Market Data Specialist Contract Job Trends in London

Market Data Specialist
England > London

The median Market Data Specialist daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Market Data Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.017% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,787 11,429 16,301
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.40% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,131 7,789 11,782
10th Percentile £353 £349 £325
25th Percentile £431 £430 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.43%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.15% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 149 315
10th Percentile £19.23 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% +25.93% -22.86%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £63.35 £65.61
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.65
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.14% -18.13%

Market Data Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Market Data Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Market Data Specialist job vacancy trend in London

Market Data Specialist
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Market Data Specialist job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Market Data Specialist job vacancies in London

Market Data Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 May 2026, Market Data Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Market Data Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (100.00%) Curve Construction
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Refinitiv
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt

Market Data Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Curve Construction
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (100.00%) Refinitiv