Market Data Specialist Contract Job Trends

Market Data Specialist
UK

The median Market Data Specialist daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Market Data Specialist 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 44,606 26,623 39,417
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.40% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,281 17,328 25,680
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.31%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,914 1,023 2,675
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.36 £18.17 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.63% -22.88% -18.89%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +65.90% -32.19% -5.88%

Market Data Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Market Data Specialist' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Market Data Specialist job vacancy trend in the UK

Market Data Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Market Data Specialist job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Market Data Specialist job vacancies in the UK

Market Data Specialist
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Data Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 22 May 2026. 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
London - 3 £450 -
England - 3 £450 -

Market Data Specialist Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 22 May 2026, Market Data Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Market Data Specialist in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (100.00%) Curve Construction
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Refinitiv
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt

Market Data Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 3 (100.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) API Design
1 3 (100.00%) Curve Construction
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 3 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (100.00%) Refinitiv