xMatters Contract Job Trends in London

xMatters
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of xMatters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited xMatters over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within xMatters, Inc.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 - 406
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing xMatters 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - 0.006%
As % of the Vendors category 0.025% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £708 -
% change year-on-year -22.32% - -

All Vendors
London

xMatters falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,007 5,951 7,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 45.42% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,855 5,075
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £764 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 112 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.91 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.38 £22.50 £17.87
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +18.07% -21.34%
75th Percentile £57.34 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%

xMatters
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

xMatters job vacancy trend in London

xMatters
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing xMatters.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing xMatters

xMatters
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk