ODBC Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ODBC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ODBC over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 397 543
Rank change year-on-year +84 +146 +23
Contract jobs citing ODBC 9 2 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.011% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.30% 0.043% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 22
10th Percentile - £214 £206
25th Percentile £203 £223 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £242 £378
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -35.91% -34.26%
75th Percentile £278 £258 £520
90th Percentile £474 £265 -
UK median daily rate £220 £270 £500
% change year-on-year -18.52% -46.00% -16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,008 4,606 10,993
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.66% 24.93% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,992 3,361 8,099
10th Percentile £325 £350 £400
25th Percentile £424 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -3.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 52 113
10th Percentile £21.40 £37.19 £19.30
25th Percentile £26.50 £54.06 £37.00
Median hourly rate £41.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% - +33.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £68.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.75 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £62.83
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.47% +28.23%

ODBC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ODBC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ODBC trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ODBC.

ODBC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ODBC
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ODBC over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

ODBC daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ODBC
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
1 6 (66.67%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) HTTP
1 6 (66.67%) IMAP
1 6 (66.67%) POP3
1 6 (66.67%) SMTP
1 6 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) Broadband
2 1 (11.11%) NaaS
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Relational Database
2 6 (66.67%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) DB2
3 1 (11.11%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Integration Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) LDAP
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) JDBC
2 6 (66.67%) SAML
2 6 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) Kafka
3 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) CMDB
2 1 (11.11%) AS400
2 1 (11.11%) iSeries
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Tandem
2 1 (11.11%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
1 6 (66.67%) Unix
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Computer Science
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) ITSM
2 6 (66.67%) Data Extraction
2 6 (66.67%) OO
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Network Management
4 1 (11.11%) Operations Management
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Security Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) RPG
4 1 (11.11%) RPG IV
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Google
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) Okta
1 6 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow