PORTIA Contract Job Trends

SS&C PORTIA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring PORTIA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 593 541 -
Rank change year-on-year -52 - -
Contract jobs citing PORTIA 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.009% -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.063% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

PORTIA 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 3,158 2,537 3,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.63% 7.42% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,821 1,354 1,987
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £660 £665 £674
90th Percentile £760 £756 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 55 88
10th Percentile £18.76 £22.27 £30.00
25th Percentile £29.18 £30.21 £49.00
Median hourly rate £41.86 £41.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -26.54% +51.45%
75th Percentile £81.00 £66.25 £80.00
90th Percentile £91.19 £80.75 £89.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £46.18 £56.49
% change year-on-year +16.93% -18.25% +51.45%

PORTIA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

PORTIA job vacancy trend in the UK

PORTIA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PORTIA

PORTIA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing PORTIA

PORTIA
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 PORTIA within the UK over the 6 months to 18 December 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 2 £400 -20.00%
England -39 2 £400 -20.00%

PORTIA
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Order Management
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Interpretation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Charles River
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) SimCorp