Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring JDBC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JDBC over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 699 850 902
Rank change year-on-year +151 +52 -56
Permanent jobs citing JDBC 12 45 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.022% 0.045% 0.077%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.21% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11 28 62
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £84,250 £66,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,125 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +4.17% -13.60% +6.84%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

JDBC falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,557 21,067 30,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.21% 21.24% 30.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,219 15,745 18,516
10th Percentile £37,747 £36,250 £40,835
25th Percentile £50,300 £45,000 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +6.30%
75th Percentile £86,625 £78,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

JDBC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JDBC in the UK

JDBC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JDBC.

Salary trend for JDBC in the UK

JDBC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JDBC over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JDBC in the UK

JDBC
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JDBC within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +133 10 £70,000 +16.67% 10
UK excluding London +163 6 £62,500 +4.17% 9
London +97 5 £85,000 +36.00% 7
East of England - 3 £55,000 -
Work from Home +122 2 £78,750 +18.87% 20
Scotland +96 1 £74,500 +10.37% 4
North of England - 1 £74,500 - 1
Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 1
North West - 1 £74,500 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £70,000 -

JDBC
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 (33.33%) Tomcat
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (8.33%) NetWeaver
3 1 (8.33%) WebLogic
3 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Eclipse
1 4 (33.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Gradle
2 3 (25.00%) Maven
2 3 (25.00%) Subversion
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) NetBeans
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Integration Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) SAP Integration Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) SAP PI Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) webMethods Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) J2EE
2 4 (33.33%) JSP
2 4 (33.33%) OAuth
2 4 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (33.33%) Spring
2 4 (33.33%) Struts
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
3 3 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (25.00%) JAXB
3 3 (25.00%) JSF
3 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 3 (25.00%) OpenID
3 3 (25.00%) React
3 3 (25.00%) Swing
3 3 (25.00%) Vue
3 3 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) LDAP
4 2 (16.67%) Middleware
4 2 (16.67%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
1 3 (25.00%) Taxonomies
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Android
1 3 (25.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (25.00%) Biometrics
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (25.00%) MVC
2 3 (25.00%) SOA
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (25.00%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (16.67%) Mobile Development
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) API Management
4 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (8.33%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) ABAP
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) ActionScript
5 1 (8.33%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (8.33%) Bash
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) ForgeRock
3 2 (16.67%) Sybase
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) webMethods