Thomson Reuters DACS Contract Job Trends in London

Thomson Reuters Data Access Control System (DACS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Thomson Reuters DACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 387 432
Rank change year-on-year +30 +45 +149
Contract jobs citing Thomson Reuters DACS 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.19% 0.043% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £609 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £500 £313
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +60.00% -56.90%
75th Percentile £725 - £444
90th Percentile - - £455
England median daily rate £700 £200 £313
% change year-on-year +250.00% -36.00% -56.90%

All Systems Management Skills
London

Thomson Reuters DACS falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,115 2,322 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.79% 14.52% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,552 2,413
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.94% -6.31%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £700
90th Percentile £716 £750 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 36
10th Percentile £21.45 - £25.71
25th Percentile £26.19 £23.80 £26.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £27.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.04% -55.00% +150.94%
75th Percentile £61.44 £61.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £63.95 £102.40 £87.03
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -9.33% -28.57% +119.57%

Thomson Reuters DACS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Thomson Reuters DACS job vacancy trend in London

Thomson Reuters DACS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thomson Reuters DACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thomson Reuters DACS

Thomson Reuters DACS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Thomson Reuters DACS in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Thomson Reuters DACS in London

Thomson Reuters DACS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thomson Reuters DACS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Thomson Reuters DACS

Thomson Reuters DACS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) KDB
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Front Office
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Market Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Derivative
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) EMIR
1 3 (75.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (100.00%) Refinitiv
2 3 (75.00%) NYFIX