2.25%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.25%) Splunk
9 2 (2.25%) VMware