Reuters Contracts

Reuters
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Reuters products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Reuters over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 594 736
Rank change year-on-year +26 +142 -44
Contract jobs citing Reuters 34 101 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.18% 0.42% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 76 99
10th Percentile £281 £421 £250
25th Percentile £350 £527 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% - +19.62%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £875 £719 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £543 £195
% change year-on-year -47.05% +178.46% -33.62%

All Vendors
UK

Reuters is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,423 24,197 35,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.53% 43.55% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 16,129 23,703
10th Percentile £268 £269 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 641 857
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +7.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.59
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Reuters in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reuters.

Daily rate trend for Reuters in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reuters over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reuters in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reuters.

Hourly rate trend for Reuters in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +30 31 £533 -14.80% 13
London +15 23 £538 -14.00% 13
Work from Home +86 10 £725 +20.83% 5
UK excluding London +47 9 £288 -47.05%
South East - 7 £288 -
North of England +22 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £390 -

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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 (11.76%) Apache
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Eikon
2 3 (8.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (5.88%) ION MarketView
3 2 (5.88%) NetSuite
3 2 (5.88%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (11.76%) dbt
3 4 (11.76%) GCP
3 4 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.82%) Azure
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) WebEx
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) DNS
3 1 (2.94%) Firewall
3 1 (2.94%) FTP
3 1 (2.94%) Skype
3 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Arrow
1 4 (11.76%) Apache Ignite
1 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
1 4 (11.76%) Dremio
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) JIRA
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 12 (35.29%) Banking
2 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (26.47%) Front Office
4 6 (17.65%) Legal
5 5 (14.71%) Law
5 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (11.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (17.65%) Lead
2 5 (14.71%) Desktop Support
2 5 (14.71%) Development Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Operations Manager
2 5 (14.71%) Systems Development Manager
3 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Payments Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) NumPy
1 5 (14.71%) Pandas
2 4 (11.76%) gRPC
2 4 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
2 4 (11.76%) SciPy
3 3 (8.82%) PySpark
4 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.94%) CSS
4 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) React
4 1 (2.94%) REST
4 1 (2.94%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Derivative
1 6 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (17.65%) Hedge funds
2 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
3 4 (11.76%) Equities
3 4 (11.76%) Fixed Income
4 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.88%) Blackberry
5 2 (5.88%) iPad
5 2 (5.88%) iPhone
5 2 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 14 (41.18%) Windows
2 7 (20.59%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.94%) Linux
4 1 (2.94%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Agile
1 8 (23.53%) Project Management
2 7 (20.59%) Asset Management
3 5 (14.71%) Business Continuity
3 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (14.71%) Information Security
3 5 (14.71%) Migration
3 5 (14.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (11.76%) Change Management
4 4 (11.76%) Line Management
4 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) ERP
5 3 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (8.82%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (5.88%) Electronic Trading
6 2 (5.88%) Investment Management
6 2 (5.88%) ITIL
6 2 (5.88%) ITSM
6 2 (5.88%) Low Latency
6 2 (5.88%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.59%) Java
2 5 (14.71%) Python
2 5 (14.71%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) VBA
6 1 (2.94%) Clojure
6 1 (2.94%) Groovy
6 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) CCNA
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.88%) MCP
2 2 (5.88%) MCSA
2 2 (5.88%) MCSE
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
2 3 (8.82%) MiFID
3 2 (5.88%) EMIR
3 2 (5.88%) SEPA
4 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Bloomberg
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Citrix
3 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.82%) SAP
5 2 (5.88%) Arista
5 2 (5.88%) BT
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) Radianz
5 2 (5.88%) Refinitiv
6 1 (2.94%) FactSet
6 1 (2.94%) Trayport
6 1 (2.94%) VMware