Straight-Through Processing Contracts

Straight-Through Processing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Straight-Through Processing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Straight-Through Processing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 579 703
Rank change year-on-year +68 +124 +141
Contract jobs citing Straight-Through Processing 9 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.008% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £605 £605 £489
25th Percentile £639 £613 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £863 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £988 £713 -
90th Percentile £1,044 £735 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 - £494
% change year-on-year - - +79.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Straight-Through Processing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Straight-Through Processing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Straight-Through Processing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Straight-Through Processing in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Straight-Through Processing.

Daily rate trend for Straight-Through Processing in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Straight-Through Processing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Straight-Through Processing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Straight-Through Processing.

Hourly rate trend for Straight-Through Processing in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Straight-Through Processing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +64 9 £863 +32.69% 6
London +44 7 £975 +62.50% 4
Work from Home +42 2 £600 - 3
UK excluding London - 2 £610 - 2
North of England - 1 £610 -
Yorkshire - 1 £610 -
South West - 1 - -

Straight-Through Processing
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) Pendo
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Gradle
2 1 (11.11%) HP UFT
2 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Maven
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Head of Analytics
1 3 (33.33%) Head of Data Analytics
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Process Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
1 2 (22.22%) J2SE
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Business Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
3 3 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 3 (33.33%) Balanced Scorecard
3 3 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scorecard
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (22.22%) Electronic Trading
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) Wallstreet Suite