Reuters Contracts in London

Reuters
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 391 496
Rank change year-on-year +16 +105 -19
Contract jobs citing Reuters 25 91 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.36% 0.28%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.90% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 67 89
10th Percentile £313 £422 £263
25th Percentile £356 £528 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% - +20.19%
75th Percentile £875 £688 £725
90th Percentile £888 £713 £758
England median daily rate £538 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -14.00% - +20.19%

All Vendors
London

Reuters falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,278 10,100 14,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.17% 40.16% 38.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,990 7,164 10,487
10th Percentile £312 £325 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 127 162
10th Percentile £13.91 £16.09 £16.03
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.12 £23.91
Median hourly rate £23.80 £28.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.49% -20.83% +33.33%
75th Percentile £38.75 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £69.25 £62.50
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reuters in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reuters in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reuters in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Reuters in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Reuters in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +42 6 £535 +12.63% 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (32.00%) Apache
1 8 (32.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Eikon
2 2 (8.00%) ION MarketView
2 2 (8.00%) NetSuite
2 2 (8.00%) thinkFolio
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (4.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon ECS
2 8 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
2 8 (32.00%) dbt
2 8 (32.00%) GCP
2 8 (32.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (32.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (4.00%) DHCP
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) FTP
2 1 (4.00%) Skype
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.00%) WebEx
2 1 (4.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (32.00%) Apache Arrow
1 8 (32.00%) Apache Ignite
1 8 (32.00%) Data Lake
1 8 (32.00%) Dremio
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Power BI
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 16 (64.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Banking
2 13 (52.00%) Front Office
3 8 (32.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Lead
2 5 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 5 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Developer
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Software Team Leader
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Team Leader
4 3 (12.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) NumPy
1 9 (36.00%) Pandas
2 8 (32.00%) gRPC
2 8 (32.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 8 (32.00%) SciPy
3 6 (24.00%) PySpark
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.00%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Hedge funds
2 8 (32.00%) Derivative
2 8 (32.00%) Equities
2 8 (32.00%) Fixed Income
2 8 (32.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.00%) Blackberry
4 2 (8.00%) iPad
4 2 (8.00%) iPhone
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.00%) Linux
4 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
1 11 (44.00%) Asset Management
2 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 8 (32.00%) Line Management
3 8 (32.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) B2B
4 2 (8.00%) Change Management
4 2 (8.00%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (8.00%) Investment Management
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL
4 2 (8.00%) Low Latency
4 2 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (8.00%) Project Management
4 2 (8.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.00%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (4.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Java
2 9 (36.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.00%) VBA
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP
6 1 (4.00%) Clojure
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) CCNA
2 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (8.00%) MCP
2 2 (8.00%) MCSA
2 2 (8.00%) MCSE
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Bloomberg
2 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.00%) Arista
4 2 (8.00%) BT
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
4 2 (8.00%) Citrix
4 2 (8.00%) Radianz
4 2 (8.00%) Refinitiv
5 1 (4.00%) FactSet
5 1 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Trayport
5 1 (4.00%) VMware