Sophis Contract Job Trends

Sophis
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Sophis products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Sophis over the 6 months leading up to 15 December 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 Misys FusionCapital Sophis.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 551 607
Rank change year-on-year -29 +56 +195
Contract jobs citing Sophis 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.006% 0.009%
As % of the Vendors category 0.035% 0.013% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £691 £623 -
25th Percentile - £638 £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £1,000 £675 £675
Median % change year-on-year +48.15% - -6.90%
75th Percentile - £713 £713
90th Percentile - £728 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Sophis 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 17,261 15,639 20,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.36% 45.61% 45.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,977 9,327 12,754
10th Percentile £293 £285 £253
25th Percentile £408 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £497 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.70% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 867 472 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.67
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%
75th Percentile £44.84 £61.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% -40.42% +100.00%

Sophis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sophis job vacancy trend in the UK

Sophis
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Sophis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sophis over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sophis in the UK

Sophis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Sophis
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 Sophis within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -16 6 £1,000 +48.15%
England -29 6 £1,000 +48.15%

Sophis
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%) MQSeries
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
1 6 (100.00%) Front Office
2 5 (83.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Quantitative Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Derivative
1 6 (100.00%) Equities
1 6 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (83.33%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (83.33%) Mathematics
1 5 (83.33%) Physics
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
2 1 (16.67%) Runbook
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
1 1 (16.67%) Calypso
1 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (16.67%) Murex
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Reuters
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk