Markit EDM Contract Job Trends

Markit Enterprise Data Management (formerly Cadis)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Markit EDM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 585 - 603
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing Markit EDM 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% - 0.009%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.20% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile - - £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.57%
75th Percentile - - £663
90th Percentile - - £685
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

All Business Application Skills
UK

Markit EDM 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 3,050 2,376 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.81% 7.64% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 1,259 2,010
10th Percentile £358 £375 £375
25th Percentile £450 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £750 £778 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 56 122
10th Percentile £20.00 £22.27 £16.45
25th Percentile £32.81 £34.06 £22.13
Median hourly rate £50.68 £53.88 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +13.42% +27.35%
75th Percentile £70.94 £77.81 £60.19
90th Percentile £90.09 £86.00 £86.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £55.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.26% +16.32% +27.35%

Markit EDM
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Markit EDM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Markit EDM job vacancy trend in the UK

Markit EDM
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Markit EDM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Markit EDM

Markit EDM
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Markit EDM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Markit EDM

Markit EDM
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Markit EDM within the UK over the 6 months to 7 February 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 - 6 £615 - 1
England - 6 £615 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £615 -

Markit EDM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Aladdin
1 2 (33.33%) Eagle PACE
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Front Office
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Report Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Implementation Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Market Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Project Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Project Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Credit Risk
1 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
1 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Asset Management
2 5 (83.33%) Data Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Data Management
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Data Lineage
4 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
4 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Data Reconciliation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Data Management
5 2 (33.33%) Fund Accounting
5 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) GoldenSource
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) Refinitiv