Calypso Contract Job Trends in London

Calypso
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Calypso products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Calypso over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 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 Calypso Technology.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 347 423
Rank change year-on-year -14 +76 +150
Contract jobs citing Calypso 18 28 6
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.18% 0.030%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.41% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 6
10th Percentile £460 £539 £650
25th Percentile £556 £575 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £675
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -6.90%
75th Percentile £758 £700 £769
90th Percentile £788 £734 £869
England median daily rate £600 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% -6.90%

All Vendors
London

Calypso 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,315 6,778 8,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.43% 43.64% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,069 4,253 5,804
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 61 111
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -2.47% +62.00%
75th Percentile £37.12 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £83.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +74.51%

Calypso
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Calypso job vacancy trend in London

Calypso
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Calypso.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Calypso

Calypso
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Calypso in London over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Calypso in London

Calypso
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Calypso.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Calypso

Calypso
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calypso within the London region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Central London -2 3 £685 +15.57% 4
East London - 1 £585 -
Calypso
England

Calypso
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Camunda
2 1 (5.56%) MQSeries
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Aladdin
2 3 (16.67%) thinkFolio
3 1 (5.56%) Markit EDM
3 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) WeChat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Data Mart
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Ant
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (83.33%) Finance
2 8 (44.44%) Front Office
3 7 (38.89%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Back Office
6 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Business Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Java Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Java Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Murex Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) Spring
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.56%) Drools
2 1 (5.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Derivative
2 6 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 5 (27.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (16.67%) Hedge funds
4 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (11.11%) Equities
5 2 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
6 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (5.56%) DTCC
6 1 (5.56%) Market Risk
6 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (5.56%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Microservices
2 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (22.22%) Business Analysis
3 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 3 (16.67%) Data Mapping
4 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) ERP
4 3 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 3 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Collateral Management
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 2 (11.11%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) CBAP
2 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) CFA
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Basel II
1 1 (5.56%) Basel III
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) FINRA
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Control-M
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Murex
2 3 (16.67%) BISAM
2 3 (16.67%) Charles River
2 3 (16.67%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) SimCorp
3 2 (11.11%) Bloomberg
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Refinitiv
4 1 (5.56%) Reuters
4 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Sophis
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk