FactSet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of FactSet products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FactSet over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within FactSet Research Systems, Inc.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 709 842
Rank change year-on-year +120 +133 -164
Contract jobs citing FactSet 5 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.012% 0.015%
As % of the Vendors category 0.027% 0.027% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 9
10th Percentile £590 £258 £205
25th Percentile £613 £325 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £650 £260
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +150.00% -25.71%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £738
90th Percentile £760 £815 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate - £663 £219
% change year-on-year - +202.86% -53.95%

All Vendors
UK

FactSet is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,599 35,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.57% 42.88% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 17,163 23,490
10th Percentile £263 £273 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £628 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 691 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.03 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.16
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% +0.85%

FactSet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FactSet in the UK

FactSet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FactSet in the UK

FactSet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FactSet over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FactSet in the UK

FactSet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for FactSet in the UK

FactSet
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 FactSet within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +115 5 £675 +3.85% 4
London +108 4 £675 +92.86% 3
Work from Home +127 2 £750 +114.29% 1

FactSet
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Application Support Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Support
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FIX Protocol
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Data Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (20.00%) Charles River
1 1 (20.00%) Reuters
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase