GoldenSource Contract Job Trends in London

GoldenSource
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of GoldenSource products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoldenSource over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 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 the GoldenSource Corporation.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 376 423
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 +144
Contract jobs citing GoldenSource 5 3 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.038% 0.019% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.081% 0.043% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile - £600 £553
25th Percentile £575 £675 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £800 £750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +22.45%
75th Percentile £625 £815 £988
90th Percentile - £824 £991
England median daily rate £510 £675 £750
% change year-on-year -24.44% -10.00% +22.45%

All Vendors
London

GoldenSource 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 6,157 6,921 8,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.32% 43.69% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,983 4,357 5,996
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £675
90th Percentile £740 £750 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 69 115
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +60.00%
75th Percentile £37.81 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £94.00 £75.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.27% +77.09%

GoldenSource
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GoldenSource job vacancy trend in London

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GoldenSource

GoldenSource
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Aladdin
1 2 (40.00%) Eagle PACE
1 2 (40.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) General Ledger
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cost Control
1 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Change Control
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Reconciliation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) PMO
2 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley