RMDS Contracts in England

Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RMDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RMDS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 - 747
Rank change year-on-year - - -129
Contract jobs citing RMDS 5 0 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.013% - 0.042%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.19% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 26
10th Percentile £670 - -
25th Percentile £775 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £661
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.23%
75th Percentile £1,200 - £772
90th Percentile - - £775
UK median daily rate £800 - £661
% change year-on-year - - +10.21%

All Business Application Skills
England

RMDS is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,593 3,050 3,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.00% 6.09% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,600 1,934 2,484
10th Percentile £363 £375 £381
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £666
90th Percentile £788 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 50 53
10th Percentile £14.71 £22.40 £16.43
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £47.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.11% +35.71% +31.21%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.47 £78.13 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £41.87 £47.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.86% +35.71% +5.26%

RMDS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RMDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RMDS in England

RMDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for RMDS in England

RMDS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RMDS in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RMDS in England

RMDS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for RMDS in England

RMDS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RMDS within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
London - 3 £1,200 - 1
Midlands - 2 £800 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 -
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
RMDS
UK

RMDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Multicast
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) KDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Market Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) HTML5
1 2 (40.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Automated Trading
2 2 (40.00%) Backtesting
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (40.00%) ION Trading
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Solace
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper