Reuters Contract Job Trends in Central London

Reuters
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 122 130
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +41
Contract jobs citing Reuters 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.078% 0.26% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.19% 0.58% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £293 £253 £433
25th Percentile £395 £256 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £275 £535
Median % change year-on-year +111.36% -48.60% +12.63%
75th Percentile £758 £463 £545
90th Percentile £854 £568 £547
London median daily rate £404 £288 £538
% change year-on-year +40.35% -46.51% -14.00%

All Vendors
Central London

Reuters 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 1,032 865 1,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.34% 45.31% 42.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 537 761
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £450 £424 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £653 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
London median daily rate £525 £538 £538
% change year-on-year -2.33% - -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 8
10th Percentile - £22.53 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.53 £15.19
Median hourly rate £22.27 £29.07 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +33.66% -42.00%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.48 £24.56
90th Percentile £52.55 £89.13 £63.53
London median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.80
% change year-on-year +24.34% +19.96% -11.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Reuters job vacancy trend in Central London

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Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reuters in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Reuters in Central London

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Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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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 Reuters within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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 -12 2 £581 +111.36% 2
Reuters
London

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (100.00%) ION Trading
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft