ODBC Contracts with Work from Home Options

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for ODBC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ODBC over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 462 615
Rank change year-on-year +114 +153 -138
Contract jobs citing ODBC 1 12 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.047% 0.018%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.18% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 5
10th Percentile - £440 £433
25th Percentile - £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile - £700 £569
90th Percentile - - £603
UK median daily rate £400 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% +21.21%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

ODBC is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,659 6,487 13,240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.89% 25.21% 29.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,553 4,822 9,779
10th Percentile £331 £394 £396
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -0.46% +13.02%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £638
90th Percentile £775 £753 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 81 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ODBC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ODBC trend for jobs with a WFH option

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing ODBC.

ODBC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) R Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blog
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) R