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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 - 390
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing Tick Data 20 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% - 0.006%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.61% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile £629 - -
25th Percentile £645 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £900 - -
90th Percentile £1,000 - -
England median daily rate £825 - -

All Database & BI 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 3,280 2,799 3,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.50% 22.31% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,247 1,980 2,833
10th Percentile £361 £375 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £553 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -1.69% -2.17%
75th Percentile £634 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 37
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.14 £28.03 £25.79
Median hourly rate £50.00 £39.31 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.21% -21.39% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62.63 £56.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.50 £64.73
England median hourly rate £47.54 £32.05 £40.13
% change year-on-year +48.33% -20.12% -30.87%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tick Data in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tick Data in London

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 May 2026. 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 - 5 £670 - 2
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 5 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) KDB
2 13 (65.00%) Kdb+
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) JIRA
1 6 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (25.00%) Maven
3 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 8 (40.00%) KDB Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Senior
4 6 (30.00%) Java Developer
5 5 (25.00%) Fidessa Developer
6 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
7 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (10.00%) Real Time Engineer
8 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 2 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 1 (5.00%) Algorithm Engineer
9 1 (5.00%) Lead
9 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Market Data Developer
9 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Equities
2 5 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (40.00%) Analytics
3 7 (35.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (30.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 6 (30.00%) Data Ingestion
5 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Order Management
5 5 (25.00%) Use Case
6 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.00%) Systematic Trading
7 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
9 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
9 1 (5.00%) Clean Code
9 1 (5.00%) High Availability
9 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning
9 1 (5.00%) Pattern Recognition
9 1 (5.00%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Korn
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Solace