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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 - 419
Rank change year-on-year - - +151
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% - 0.010%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.31% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
England median daily rate £700 - -

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 1,298 1,207 1,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.15% 7.62% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 701 933
10th Percentile £334 £385 £366
25th Percentile £425 £495 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £713
90th Percentile £834 £808 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 15
10th Percentile £26.08 £24.59 £28.70
25th Percentile £36.95 £29.22 £61.38
Median hourly rate £42.50 £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% -33.82% +178.69%
75th Percentile £64.69 £80.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £92.25 - £91.25
England median hourly rate £45.99 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.19% -20.34% +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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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 29 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 4 (100.00%) Aladdin
1 4 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Derivative
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) Order Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Portware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft