Toad Contracts

Quest Toad
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Toad skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Toad 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 501 571 688
Rank change year-on-year +70 +117 +105
Contract jobs citing Toad 19 11 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.025% 0.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.46% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 22
10th Percentile £350 £403 £425
25th Percentile £361 £441 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £500 £576
Median % change year-on-year -21.24% -13.23% +33.24%
75th Percentile £415 - £625
90th Percentile £480 £580 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £373 £500 £591
% change year-on-year -25.50% -15.38% +39.04%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Toad falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Toad
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Toad in the UK

Toad
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Toad in the UK

Toad
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Toad in the UK

Toad
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Toad in the UK

Toad
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Toad 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 +60 14 £394 -21.24% 4
UK excluding London +71 11 £373 -25.50% 4
London +39 7 £415 -13.96% 1
Scotland - 5 £450 - 1
Work from Home +39 4 £493 -1.40% 5
South East - 4 £373 -
Midlands - 1 £402 -
North West - 1 £356 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £402 -
North of England - 1 £356 - 1

Toad
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 (21.05%) WebLogic
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) AWS
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 2 (10.53%) Azure API Management
2 2 (10.53%) GitHub
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.26%) Datadog
3 1 (5.26%) IaaS
3 1 (5.26%) PaaS
3 1 (5.26%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
3 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) FTP
2 1 (5.26%) PuTTY
2 1 (5.26%) SSL
2 1 (5.26%) WinSCP
2 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle Database 10g
2 2 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQLPlus
3 1 (5.26%) MySQL
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) SoapUI
3 2 (10.53%) Ant
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) Flyway
4 1 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
4 1 (5.26%) JMeter
4 1 (5.26%) JProfiler
4 1 (5.26%) Liquibase
4 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (5.26%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.26%) TestNG
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) SAP Test Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Test Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior SAP Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.26%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Functional Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) XML
2 3 (15.79%) SOAP
3 2 (10.53%) EDI
3 2 (10.53%) IBM Integration Bus
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) Middleware
3 2 (10.53%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) JSON
4 1 (5.26%) JWT
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) OAuth
4 1 (5.26%) OpenID
4 1 (5.26%) SAML
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Batch
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
1 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.53%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Unix
2 7 (36.84%) Windows
3 3 (15.79%) Linux
4 2 (10.53%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
2 5 (26.32%) Validation
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (21.05%) Defect Management
3 4 (21.05%) Test Scripting
4 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.53%) Migration
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.53%) Process Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
5 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
5 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
5 2 (10.53%) User Stories
5 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) SQL
2 12 (63.16%) PL/SQL
3 9 (47.37%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) Perl
5 2 (10.53%) Korn
5 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) Groovy
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) PHP
6 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) ISEB
1 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
1 4 (21.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SEPA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Oracle
2 4 (21.05%) Avaloq
2 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 4 (21.05%) webMethods
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Perforce
3 2 (10.53%) Splunk
4 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.26%) Okta
4 1 (5.26%) RedGate
4 1 (5.26%) Remedy
4 1 (5.26%) Talend