Tick Data Contract Job Trends in London

Tick Data (Tick Database)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Tick Data 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 368 - 431
Rank change year-on-year - - +143
Contract jobs citing Tick Data 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.022% - 0.005%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.10% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £655 - -
25th Percentile £669 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £713 - -
75th Percentile £729 - -
90th Percentile £730 - -
England median daily rate £713 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +25.98%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Tick Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,893 3,413 3,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.18% 21.80% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,001 2,411 2,806
10th Percentile £368 £363 £384
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.19
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.00 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -1.16% -17.22%
75th Percentile £66.56 £59.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -3.41%

Tick Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Tick Data job vacancy trend in London

Tick Data
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Tick Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Tick Data

Tick Data
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 Tick Data 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 £670 - 4
Tick Data
England

Tick Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) KDB
1 1 (33.33%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Fidessa Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) KDB Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Equities
2 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Order Management
1 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Quantitative Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Solace