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 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 378 429
Rank change year-on-year +16 +51 +142
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 9 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.066% 0.019% 0.015%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.71% 0.25% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +25.00% -32.07%
75th Percentile £788 £644 -
90th Percentile - £648 -
England median daily rate £725 £625 £500
% change year-on-year +16.00% +25.00% -32.07%

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 1,270 1,178 1,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.30% 7.52% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 670 888
10th Percentile £325 £375 £362
25th Percentile £427 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -0.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £713
90th Percentile £825 £820 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 17
10th Percentile £23.83 £24.59 £24.00
25th Percentile £32.71 £29.22 £40.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -33.82% +241.43%
75th Percentile £64.06 £80.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £98.08 £93.75
England median hourly rate £41.86 £40.33 £56.49
% change year-on-year +3.79% -28.62% +41.23%

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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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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 1 November 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 8 (88.89%) Aladdin
2 4 (44.44%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (44.44%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (77.78%) Front Office
2 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
3 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Business Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Business Manager
1 4 (44.44%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) C# Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) .NET
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Core
1 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
1 4 (44.44%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (44.44%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (44.44%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Derivative
1 8 (88.89%) Fixed Income
2 7 (77.78%) Hedge funds
3 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (44.44%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (44.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Portfolio Management
3 4 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 4 (44.44%) Business Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Data Mapping
3 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Investment Management
3 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 4 (44.44%) Multithreaded Programming
3 4 (44.44%) Multithreading
3 4 (44.44%) Order Management
4 3 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) API Development
5 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (11.11%) Fund Management
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) BISAM
1 4 (44.44%) Calypso
1 4 (44.44%) Charles River
1 4 (44.44%) Portware
1 4 (44.44%) SimCorp
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft