FpML Contracts in London

Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 370 447
Rank change year-on-year +27 +77 +110
Contract jobs citing FpML 10 21 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.47% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 42
10th Percentile £285 £545 £489
25th Percentile £399 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £768 £650 £738
90th Percentile £825 £725 £1,009
England median daily rate £650 £625 £600
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for FpML in London

FpML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for FpML in London

FpML
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FpML in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for FpML in London

FpML
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 FpML within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +7 5 £754 +21.53%
FpML
England

FpML
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (10.00%) MQSeries
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (20.00%) Notepad++
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MagicDraw
1 2 (20.00%) XMLSpy
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Back Office
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (90.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Middle Office Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) XML
2 3 (30.00%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (10.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (10.00%) Rendezvous
3 1 (10.00%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Derivative
2 2 (20.00%) DTCC
2 2 (20.00%) OTC Derivatives
2 2 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 5 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (30.00%) TDD
2 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) EMIR
2 2 (20.00%) MiFID
3 1 (10.00%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) TIBCO