CQG Contracts

CQG
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of CQG products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CQG 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 CQG, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CQG 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.029% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £619 - -
90th Percentile £630 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

CQG 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%

CQG
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CQG in the UK

CQG
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CQG in the UK

CQG
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CQG in the UK

CQG
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 CQG 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 - 4 £550 - 1
London - 4 £550 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £625 -

CQG
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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (75.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (75.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) FIX Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) FIX Support Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (75.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Support Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (25.00%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) FIX Specialist
4 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (25.00%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (25.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (25.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Eurex
2 2 (50.00%) Equities
2 2 (50.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (25.00%) Bitcoin
3 1 (25.00%) Derivative
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) CentOS
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Rocky
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) Debian
3 1 (25.00%) Fedora
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
3 1 (25.00%) SUSE
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (75.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) CRUD
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) KYC
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Bash
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) EMIR
1 1 (25.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Rundeck
1 3 (75.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 4 (100.00%) Reuters
2 3 (75.00%) Patsystems
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (75.00%) Trayport
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle