Summit Contracts

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Summit skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Summit 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 515 579 681
Rank change year-on-year +64 +102 +169
Contract jobs citing Summit 5 3 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.007% 0.062%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.21% 0.093% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 12
10th Percentile £386 £509 £466
25th Percentile £441 £529 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.32% +5.58%
75th Percentile £641 £591 £596
90th Percentile £699 £593 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

Summit 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 2,404 3,235 3,808
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.21% 7.43% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,884 2,189
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £794
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £529
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.66% +0.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 112 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £38.58 £21.25 £29.21
Median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% +35.71%
75th Percentile £77.50 £59.94 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £43.75 £49.00
% change year-on-year +37.14% -10.71% +108.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Summit in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Summit.

Daily rate trend for Summit in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Summit over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Summit in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Summit.

Hourly rate trend for Summit in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Summit 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 +58 4 £538 -6.52% 8
UK excluding London - 3 £350 - 2
London +37 2 £725 +26.09% 6
Work from Home +41 1 £725 +22.05% 5
Midlands - 1 - -
South West - 1 £350 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Back Office
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Equity Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Product Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Equities
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) ETL
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Migration
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Workshops
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) EMIR
1 1 (20.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Murex
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Calypso
2 1 (20.00%) Tradeweb