Fidessa Contracts

ION Fidessa
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Fidessa skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Fidessa over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 572 703
Rank change year-on-year +57 +131 +132
Contract jobs citing Fidessa 5 10 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.023% 0.025%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.21% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile - £550 £380
25th Percentile £500 £563 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +0.42%
75th Percentile £619 £769 £631
90th Percentile £630 £800 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Fidessa falls under the Business Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 2,404 3,235 3,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.21% 7.43% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,884 2,189
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £529
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.66% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 112 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £38.58 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.94 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +37.14% -10.71% +108.29%

Fidessa
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Fidessa in the UK

Fidessa
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Fidessa in the UK

Fidessa
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Fidessa in the UK

Fidessa
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 Fidessa 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 +52 4 £550 -26.67% 9
London +33 4 £550 -26.67% 9
Work from Home +40 1 £625 -7.41% 5
UK excluding London - 1 - - 3
Scotland - 1 - -

Fidessa
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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) FIX Connectivity
1 3 (60.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) FIX Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) FIX Support Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Linux Support
2 3 (60.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Support Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Applications Support Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Equity Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) FIX Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (20.00%) Software Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Equities
1 3 (60.00%) Eurex
2 2 (40.00%) Derivative
2 2 (40.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (20.00%) Bitcoin
3 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) CentOS
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Rocky
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Debian
3 1 (20.00%) Fedora
3 1 (20.00%) Solaris
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) Electronic Trading
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) CRUD
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) KYC
4 1 (20.00%) MVC
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EMIR
1 1 (20.00%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Rundeck
1 3 (60.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Bloomberg
1 4 (80.00%) CQG
1 4 (80.00%) ION Trading
1 4 (80.00%) Reuters
2 3 (60.00%) Patsystems
2 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (60.00%) Trayport
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) Calypso
4 1 (20.00%) Murex