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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 327 415
Rank change year-on-year +25 +88 +164
Contract jobs citing ODBC 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.052% 0.063% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.25% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £256 - £214
25th Percentile £306 £203 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £205 £242
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -15.38% -31.86%
75th Percentile £473 £214 £258
90th Percentile £524 £312 £265
UK median daily rate £575 £205 £475
% change year-on-year +180.49% -56.84% -5.00%

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 2,593 3,264 5,081
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.72% 25.83% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,768 2,207 3,784
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £430 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £800 £850 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 61 55
10th Percentile £31.25 £36.25 £37.65
25th Percentile £41.25 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -33.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £62.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.77% +2.67% -

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 Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ODBC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

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 15 September 2025.

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 4 (80.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 1 (20.00%) Electronics
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Developer Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Web Services
2 4 (80.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Camel
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) JDBC
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
2 4 (80.00%) JSON
2 4 (80.00%) LDAP
2 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (80.00%) REST
2 4 (80.00%) SAML
2 4 (80.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) FHIR
3 1 (20.00%) XML
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Patterns
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) DICOM
1 1 (20.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) BMC
1 4 (80.00%) HP
1 4 (80.00%) Ivanti
1 4 (80.00%) Remedy
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) SAP