RMDS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Reuters Market Data System (RMDS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for RMDS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RMDS over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RMDS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £1,000 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +22.73%

All Business Application Skills
UK excluding London

RMDS is in the Business Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,165 1,342 1,459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.69% 5.74% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 915 968
10th Percentile £313 £325 £352
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +2.33% +8.42%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £623
90th Percentile £725 £724 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 33 36
10th Percentile £14.71 £28.94 £15.84
25th Percentile £22.00 £46.25 £19.26
Median hourly rate £41.23 £50.00 £23.53
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +112.54% -5.90%
75th Percentile £57.41 £70.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £81.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.33 £49.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.70% +40.00% -4.76%

RMDS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing RMDS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for RMDS in the UK excluding London

RMDS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RMDS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for RMDS in the UK excluding London

RMDS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RMDS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Midlands - 2 £800 -
West Midlands - 1 £800 -
East Midlands - 1 £800 -
RMDS
UK

RMDS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Market Data Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper