thinkFolio Contracts

Markit thinkFolio
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring thinkFolio skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited thinkFolio over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 595 702
Rank change year-on-year +90 +107 +131
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 14 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.011% 0.018%
As % of the Business Applications category 0.58% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 11
10th Percentile - - £663
25th Percentile £663 £275 £731
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £463 £763
Median % change year-on-year +56.76% -39.34% +8.93%
75th Percentile £788 £641 £794
90th Percentile - £646 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Business Application Skills
UK

thinkFolio 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 2,403 3,240 3,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.22% 7.43% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,893 2,192
10th Percentile £400 £363 £363
25th Percentile £475 £463 £457
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 £527
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 110 56
10th Percentile £22.27 £14.71 £21.25
25th Percentile £40.00 £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 £59.82 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £65.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £45.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -8.16% +108.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for thinkFolio in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for thinkFolio in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing thinkFolio within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +72 14 £725 +56.76% 6
London +44 14 £725 +56.76% 6
Work from Home - 14 £725 -

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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 14 (100.00%) Aladdin
General
1 14 (100.00%) Finance
1 14 (100.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Analyst
1 14 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 14 (100.00%) Business Manager
1 14 (100.00%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Derivative
1 14 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 14 (100.00%) Hedge funds
1 14 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 14 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 14 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 14 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 14 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) BISAM
1 14 (100.00%) Calypso
1 14 (100.00%) Charles River
1 14 (100.00%) SimCorp