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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 618 738
Rank change year-on-year +59 +120 -86
Contract jobs citing Reuters 39 101 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.090% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.39% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 85 91
10th Percentile £281 £525 £213
25th Percentile £350 £550 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.80% - +44.51%
75th Percentile £590 £700 £725
90th Percentile £675 £740 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £288 £543 £219
% change year-on-year -47.05% +148.23% -25.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

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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 27 April 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 27 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 +68 36 £531 -15.00% 14
London +38 28 £535 -14.40% 13
Work from Home +99 10 £590 -1.67% 3
UK excluding London +69 9 £288 -47.05% 1
South East - 7 £288 - 1
North of England +30 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 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.13%) Confluence
4 1 (2.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (10.26%) Eikon
3 3 (7.69%) ION MarketView
4 2 (5.13%) NetSuite
4 2 (5.13%) thinkFolio
5 1 (2.56%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.56%) Asana
3 1 (2.56%) AWS
3 1 (2.56%) Dropbox
3 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) VPN
2 3 (7.69%) WebEx
3 1 (2.56%) FTP
3 1 (2.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
General
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Banking
4 7 (17.95%) Legal
5 5 (12.82%) Front Office
5 5 (12.82%) Law
5 5 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Desktop Support
2 6 (15.38%) Operations Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Development Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) Systems Development Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) IT Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Payments Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Payments Business Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) SAP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
2 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) NumPy
2 1 (2.56%) Pandas
2 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) Rendezvous
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) Spring
2 1 (2.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.26%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.13%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Derivative
3 2 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) iPad
3 2 (5.13%) iPhone
3 2 (5.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (5.13%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 9 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.13%) Linux
4 1 (2.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (2.56%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) Project Management
2 6 (15.38%) Change Management
2 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (15.38%) ERP
2 6 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
2 6 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (12.82%) Business Continuity
3 5 (12.82%) Information Security
3 5 (12.82%) Roadmaps
4 4 (10.26%) Agile
4 4 (10.26%) Asset Management
4 4 (10.26%) Coaching
5 3 (7.69%) Electronic Trading
5 3 (7.69%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.13%) Analytics
6 2 (5.13%) B2B
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL
6 2 (5.13%) ITSM
6 2 (5.13%) Low Latency
6 2 (5.13%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) Java
2 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) VBA
4 1 (2.56%) Clojure
4 1 (2.56%) Groovy
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) CCNA
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (5.13%) MCP
2 2 (5.13%) MCSA
2 2 (5.13%) MCSE
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.69%) MiFID
3 2 (5.13%) EMIR
3 2 (5.13%) SEPA
4 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) BladeLogic
1 1 (2.56%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (2.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (61.54%) Bloomberg
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.26%) Citrix
4 4 (10.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (7.69%) Refinitiv
6 2 (5.13%) Arista
6 2 (5.13%) BT
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) Radianz
7 1 (2.56%) FactSet
7 1 (2.56%) ION Trading
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle
7 1 (2.56%) TIBCO
7 1 (2.56%) Trayport
7 1 (2.56%) VMware