Financial Products Markup Language (FpML)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for FpML skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited FpML over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 560 672 814
Rank change year-on-year +112 +142 -156
Contract jobs citing FpML 22 40 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.066% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.28% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 33
10th Percentile £545 £490 £485
25th Percentile £575 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £750
90th Percentile £725 £1,013 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

FpML 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 8,945 14,054 24,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.36% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,227 10,256 17,811
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £656
90th Percentile £765 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 154 245
10th Percentile £20.77 £30.23 £21.40
25th Percentile £37.63 £46.56 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.78 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%

FpML
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for FpML in the UK

FpML
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing FpML over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for FpML in the UK

FpML
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 FpML within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +105 21 £625 +4.17% 2
London +84 21 £625 +4.17% 2
Work from Home +117 4 £645 -30.27%

FpML
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 (9.09%) MQSeries
2 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Apigee
1 1 (4.55%) AWS
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (4.55%) Azure
1 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
1 1 (4.55%) SaaS
1 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Mart
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Back Office
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Front Office
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Modeller
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Integration Specialist
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Senior Data Modeller
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Finance Modeller
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Murex Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) XML
2 8 (36.36%) Spring
3 6 (27.27%) XML Schema
4 5 (22.73%) RAML
4 5 (22.73%) REST
4 5 (22.73%) Swagger
5 4 (18.18%) XSD
6 2 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (9.09%) Middleware
7 1 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (4.55%) Apache Camel
7 1 (4.55%) JAXB
7 1 (4.55%) Murex MxML
7 1 (4.55%) Node.js
7 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
7 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.55%) SOAP
7 1 (4.55%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.09%) Derivative
2 2 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) DTCC
3 1 (4.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 4 (18.18%) API Design
3 4 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (18.18%) Logical Data Model
3 4 (18.18%) SDLC
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Agile
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 2 (9.09%) Domain Models
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Security Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
5 2 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.55%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.55%) Functional Programming
6 1 (4.55%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (4.55%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) IBM
2 8 (36.36%) MuleSoft
3 7 (31.82%) Oracle
4 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 6 (27.27%) Salesforce
4 6 (27.27%) SAP
5 3 (13.64%) Murex
6 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.55%) Google
7 1 (4.55%) WSO2