Sophis Contract Job Trends in England

Sophis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Sophis products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sophis over the 6 months leading up to 17 December 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 Misys FusionCapital Sophis.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 509 553
Rank change year-on-year -34 +44 +180
Contract jobs citing Sophis 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.019% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.040% 0.015% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £691 £623 -
25th Percentile - £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% - -6.90%
75th Percentile - £713 £713
90th Percentile - £728 -
UK median daily rate £1,000 £675 £675
% change year-on-year +48.15% - -6.90%

All Vendors
England

Sophis 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,928 13,411 16,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.52% 45.96% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,684 8,175 10,833
10th Percentile £293 £295 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 730 393 606
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.18 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.69 £31.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% -31.43% +73.88%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

Sophis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Sophis job vacancy trend in England

Sophis
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sophis

Sophis
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophis in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sophis in England

Sophis
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sophis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Sophis

Sophis
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 Sophis within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -3 6 £1,000 +48.15%
Sophis
UK

Sophis
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 (16.67%) MQSeries
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Front Office
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Derivative
1 6 (100.00%) Equities
1 6 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (83.33%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (83.33%) Mathematics
1 5 (83.33%) Physics
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 1 (16.67%) Calypso
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Murex
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Reuters
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk