Reuters Contracts in London

Reuters
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
31 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 349 387
Rank change year-on-year +8 +38 +113
Contract jobs citing Reuters 29 38 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.21% 0.23% 0.36%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.54% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 36 65
10th Percentile £224 £306 £310
25th Percentile £250 £516 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -57.81% +28.00% -
75th Percentile £442 £888 £713
90th Percentile £734 - £750
England median daily rate £338 £800 £625
% change year-on-year -57.81% +28.00% -

All Vendors
London

Reuters 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 6,217 7,013 9,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.69% 42.73% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,063 4,810 6,977
10th Percentile £325 £313 £324
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -1.79%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £762 £763 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 87 110
10th Percentile £15.84 £17.62 £16.61
25th Percentile £22.50 £20.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £27.50 £31.96
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% -13.95% +16.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.63 £58.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% -20.00% +55.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Reuters in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Reuters in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Reuters in London over the 6 months to 31 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Reuters in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Reuters in London.

Hourly rate trend for Reuters in London

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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 Reuters within the London region over the 6 months to 31 July 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 -3 4 £438 -17.65% 2
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England

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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 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.45%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) ION MarketView
2 2 (6.90%) Eikon
2 2 (6.90%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.45%) Eze OMS
3 1 (3.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Power Query
3 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Cypress.io
1 4 (13.79%) HP UFT
1 4 (13.79%) Selenium
1 4 (13.79%) TestComplete
2 2 (6.90%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.45%) Git
3 1 (3.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.45%) JetBrains Rider
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Banking
3 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (24.14%) Front Office
5 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
5 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.90%) Back Office
7 1 (3.45%) Games
7 1 (3.45%) International Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Analyst
2 10 (34.48%) Support Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Trade Floor Support Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Automation Test Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Automation Tester
4 4 (13.79%) Java Automation Tester
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Test Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) Tester
5 3 (10.34%) IT Support
5 3 (10.34%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Front Office Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) .NET
2 4 (13.79%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) Rendezvous
4 2 (6.90%) Kafka
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.45%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (3.45%) Middleware
5 1 (3.45%) NumPy
5 1 (3.45%) REST
5 1 (3.45%) SciPy
5 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (24.14%) Equities
2 7 (24.14%) Fixed Income
3 4 (13.79%) Derivative
4 3 (10.34%) Reference Data
4 3 (10.34%) Smartphone
5 2 (6.90%) Blackberry
5 2 (6.90%) BYOD
5 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
5 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
6 1 (3.45%) Market Risk
6 1 (3.45%) Private Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Windows
2 8 (27.59%) Windows 10
3 6 (20.69%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.34%) Unix
5 1 (3.45%) Android
5 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) ITIL
2 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (13.79%) Integration Testing
3 4 (13.79%) OO
3 4 (13.79%) OOP
3 4 (13.79%) Open Source
3 4 (13.79%) Software Testing
3 4 (13.79%) System Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
3 4 (13.79%) Test Scripting
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Thinking
4 3 (10.34%) Break/Fix
4 3 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (10.34%) Configuration Management
4 3 (10.34%) Electronic Trading
4 3 (10.34%) Migration
4 3 (10.34%) Project Management
4 3 (10.34%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Python
2 7 (24.14%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) Java
4 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) Bash
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
5 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) SLA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) EMIR
3 1 (3.45%) MiFID
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) SCCM
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 3 (10.34%) BladeLogic
4 3 (10.34%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (3.45%) Grafana
5 1 (3.45%) Terraform
5 1 (3.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Bloomberg
2 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 5 (17.24%) Citrix
3 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 4 (13.79%) Dynatrace
4 4 (13.79%) ION Trading
5 3 (10.34%) Refinitiv
5 3 (10.34%) TIBCO
5 3 (10.34%) Tradeweb
6 2 (6.90%) Cisco
7 1 (3.45%) Calypso
7 1 (3.45%) CQG
7 1 (3.45%) Databricks
7 1 (3.45%) Eze Software Group
7 1 (3.45%) Murex
7 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.45%) Sophis
7 1 (3.45%) Splunk
7 1 (3.45%) Trayport