thinkFolio Contract Job Trends in London

Markit thinkFolio
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring thinkFolio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 - 407
Rank change year-on-year - - +157
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.035% - 0.010%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.38% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £441 - -
25th Percentile £484 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £674 - -
England median daily rate £563 - -

All Business Application Skills
London

thinkFolio falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,324 1,171 1,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 7.51% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 682 921
10th Percentile £350 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% -2.36%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £830 £807 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 15
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.59 £28.70
25th Percentile £38.01 £29.22 £61.38
Median hourly rate £44.50 £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.89% -33.82% +206.31%
75th Percentile £65.63 £80.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £91.25
England median hourly rate £47.48 £47.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +0.63% -16.48% +61.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

thinkFolio job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing thinkFolio

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing thinkFolio in London over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for thinkFolio 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 thinkFolio within the London region over the 6 months to 9 December 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 - 1 £700 -
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England

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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 5 (100.00%) Fidessa
2 4 (80.00%) Aladdin
3 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 4 (80.00%) Front Office
2 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) Back Office
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (80.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (80.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (80.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (80.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (80.00%) Derivative
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (80.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (60.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Order Management
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 4 (80.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (20.00%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Portware
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Charles River
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft