MarketAxess Contract Job Trends in the City of London

MarketAxess
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of MarketAxess products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MarketAxess over the 6 months leading up to 21 November 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 MarketAxess.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MarketAxess 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.056% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £925 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £950 - -
75th Percentile £975 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £950 - -

All Vendors
City of London

MarketAxess 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 891 919 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.67% 43.68% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 573 802
10th Percentile £325 £325 £319
25th Percentile £413 £456 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 8
10th Percentile £19.11 £18.70 -
25th Percentile £21.82 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £71.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.96% +103.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £54.44 £118.38 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.93 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.99 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -46.03% +140.96% +1.22%

MarketAxess
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

MarketAxess job vacancy trend in the City of London

MarketAxess
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MarketAxess.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing MarketAxess

MarketAxess
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tradeweb