FpML Contract Job Trends in England

Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring FpML skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 623 496 501
Rank change year-on-year -127 +5 +64
Contract jobs citing FpML 3 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.036% 0.054%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.035% 0.16% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 14
10th Percentile - £513 £500
25th Percentile £825 £559 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% - -21.88%
75th Percentile £875 £838 £650
90th Percentile - £875 £725
UK median daily rate £850 £625 £625
% change year-on-year +36.00% - -21.88%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

FpML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,502 6,121 7,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.54% 22.02% 22.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,556 4,186 5,034
10th Percentile £365 £350 £360
25th Percentile £431 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £816
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 158 225
10th Percentile £28.79 £31.25 £24.51
25th Percentile £46.53 £43.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £73.00 £67.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £81.01 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £54.88 £50.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% +9.75% -16.67%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing FpML relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

FpML job vacancy trend in England

FpML
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FpML.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing FpML

FpML
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FpML within the England region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -81 3 £850 +36.00% 3
FpML
UK

FpML
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (33.33%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg TOMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Cash Management Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Liquidity Business Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Fixed Income
2 1 (33.33%) Eurex
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Cash Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (33.33%) Straight-Through Processing
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Tcl
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) ION Trading
1 1 (33.33%) MarketAxess
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase
1 1 (33.33%) Tradeweb