FpML Contracts in Central London

Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring FpML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FpML over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 131 167
Rank change year-on-year +7 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing FpML 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.082% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.96% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £612 £581 -
25th Percentile £671 £590 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £754 £620 £507
Median % change year-on-year +21.53% +22.29% -26.52%
75th Percentile £825 £640 -
90th Percentile - £643 -
London median daily rate £595 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.80% +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

FpML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 519 535 1,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.99% 21.87% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 386 707
10th Percentile £409 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% -11.92% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing FpML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for FpML in Central London

FpML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FpML in Central London.

Daily rate trend for FpML in Central London

FpML
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FpML in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FpML in Central London

FpML
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 FpML within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 5 £754 +21.53%
FpML
London

FpML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Back Office
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Middle Office Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (40.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
1 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO 9001