Plaid Contract Job Trends

Plaid
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Plaid products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Plaid over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Plaid, Inc.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 - 649
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Plaid 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% - 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Plaid falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,418 16,861 22,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 44.36% 44.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,448 10,081 14,389
10th Percentile £275 £285 £263
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 800 656 659
10th Percentile £14.69 £14.46 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.62 £18.66
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -30.34% +86.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.84 £64.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.10 £30.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -29.67% -29.82% +113.75%

Plaid
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Plaid in the UK

Plaid
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 Plaid within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 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
London - 1 £325 - 3
England - 1 £325 - 5

Plaid
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Swift