Reuters Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Reuters
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring knowledge or experience of Reuters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reuters over the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, 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 Reuters Group PLC.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs citing Reuters 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 3.64% - 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 5.71% - 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £472
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.57%
East London median daily rate - - £349
% change year-on-year - - -50.21%

All Vendors
Tower Hamlets

Reuters 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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 35 45 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 63.64% 66.18% 45.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 70
10th Percentile £371 £450 £450
25th Percentile £514 £495 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -1.82%
75th Percentile £749 £630 £621
90th Percentile £1,000 £650 £660
East London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -37.94%

Reuters
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Reuters relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Reuters job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Reuters
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reuters.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reuters

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Hourly Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reuters.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Reuters

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Reuters within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 16 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
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Reuters
East London

Reuters
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 2 (100.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DMZ
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Front Office
1 2 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Help Desk Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Help Desk Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Help Desk Support
1 2 (100.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Help Desk Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft