Hybrid/Remote Actian Contract Job Trends

Actian
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of Actian products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Actian over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 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 Actian.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 - 364
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Actian 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% - 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.019% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £450
UK median daily rate £470 - £450

All Vendors
Work from Home

Actian 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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 5,362 4,825 7,144
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 47.75% 45.42% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,404 3,010 4,435
10th Percentile £337 £315 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £725 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £518
% change year-on-year -4.31% +0.87% -1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 83 231
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.92 £14.06
25th Percentile £22.63 £25.25 £20.64
Median hourly rate £54.25 £45.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% +11.80% -30.00%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £86.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% -21.21%

Actian
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Actian and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Actian job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Actian
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Actian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Actian

Actian
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle