Benchmarking Contract Job Trends in Central London

Benchmarking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Benchmarking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 132 143
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +55
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 10 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.51% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £361 - £482
25th Percentile £404 £413 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £610
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -24.18% -18.67%
75th Percentile £588 £506 £690
90th Percentile £650 £518 £738
London median daily rate £500 £615 £525
% change year-on-year -18.70% +17.14% -20.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Benchmarking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,815 2,194 2,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 91.90% 91.65% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,262 1,376 1,782
10th Percentile £339 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £668 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £778 £825
London median daily rate £525 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 17
10th Percentile £19.98 £19.90 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% +40.00% -50.50%
75th Percentile £46.11 £48.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.96
% change year-on-year -20.81% +3.60% -9.55%

Benchmarking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Benchmarking job vacancy trend in Central London

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Benchmarking in Central London over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Benchmarking in Central London

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Benchmarking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Benchmarking

Benchmarking
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 Benchmarking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +11 8 £438 -5.41% 5
Benchmarking
London

Benchmarking
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Power Query
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 5 (50.00%) Banking
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Consultant
1 2 (20.00%) Developer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
1 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (10.00%) SEO Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) NumPy
1 2 (20.00%) Pandas
1 2 (20.00%) SciPy
2 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Derivative
1 2 (20.00%) Equities
1 2 (20.00%) Equity Derivative
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Greeks
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Monte Carlo Method
3 2 (20.00%) Physics
3 2 (20.00%) Quantitative Research
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) SEO
3 2 (20.00%) Stochastic Calculus
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Web Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) C++
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) BeanShell
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
1 2 (20.00%) Ahrefs
1 2 (20.00%) Google
1 2 (20.00%) Screaming Frog
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Optimizely
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Tagetik