BASE24 Contract Job Trends in Central London

ACI BASE24
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring BASE24 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 126 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing BASE24 2 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.099% 0.26% -
As % of the Business Applications category 1.01% 3.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -
75th Percentile £488 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £447 £600 -
% change year-on-year -25.50% - -

All Business Application Skills
Central London

BASE24 falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 198 189 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.82% 8.23% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 107 113
10th Percentile £313 £425 £413
25th Percentile £401 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% -8.00% +9.84%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £738 £853 £775
London median daily rate £550 £551 £588
% change year-on-year -0.09% -6.30% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £15.49 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £21.86 -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £30.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +105.63% - -
75th Percentile £63.75 £35.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -61.18% +159.54%

BASE24
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BASE24 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

BASE24 job vacancy trend in Central London

BASE24
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BASE24.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing BASE24

BASE24
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BASE24 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 December 2025. 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
City of London -9 2 £475 +5.56%
BASE24
London

BASE24
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NonStop SQL
1 1 (50.00%) OLTP
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) APACS
1 1 (50.00%) EMV
1 1 (50.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk