Plaid Contract Job Trends in Central London

Plaid
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Plaid products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Plaid over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Plaid, Inc.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Plaid 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.052% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £325 - -

All Vendors
Central London

Plaid falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 942 1,013 1,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.58% 43.42% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 666 953
10th Percentile £313 £339 £263
25th Percentile £408 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% - -
75th Percentile £675 £657 £684
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
London median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile £19.24 £16.50 £15.30
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +30.12% -12.34%
75th Percentile £60.25 £92.50 £52.63
90th Percentile £64.84 £137.50 £60.35
London median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%

Plaid
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 Plaid within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 September 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 - 1 £325 -
Plaid
London

Plaid
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Swift