Greeks
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Greeks skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Greeks over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 697 843
Rank change year-on-year +150 +146 -176
Contract jobs citing Greeks 35 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.025% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.028% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 14 12
10th Percentile - £625 -
25th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £700 £743
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -5.72% +23.75%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £793
90th Percentile - £768 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Greeks is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Greeks
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Greeks in the UK

Greeks
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Greeks in the UK

Greeks
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Greeks in the UK

Greeks
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Greeks within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +144 35 £800 +14.29% 15
London +123 35 £800 +14.29% 15
Work from Home +149 32 £800 +14.29% 5

Greeks
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 22 (62.86%) Apache
1 22 (62.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (62.86%) AWS
1 22 (62.86%) dbt
1 22 (62.86%) Snowflake
2 10 (28.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (62.86%) Amazon Athena
1 22 (62.86%) Apache Arrow
1 22 (62.86%) Apache Ignite
1 22 (62.86%) Data Lake
1 22 (62.86%) Dremio
2 10 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 32 (91.43%) Front Office
2 25 (71.43%) Banking
3 24 (68.57%) Finance
3 24 (68.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (34.29%) AWS Software Engineer
1 12 (34.29%) Senior
1 12 (34.29%) Senior Software Engineer
1 12 (34.29%) Software Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Developer
3 10 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Front Office Developer
3 10 (28.57%) Lead
3 10 (28.57%) Technical Leader
4 6 (17.14%) Java Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Java Software Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Python Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Python Software Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Java Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Market Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Market Risk Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (62.86%) gRPC
1 22 (62.86%) NumPy
1 22 (62.86%) Pandas
1 22 (62.86%) Protocol Buffers
1 22 (62.86%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 35 (100.00%) Derivative
2 24 (68.57%) Equities
2 24 (68.57%) Fixed Income
3 22 (62.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (62.86%) Hedge funds
4 10 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (28.57%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (5.71%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Agile
1 22 (62.86%) Asset Management
1 22 (62.86%) Investment Management
1 22 (62.86%) Software Engineering
2 11 (31.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 10 (28.57%) Mathematics
3 10 (28.57%) Multithreading
3 10 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 1 (2.86%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.86%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (2.86%) Decision-Making
4 1 (2.86%) Manual Testing
4 1 (2.86%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (2.86%) Statistics
4 1 (2.86%) Test Automation
4 1 (2.86%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (94.29%) Python
2 22 (62.86%) Java
2 22 (62.86%) JavaScript
2 22 (62.86%) TypeScript
3 10 (28.57%) C#
4 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.86%) Degree
1 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (62.86%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft