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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 578 661
Rank change year-on-year +76 +83 +201
Contract jobs citing Calypso 37 12 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.028% 0.043%
As % of the Vendors category 0.25% 0.064% 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 4 10
10th Percentile £592 £615 £508
25th Percentile £650 £638 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £700 £645
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +8.53% -7.86%
75th Percentile £788 £775 £700
90th Percentile - - £849
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £700

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 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

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 3 July 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 3 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 3 July 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 +82 36 £725 +3.57% 17
London +71 36 £725 +3.57% 17
Work from Home +52 23 £725 -3.33% 2

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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 19 (51.35%) Aladdin
1 19 (51.35%) thinkFolio
2 1 (2.70%) Markit EDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Data Mart
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) MS Access
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Ant
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
General
1 29 (78.38%) Finance
2 22 (59.46%) Front Office
3 6 (16.22%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Social Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Back Office
7 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) Business Analyst
2 21 (56.76%) Analyst
3 19 (51.35%) Business Manager
3 19 (51.35%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Consultant
5 3 (8.11%) Murex Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Risk Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.70%) Access Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Implementation Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Monitoring Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Report Specialist
7 1 (2.70%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (2.70%) Kafka
1 1 (2.70%) Spring
1 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (59.46%) Derivative
1 22 (59.46%) Fixed Income
2 19 (51.35%) Hedge funds
2 19 (51.35%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.11%) Credit Risk
3 3 (8.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (8.11%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.70%) DTCC
4 1 (2.70%) Equities
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (62.16%) Agile
2 20 (54.05%) Business Analysis
3 19 (51.35%) Asset Management
3 19 (51.35%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (51.35%) Data Mapping
3 19 (51.35%) Investment Management
3 19 (51.35%) Portfolio Management
4 4 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.11%) Collateral Management
5 3 (8.11%) Migration
5 3 (8.11%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (5.41%) Economics
6 2 (5.41%) Project Management
6 2 (5.41%) Quantitative Risk Management
6 2 (5.41%) Regression Testing
6 2 (5.41%) Risk Management
6 2 (5.41%) Software Engineering
6 2 (5.41%) Stress Testing
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) SQL
2 21 (56.76%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.41%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (10.81%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) CFA
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) CBAP
3 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Basel III
2 3 (8.11%) Basel II
3 1 (2.70%) FINRA
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Control-M
2 1 (2.70%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) BISAM
1 19 (51.35%) Charles River
1 19 (51.35%) SimCorp
2 7 (18.92%) Murex
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco
5 1 (2.70%) HP
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow