Hybrid/Remote ODBC Contract Job Trends

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ODBC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 311 364
Rank change year-on-year -13 +53 +133
Contract jobs citing ODBC 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.018% 0.028% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.068% 0.11% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
UK median daily rate £470 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -27.27%

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 2,956 2,718 3,841
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.32% 25.59% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,948 1,872 2,705
10th Percentile £360 £356 £340
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.69% -7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 26 68
10th Percentile £38.60 £25.75 £23.55
25th Percentile £61.25 £35.44 £41.02
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +17.92% -18.46%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.47
90th Percentile £76.00 £90.63 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

ODBC
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

ODBC job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

ODBC
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Ingres
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) COM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Actian
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) OpenText
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle