FpML Contracts in England

Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring FpML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FpML over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 532 573
Rank change year-on-year +52 +41 +176
Contract jobs citing FpML 12 19 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.048% 0.051% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.24% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 52
10th Percentile £513 £530 £492
25th Percentile £559 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £635
Median % change year-on-year - -1.57% -15.33%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £950
90th Percentile £875 £725 £975
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £635
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -15.33%

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 5,652 7,867 10,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.56% 21.06% 22.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,925 5,492 7,899
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £800 £798
UK median daily rate £513 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.51% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 264 134
10th Percentile £32.69 £23.07 £32.03
25th Percentile £50.00 £43.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.87% -14.42% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.48 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing FpML as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for FpML in England

FpML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing FpML in England.

Daily rate trend for FpML in England

FpML
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FpML in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FpML in England

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 24 June 2025. 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 +47 12 £625 - 12
FpML
UK

FpML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (91.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Front Office
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.33%) Back Office
5 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Business Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Python Developer - Fintech
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) XML Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (58.33%) XML
2 5 (41.67%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (41.67%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (8.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (8.33%) Rendezvous
3 1 (8.33%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Algorithms
1 5 (41.67%) Data Structures
1 5 (41.67%) Derivative
1 5 (41.67%) Fixed Income
1 5 (41.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (33.33%) DTCC
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
2 5 (41.67%) Kanban
2 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
2 5 (41.67%) OO
2 5 (41.67%) Physics
2 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Regulatory Change
4 2 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Multithreading
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) C#
3 5 (41.67%) C++
4 4 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) EMIR
1 4 (33.33%) MiFID
2 1 (8.33%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) IBM
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) TIBCO