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 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 348 472
Rank change year-on-year +50 +124 +141
Contract jobs citing ODBC 2 1 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.006% 0.072%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.079% 0.027% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £503 - £400
25th Percentile £507 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £522 - £700
90th Percentile £526 - -
UK median daily rate £750 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +87.50% -33.33% +18.34%

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 2,533 3,734 7,175
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.11% 23.49% 25.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,840 2,604 5,312
10th Percentile £363 £334 £399
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £800 £750 £762
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 59 90
10th Percentile £25.65 £20.81 £21.71
25th Percentile £43.50 £37.63 £37.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +33.22%
75th Percentile £72.50 £69.38 £73.75
90th Percentile £96.63 £79.20 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £47.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.58% -26.92% +32.65%

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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 Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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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

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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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
1 1 (50.00%) InterSystems Cache
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) AS400 Programmer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) AS400
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) iSeries
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) RPG
1 1 (50.00%) RPG IV
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM