Reuters Contract Job Trends 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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 126 143
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 +40
Contract jobs citing Reuters 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.12% 0.094% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.24% 0.21% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £251 - £427
25th Percentile £253 - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.15%
75th Percentile £278 - £694
90th Percentile £284 - £818
Central London median daily rate £263 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +46.15%

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 848 941 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.06% 44.43% 41.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 597 831
10th Percentile £325 £339 £319
25th Percentile £421 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.61% +216.67% +8.43%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -51.00% +140.96% -1.19%

Reuters
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Reuters job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reuters.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Reuters

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Snow