Tick Data Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Tick Data (Tick Database)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Tick Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Tick Data 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.016% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £730 - -
25th Percentile £756 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile £840 - -
UK median daily rate £718 - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,591 2,228 2,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.08% 15.08% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 1,402 1,985
10th Percentile £310 £313 £306
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 51 94
10th Percentile £21.38 £18.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £30.94 £22.60 £20.78
Median hourly rate £58.75 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +113.64% -40.45% -6.71%
75th Percentile £75.45 £64.73 £66.88
90th Percentile £84.70 £66.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £31.55 £46.18
% change year-on-year +58.50% -31.69% -12.04%

Tick Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Tick Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Tick Data job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Tick Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tick Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tick Data in the UK excluding London

Tick Data
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 Tick Data within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Scotland - 2 £763 - 3
South East - 1 £850 - 2
Tick Data
UK

Tick Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Qualitative Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Quantitative Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Trading
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Market Making
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Systematic Trading
1 3 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL