Summit Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Summit skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 542 592
Rank change year-on-year -39 +50 +181
Contract jobs citing Summit 3 2 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.029%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.094% 0.079% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 13
10th Percentile £535 - £375
25th Percentile £580 £825 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £850 £495
Median % change year-on-year -22.35% +71.72% -12.78%
75th Percentile £670 £875 £585
90th Percentile £673 - £593
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400

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 3,181 2,537 3,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.64% 7.42% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,835 1,354 1,987
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £661 £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 69 55 88
10th Percentile £18.80 £22.27 £30.00
25th Percentile £26.72 £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 £90.82 £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%

Summit
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Summit job vacancy trend in the UK

Summit
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Summit
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Summit over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Summit in the UK

Summit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Summit
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 Summit within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 -9 3 £660 -22.35% 4
England -27 3 £660 -22.35% 4

Summit
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 (33.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Banking
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Credit Risk
1 1 (33.33%) Derivative
1 1 (33.33%) DTCC
1 1 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Process Mapping
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) ERP
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Use Case
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) EMIR
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithmics
1 1 (33.33%) Bloomberg
1 1 (33.33%) Murex
1 1 (33.33%) Temenos
1 1 (33.33%) Wolters Kluwer