VocaLink Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VocaLink
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 VocaLink products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VocaLink over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 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 VocaLink Limited.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VocaLink 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £675 - -

All Vendors
City of London

VocaLink 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 995 871 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.53% 48.91% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 571 607
10th Percentile £338 £320 £350
25th Percentile £449 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.45%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.61% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -25.52%

VocaLink
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

VocaLink job vacancy trend in the City of London

VocaLink
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

VocaLink
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture