Reuters Contracts in the City of London

Reuters
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 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 4 July 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 122 167
Rank change year-on-year +3 +45 +21
Contract jobs citing Reuters 5 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.28% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.31% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £253 £515 £431
25th Percentile £256 £516 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £533 £475
Median % change year-on-year -48.36% +12.11% +35.71%
75th Percentile £463 £547 £591
90th Percentile £568 £548 £776
Central London median daily rate £275 £531 £475
% change year-on-year -48.24% +11.84% +35.71%

All Vendors
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 837 954 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.19% 44.66% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 695 938
10th Percentile £313 £343 £262
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £564
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -2.04% +2.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £785 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £22.35 £12.75 £15.30
25th Percentile £26.75 £15.19 £19.32
Median hourly rate £34.65 £21.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +59.31% -40.00% +36.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £27.00 £52.81
90th Percentile £93.11 £63.53 £53.23
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £21.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year +42.53% -13.00% -24.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Reuters as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Reuters in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Reuters in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Reuters in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reuters in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reuters in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reuters in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Reuters in the City of London

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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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) International Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Equities
1 4 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (20.00%) CRUD
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (20.00%) KYC
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Ruby
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EMIR
1 1 (20.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) XenApp
1 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
3 3 (60.00%) Refinitiv
4 1 (20.00%) CQG
4 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow