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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 - 389
Rank change year-on-year - - +149
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% - 0.011%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.16% - 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 - -

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 1,272 1,074 1,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.85% 7.65% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 625 829
10th Percentile £358 £400 £385
25th Percentile £450 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £681 £700 £720
90th Percentile £825 £817 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 17
10th Percentile £22.50 - £15.92
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £40.25
Median hourly rate £40.49 £33.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -61.18% +142.86%
75th Percentile £57.75 £80.75 £86.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.93% -18.25% +56.27%

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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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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 2 (100.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (50.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Back Office
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Order Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreaded Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (50.00%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Portware
2 1 (50.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (50.00%) Charles River