Plaid Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Plaid
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 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 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Plaid 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £325 - -

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 866 935 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.51% 44.27% 41.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 607 868
10th Percentile £320 £350 £312
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +0.09% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £740 £768 £788
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
10th Percentile £20.01 £16.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £23.31 £19.50 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +30.12% -1.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £60.35
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +5.56% +30.12% -12.34%

Plaid
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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