Calypso Contracts

Calypso
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Calypso products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Calypso over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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 Calypso Technology.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 565 689
Rank change year-on-year +77 +124 +152
Contract jobs citing Calypso 32 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.039% 0.049%
As % of the Vendors category 0.23% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 4 15
10th Percentile £473 £638 £553
25th Percentile £625 £694 £616
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £750 £675
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £713
90th Percentile - - £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £750 £700
% change year-on-year -16.67% +7.14% -

All Vendors
UK

Calypso 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,893 18,473 25,523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.46% 42.41% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,711 11,449 17,111
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £517 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £628 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 1,101 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.61 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%

Calypso
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Calypso as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Calypso in the UK

Calypso
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Calypso.

Daily rate trend for Calypso in the UK

Calypso
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Calypso over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Calypso in the UK

Calypso
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Calypso.

Hourly rate trend for Calypso in the UK

Calypso
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Calypso within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +72 29 £725 -3.33% 6
London +54 29 £725 -3.33% 6
Work from Home +54 19 £725 -3.33% 1
UK excluding London +64 2 £625 -16.67% 2
Scotland - 2 £625 -

Calypso
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Aladdin
1 14 (43.75%) thinkFolio
2 2 (6.25%) Kondor
3 1 (3.13%) Fidessa
3 1 (3.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 3 (9.38%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Mart
2 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.13%) MS Access
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Ant
General
1 25 (78.13%) Finance
2 17 (53.13%) Front Office
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Analyst
2 16 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 14 (43.75%) Business Manager
3 14 (43.75%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Murex Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Risk Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Test Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.13%) Access Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Calypso Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Equity Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Implementation Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Monitoring Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Product Manager
6 1 (3.13%) Report Specialist
6 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Derivative
2 15 (46.88%) Fixed Income
3 14 (43.75%) Hedge funds
3 14 (43.75%) Onboarding
4 3 (9.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (6.25%) Credit Risk
5 2 (6.25%) Market Risk
5 2 (6.25%) Wiki
6 1 (3.13%) Equities
6 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (43.75%) Asset Management
2 14 (43.75%) Business Analysis
2 14 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (43.75%) Data Mapping
2 14 (43.75%) Investment Management
2 14 (43.75%) Portfolio Management
3 3 (9.38%) DevOps
3 3 (9.38%) Migration
3 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (6.25%) Economics
4 2 (6.25%) Quantitative Risk Management
4 2 (6.25%) Regression Testing
4 2 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
4 2 (6.25%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering
4 2 (6.25%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (6.25%) Use Case
4 2 (6.25%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) Python
3 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) CFA
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Basel III
2 2 (6.25%) Basel II
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Control-M
2 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) BISAM
1 14 (43.75%) Charles River
1 14 (43.75%) SimCorp
2 7 (21.88%) Murex
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow