TM Forum Contract Job Trends in London

TM Forum
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TM Forum in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TM Forum over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 343 398
Rank change year-on-year -40 +55 +153
Contract jobs citing TM Forum 2 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.058% 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.037% 0.17% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £428 £420 £526
25th Percentile £469 £450 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -14.89% -16.90%
75th Percentile £606 - £622
90th Percentile £648 - £639
England median daily rate £475 £500 £588
% change year-on-year -5.00% -14.89% -16.90%

All Generic Skills
London

TM Forum falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,388 4,741 6,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.02% 34.22% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,488 3,002 4,278
10th Percentile £350 £325 £314
25th Percentile £434 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% -1.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £791 £850 £813
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 59 124
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.85 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.58 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +19.66% -2.50%
75th Percentile £47.00 £59.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £64.86
England median hourly rate £28.13 £37.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -23.99% -3.03% +52.62%

TM Forum
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

TM Forum job vacancy trend in London

TM Forum
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TM Forum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing TM Forum

TM Forum
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TM Forum in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TM Forum in London

TM Forum
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 TM Forum within the London region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
West London -16 1 £675 +35.00%
TM Forum
England

TM Forum
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 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) BSS Architect
2 1 (50.00%) OSS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Order Management
2 1 (50.00%) BPMN
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Python