Tradeweb Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Tradeweb
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 Tradeweb products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tradeweb over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 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 Tradeweb Markets LLC.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Tradeweb 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.16% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 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

Tradeweb 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 874 812 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 47.79% 43.05% 41.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 495 726
10th Percentile £338 £313 £325
25th Percentile £414 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £19.98 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.98% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.89 - £36.25
90th Percentile £44.72 £127.30 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.32%

Tradeweb
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Tradeweb job vacancy trend in the City of London

Tradeweb
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Tradeweb
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 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Financial Institution
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Derivative
2 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Low Latency
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Electronic Trading
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Tech Ops
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) MarketAxess
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) ION Trading