FIDO Alliance (FIDO2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FIDO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FIDO over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 584 677 856
Rank change year-on-year +93 +179 -174
Contract jobs citing FIDO 2 21 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.036% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.022% 0.16% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 5
10th Percentile - £450 £508
25th Percentile - £556 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £603 £522
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +15.42% -11.15%
75th Percentile - £623 £600
90th Percentile - £641 £660
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £600
% change year-on-year - - +12.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FIDO is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,917 13,508 23,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.73% 23.22% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,847 17,358
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 156 240
10th Percentile £21.25 £30.38 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.60
90th Percentile £74.85 £81.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +28.00% +11.11%

FIDO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FIDO in the UK

FIDO
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FIDO within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Work from Home +109 2 £550 -3.51%

FIDO
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 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Stripe
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Payments Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Contactless
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Wallet
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Design
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) B2B
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Banking
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Fraud Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (100.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) PayPal