Prime Brokerage Contract Job Trends in London

Prime Brokerage
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Prime Brokerage in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Prime Brokerage over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 450 361 377
Rank change year-on-year -89 +16 +27
Contract jobs citing Prime Brokerage 5 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% 0.007% 0.068%
As % of the General category 0.040% 0.011% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - £753
England median daily rate £535 - £700
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All General Skills
London

Prime Brokerage falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,500 9,290 10,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.45% 69.16% 62.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 6,130 6,673
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £790 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 183 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.64 £24.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £44.31 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.30 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%

Prime Brokerage
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Prime Brokerage job vacancy trend in London

Prime Brokerage
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prime Brokerage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prime Brokerage

Prime Brokerage
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prime Brokerage.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Prime Brokerage

Prime Brokerage
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) Sybase ASE
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Sybase Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) .NET Core
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (40.00%) Credit Risk
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) ETL Development
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Basel III
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Sybase